Keenan's Blogiddy Blog

Back to my old job after a 6 month tenure on a project, which translates into more time for moi.  More time means I can finally dabble into personal stuff such as geology and updating my blog. I need to find my stuff though Oo' - K

Kept so busy during 2014 with online courses, projects, digs, and work assignment that I've hadn't the chance to upload anything new even though I have the material. I'll be adding posts of 2014 and plans for 2015. Till then, cheers! - Keenan

I had meant to make a post on my blog on my last trip from last year to Blue Beach, in Nova Scotia but it had slipped my mind. I had brought my new Olympus SLR camera with me to capture snapshots and compare the quality with what I used to take photos with. A bit bulkier than the old gal, but I must admit that I won't miss her much. I can't recall when I went down there, and the data on the camera isn't accurate as I didn't bother setting the right time/date format. On this trek you will notice there's a little of everything spread all over along the beach. South of the Jurassic and Triassic rocks that make up most of the Blomidon Peninsula lies the Carboniferous Horton Formation. These fossil bearing sedimentary rocks stretch from a little South of Hantsport to about Boot Island, North East of the city of Wolfville. The further one ventures South, the more you'll encounter rocks containing evaporites. These would be mostly part of the Carboniferous Win...

In the Maritimes its a slow time of year when you hit the Winter months. With Winter, comes the inevitable Winter blue and it sucks. This Winter started pretty nasty around the Holidays with several snow storms blanketing the area. Coming into January 2014, we got a few days of reprieve with above normal temperatures. I decided to hit the road to try to snap myself out of this Winter torpor. Here's a few photos: Joggins, Nova Scotia From Hardscrabble road heading South. You can see the Joggins Fossil Center on the left. The force of the bay is so great that it just piles ice and creates this awesome scenery. Fossil cliffs at Joggins down Lower Cove. Not easily accessible in Winter and very dangerous. View from the bridge down Shulie road, overlooking the old road structures. Chunks of ice covery most of the beach. Hard to walk and tricky to step on. Glad to see a few patches of rocky ground to step on. Alma, New Brunswick C...

Happy Holidays! I haven't posted since August but not for the lack of rock hunting I did. Well, Fall wasn't a busy period as work took me away from making any significant rock trips. This coming Spring will make me more busy than last year's rock hunting season as I have an incredible amount of new locations to go pick at. But before then, I intend to keep myself busy. On the weekend of February 7th and 8th there is the AGS's (Atlantic Geologica Society) 2014 Colloquium and Annual General Meeting in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. For more information, you can check via this link: http://ees.acadiau.ca/~raeside/ags2014/index.html . They will update as the information comes in. The other event happening in May of 2014 (May 21st - 23rd) is the GAC-MAC Annual Meeting held by the Geological Association of Canada and the Mineralogical Association of Canada in Fredericton, New Brunswick. More information via this link here: http://www.unb.ca/conferences/gacmac2014/ This sho...

A few weeks ago I took a day trip to our neighboring province of Quebec to check out Miguasha National Park. I've always wanted to check that place since I've started researching fossil localities. Miguasha National Park is what the paleontology community sees as the world's most important paleontological fossil record of the Devonian Period. Most of the main fossil fish groups have been found here, including lobe-finned fish, the antecedent of tetrapods. The park's fossil collection has over 5000+ specimens. The importance of these cliffs and the treasures they hold has put this little community on the map, and eventually became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For me, seeing this site was important. I've been going to Joggins quite often and appreciated what information that this place was giving out to the world. I wanted to see how this mirror image of an as important site from a different time period would compare with Joggins's. Miguasha (r...