And when you have an over abundance of terrestrial snails, you may have...

This wonderful artwork for the publication was done by Kathryn Killackey @kjkillackey.bsky.social

Please come and visit us again. I would be so pleased to show you all the sites, modern and fossil.

In Travels to North America and Nova Scotia (1845) Lyell published this lithograph of bird tracks in mud that he collected in 1842. Today, as I sit on this same shore, I can appreciate Lyell watching these delicate birds and thinking about deep time. #geoheritage

Last bit should say “Cracks seem unrelated to tracks here.”

The mudcracks seem to be based on the mass and orientation of mud, flatter regions have larger “tiles”, wider spacing of cracks and more vertical areas have more tightly spaced cracks, smaller tiles. Tracks seem more related to spacing here.

The delicate bird tracks are from the small Semipalmated Sandpipers. While doing a drawing study, the birds ignore you and go about their business.

Some nice high tide mud exposures with Raccoon footprints at The Port Pub in #PortWilliams #NovaScotia #PortWilliams

The first of its kind in the limestone unit.

It's a new specimen and from the Windsor Group, so yes, it is younger.