This is a half day urban field trip where we will look at buildings clad in fossils-rich limestones of the Tyndall Formation which is quarried at Tyndall, Manitoba. The Tyndall is Ordovician in age which is equivalent to 450 million years old. The field trip begins downtown Calgary where we will visit some historic buildings clad with Tyndall. Thereafter we will see ten blocks of Tyndall in front of the Safeway store in Kensington which allows us to see the Tyndall in three dimensions. Then we will go up to SAIT where a wide variety of fossils (corals, sponges, nautiloids, algae, pelecypods, brachiopods) are exquisitely preserved in the limestone which extensively clads the Senator Patrick Burns building. This field trip is family friendly; kids are welcome.

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Fundraising Goal

Goal: $2,000

Raised to date: $712.00

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Minimum donation per participant: $50

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Covid-19 Precautions

We will observe COVID-19 precautions and guidance from the Government of Alberta and expect participants to follow appropriate sanitizing and social distancing. We thank you for your understanding and cooperation! If you need more details you can check the Government website at: this link.

Please bring a personal mask and your own hand sanitizer.

Thank you for joining us for this exceptional day out in one of Alberta’s truly wonderful Wild Spaces — we look forward to meeting you there!

Details

For more information, please see Tako’s article Tyndall Stone: Hunting Ordovician Fossils in Downtown and Inner-City Calgary in the December 2020 issue of the Alberta Palæontological Society Bulletin (PDF Download).

The adventure will start at 1:00 PM and run through until about 4:30-5:00 PM. Specific meeting times and location will be sent to registered participants in advance of the event.

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