Woody materials at the base of a valley filled channel.
Palm leaves
Upper Cretaceous sandstone. Tree roots at the base of a valley filled channel.
Palm tree roots, tree trunk and root holes.
Massive multi-story channel sandstone.
Panorama – Incised valley fill channel
Upper Cretaceous sandstone, the base of an incised valley fill channel. Palm tree root ball. Note the carbonized root system.
Palm tree root ball exposed at the very base of a channel sand.
Shannon discovering another palm tree nodule.
Trinidad sandstone. The darker band where Shannon is standing is a layer of Ophiomorpha burrows.
Middle Raton sandstone with high angle cross bedding.
Coal seams behind the Trinidad Holiday Inn on I25.
The KT boundary.
Lower Vermejo coal, 1.5 – 2ft thick. Coal is approximately 100ft above the Trinidad sandstone. Note the abundance of large shale and coal ripup clasts.
Normal stratigraphic sequence, sandstone to gray shales to greenish paleosoils to Coal.
Multistory incised valley fill channel. Shannon is 6ft and the coal seam is 10ft.
Lower Tertiary Raton Formation. Inclined heterolithic stratification on top of a coal seam.
Real cool!!!! Is there anyway to enlarge the thumbnails to get a close look??