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October 24-25, 2003
Collecting Fossil Leaves in the Eocene Green River Formation near Vernal Utah

This is an area that we collected a number of times this past spring and early summer. We would have spent more time there over the past 4 months but the no-see-ums, black gnats, were bad enough that they kept us away for a while. We finally decided to make our way back out to this are to collect some more fossil leaves and a few insects. We spent two days collecting and about 10 hours driving, but it is always worth while.

This time we took an old friend, and his family, along with us. Don Lind, the only Astronaut that I know, has been out with us on the occasional fossil collecting trip over the past 15 years. This time he brought with him quite a few members of his family. They all had a great time learning about these fossils and collecting them. The good thing about leaves is that they tend to be quite plentiful. Once you get into the good zone, almost every rock has something on it. So everyone was able to take some fossils of their own home with them.

On the morning of our first day out we scouted out this site. The exposure is perfect, almost no digging required