Fossils Collected by Brenda Tate
I've been searching for fossils over many years, but only recently have I enjoyed the digital camera technology that allows me to share what I find. No poems on this page --- just rocks! - Brenda
Spatter Marks from a Long-Ago Rainfall at Blue Beach
Amphibian Trackway, Rainy Cove. Probably Carboniferous in Age. Quarter Shown for Size Comparison.
Another View; Note Ripple Marks. The Creature Walked across Soft Mud.
Forest Floor Debris, Rainy Cove
Fossilized Wood, Joggins, Nova Scotia. Note the traces of coal on the piece at right. Joggins is considered one of the world's premier collecting sites for Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) flora and fauna. The smallest dinosaur tracks ever found were discovered here. Stands of ancient trees are constantly being eroded out of the sea cliffs, many still standing upright. It's one of my favorite places!
Tiny Brachiopods from Kennetcook, NS. They inhabited the Windsor Sea in the Early Carboniferous periods.
This appears to be a tiny shell fossil in sandstone from Medford Beach, NS, Triassic period. It is the only one I managed to locate there. As this area was once an arid valley, a shell seems incongruous, but it has striations that differentiate it from the small pebbles that are more common. Medford area is also known for the occasional discovery of dinosaur bones and trackways.
I've used a smaller version of this image elsewhere. It's a lepidodendron fossil imprint from Blue Beach, on the border between Kings and Hants Counties. Similar specimens can be collected at Joggins.
(Above) Part of my specimen display case. The large mineral at center is Stilbite, the provincial mineral of NS.
(Below) Ancient Seafloor from Rossway Beach, Digby County. There are long ledges extending far out into St. Mary's Bay and in them can be seen imprints of tiny marine plants and animals, as wll as worm burrows and other trace fossils. The deposits are Triassic in age.
