[BNS_members] Upcoming Field Trip: Interpreting the Ancient Environment of Horton Bluffs

[Caroline Beddoe]

Good morning,

The spring world is full of excitement and our May calendar [1] is 
filling up and we can't wait to announce more spring and summer events 
and happenings shortly.

Another great field trip is coming up: Interpreting the Ancient 
Environment of Horton Bluffs.

_Join leader Peter Wallace for an informative morning walk learning 
about rocks and fossils on Sunday May 14 at 9:00 am. Meet on Avonport 
Station Road (details to go out to participants). More details below and 
registration link here [2] & below, too._

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Open to all ages! Come explore... This field trip to a single outcrop 
(although quite large) will allow the viewers extensive observations on 
a small period of time in the geologic past as well as some of the 
events that have affected the rocks and organisms after deposition. 
Through questions and deductive reasoning, some guidance from the field 
trip leader, and the personal experiences of the participants, one will 
be able to envision the geological history of Horton Bluff up to the 
modern day: a science-based trip of discovery.

If BNS members were impressed with Sandra Barr's talk on the geological 
history of Nova Scotia here's an opportunity to view and access some of 
the evidence used in that talk. Geologists compose stories about ancient 
environments and organisms using rock and fossil evidence starting from 
a single outcrop to a series of outcrops with similar rocks and fossils 
to regional areas involving outcrops of rocks and fossils of older, 
similar, and younger ages. This allows geologists and paleontologists to 
discover changes or evolutionary trends in biologic organisms and their 
geographic areas over time - the bio-geological history of Earth.

Details & registration link: 
https://blomidonnaturalists.ca/event/interpreting-the-ancient-environment-of-horton-bluffs-field-trip/

-- 
Caroline Beddoe
  She/her
  613-619-1098
  Program Coordinator
  Blomidon Naturalists Society
  Wolfville, Nova Scotia

_ Blomidon Naturalists Society activities take place in Mi'kma'ki, the 
traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People. We 
acknowledge that we have a responsibility to honour and learn about 
their histories and current cultures and to actively work in support of 
reconciliation. We are committed to fostering respectful and sustainable 
relationships with the Indigenous Peoples of this land, with all other 
organisms, with the land and with the water._

Links:
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[1] https://blomidonnaturalists.ca/
[2] 
https://blomidonnaturalists.ca/event/interpreting-the-ancient-environment-of-horton-bluffs-field-trip/
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