Day 7 - Claire

 Day 7 

Post Oak On the Rocks

The day started at the houses where we all had breakfast and then left for The Whiteside Museum. We then drove to see some sandstone and learned about the geological history of the area. We got tiny hand lenses and looked at some of the rocks we found on the ground.

Chris’ father Jim taught us how to classify rocks and how to identify the different grains in the rock and if they were smooth or not. Then we walked to go look at some coprolite, fossilized poop. 

Then we got back to work on our fossils. 

After lunch we went back to the Whiteside Museum and got to look for shark teeth in sandstone, by wetting it and sifting through it in water. India glued the pieces of her tibia and fibula from her skeleton together.

 After that we retired to our houses and went to the lodge for dinner.


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