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  1. I was able to get into the Alaska Geographic field course, Paleontology in Denali with a short notice cancelation this month. I had done this course two years ago and throughly enjoyed the experience. During he first evening introductions I mentioned I had attended 2 years ago and immediately was teased that I had failed the last time and was back again, LOL. Dr. Pat Druckenmiller, the director of The Museum of the North was the instructor again and was most knowledgeable giving a background lecture of the areas geology and how the dinosaur tracks could have formed. He is holding a likely front foot track from a hadrosaur. Possible pterosaur track. Hadrosaur track. Same track with boot for scale. Ceratopsian likely hind foot track. Another likely track. Some of the attendees looking at another hadrosaur track. One of the first group of tracks identified in the park was named the Dinosaur Dance Floor pictured here, Closer look at the tracks in situ. Making a peal of the possible pterosaur track. Fossilized wood. Metasequoia leaf impression and fossil wood. The snow was late leaving this year with the wild flowers just starting to bloom. We saw two family groups of bears on the trip from the best possible location, sitting in the van while driving the road. This is all that is left of a moose calf after it became a bear snack. It is a hungry world up here. A winter killed Dall sheep skull. I aged the ram at 11 years old which is about as long as they live. A brown bear was digging up ground squirrels here and farther up the valley we explored. A view from the second day hike with snow still present. BTW I passed the course this year by finding a nice pair of Dino tracks:)
  2. AK hiker

    Northern Spain Trip

    Itzurun Beach Interpretation Sign There was 1/2 mile of these exposed sedimentary layers along this beach with the K-T boundary pointed out along the cliff trail. Fossil gastropods at Arnica Beach in the soils above the sedimentary deposits. Echanoid Coral? Arrived at high tide. Beach the following morning at Low tide so could explore. Just amazing land forms sculpted by the sea!!! Playa da Pendueles Jurassic Museum of Asturias From the museum interpretation signs I got the locations of some of the local dinosaur track sites. My wife was nice to entertain me for two of these track sites. As always thanks to others for sharing their paleo adventures.
  3. I was able to get out for the first mountain hike this season recently after being held back due to storms. The weather had been too hot the last several weeks to get out in the mountains due to afternoon thunderstorms building up making it hazardous for hiking and to leave an aircraft exposed at 5,000’ elevation. Most of the large pictured ammonites are Pachydiscus sp. so here we go, a photo trip in the Matanuska Formation, Member 3. Yes, it is as steep as it looks. Not for the faint of heart. This particular ammonite has been exposed for three seasons now and too steep to get a closer view. One of my old friends:) A new ammonite from the spring snow melt erosion. This concretion has 4 ammonites present in it. Another “Old Friend”, each season gets a little most erosion around it and subsequent exposures. The suture pattern and description matches Pachydiscus kamishakensis. Where there is one often will be more in close proximity. Pelecypods are present in great abundance but most are fragmented. One of the few pelecypods mostly intact. Another old friend, 26” peleycpod. I have posted pictures of the giant clam previously. I’m going clam digging tomorrow and one like this would do for a years worth of chowder. I have been mainly focused on looking at ammonites and taking my time on this trip started noticing other fossils. This is a piece of a baculite imbedded in a concretion. Once I noticed this one I saw more similar smaller baculite fragments. The backseat passenger looking at an area where belamites occur. The alpine flowers were out in full bloom. Back to the Red and White magic carpet ride to fly home.
  4. I got a weather window and some time to get out for a hike to the Talkeetna Mountains near my home recently. It is an hour long flight to where I went this time and beautiful scenery on the way there. The Nelchina caribou heard uses this area in the spring through fall with their trails from eons use evident in some areas like this mountain. Alaska’s state flower is the Forget Me Knot with many in full bloom. This is at 5,000 foot elevation and the alpine flowers are just now greening up. The caribou trails are nice to use if they happen to be where you are going. Bones from a likely wolf killed caribou. The formation in the background has abundant belemnites. The spring melt with water erosion moves lots of the loose grey mudstone exposing concretions with weathering, some fracture open. This large clam was laying on the bottom and next flood will be gone. Fossil Dog (Kobuk) in action trying to get a parka squirrel who had been chipping at him. Entertaining but really we need to keep hiking as we’re 4 miles from the plane and have not gotten to where I wanted to look at another exposure. D2DCA8DF-76FF-46C0-92B0-6D987105F3A9.MOV The size if some of the ammonites is impressive with these being chunks at the bottom of the exposure I was hiking too. Kobuk is carrying my water which is something he can’t break in his pack. Time to turn around and disappointed as this exposure had looked promising for the bigger ammonites with the float I was seeing in the bottom. On the way back went a different way and found some small gastropods. These slabs of clams were mixed in with conglomerate aggregate and I have seen these type of fossils in several other locations near by. Mixture of fossils and rounded rock. The weather really improved for the flight home making for another spectacular trip. The Talkeetna Mountain in the foreground and Chugach Mountains in the background. Rock glacier is in Hicks Creek valley. Matanuska Glacier The area hiked on this trip is in Cretaceous rocks. There are Jurassic exposures in the Talkeetna Mountains and will get to those sometime too. AK Hiker
  5. The fall hunting season has arrived in Alaska and I had an epic trip last week through the 40 Mile River country and on to the north slope of the Brooks Range. This will be a multiple post picture essay as the pictures show better than words what Alaska has to offer when the weather is nice. The first picture shows where I ended up for several days between the Saddlerochit Mountains to the north and the pictured Shublik Mountains to the south. This was a hunting trip that turned more into a camping trip with a rifle and then paleo adventure as I started to recognize the unique geologic features which are very evident from the air with little cover vegetation. Upon returning home researched where I was and this location has one of the best exposures of Middle Jurassic rocks in northern Alaska. I was camped 7 miles from the Ignek Mesa and hiked in the area several days without seeing a single person. This is the Katakturuk River that cuts through the Saddleochit Mountains and demonstrates that there must have been a slow uplift of the mountain as the mountains are over 5,000' in elevation on either side of the river cut. To the north is the Arctic Ocean about 30 miles from the picture. First advice for going with a pack dog is don't put anything you want to keep dry in the dog pack. The weather was really warm for the arctic and Kobuk was in every creek to his belly even if it meant he had to lay down. This exposure is Early Bajocian and assigned Kignak Shale. I want to be abundantly clear this was a catch and release trip as NO collecting is allowed without a permit in all the areas I travel this trip. ALL pictured fossils were left laying where they were sighted with these being on the top of this shale. Heading back to camp after the first day of hiking. The following day we got up early and went over to the head of the valley by a mesa and saw beautiful scenery and a few more fossils as well as the first sheep tracks of the trip. We came a cross several caribou each day and they all still had velvet on their antlers. This was the first evidence of a fossil I saw on this hike and stopped looking for sheep and more at the geology. Within 20 feet saw an amazing sight and it was a wonder I saw it at all due to how small it was. The ammonite is .8 centimetres in diameter and my eye caught the mold with ammonite right beside it. These belemnite pieces were farther up the hill. These tracks are from Dall sheep which had been in the area recently which was interesting as this hill was just that not steep at all. Unfortunately here is one of the two sheep I saw on that hill. Both were winter kill and likely due to the warm winters we have been having with deep snow and thaw/freeze cycles. The sheep starve as not able to paw through more than 30 cm of accumulated snow. If the snow crusts from melting and then freezes the wind does not clear the snow and the sheep starve. The fossils were all within arms reach of these sheep bones. Kobuk in a recently occupied sheep bed. This was seen on the hike back down the hill. Interesting concretions of this formation. Similar fossils from farther down the valley from the previous days hike. I saw this fossil and suspect it may be crinoids but are new to me so not sure. Shows where the Jurassic age ammonite was seen.
  6. Here is the next part of my north slope trip pictures. After camping for two days I headed west and stopped on the Canning River to fish for char. The gravel bar I landed on had pieces of fossil coral and the river cut bank was of the same Kingak Shale with some large concretions. The view out of the plane shows the Ignek valley, east and west. After fishing headed west and stopped at the Kavic Camp for fuel, bring cash as avgas is $12 a gallon and glad to get it! Saddelrochit Mountains Looking west Ignek River valley Looking east Ignek River valley with Ignek Mesa behind the rear lift strut. Coral present in Canning River bed. Pingo- a feature of permafrost, ice lens buildup of up to 300/400 foot elevation. Polygons- ice lens in the soil giving the polygon shapes seen next to the pingo. No place to land here or would have checked it out. Reached the Colville River in the evening and flew all the way to the Killik River where the Colville takes a sharp bend. Killik River Colville River at the Killik River bend. Upon returning home read that there are known dinosaur track ways there and would have like to hike over and see them. Camp at Killik River ( the next day) Landed for lunch and was greeted by several bunches of caribou Kobuk and caribou bone Lignite present on most of the gravel bars. Colville River bar where fossils were seen. Bone or antler fragment.
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