Wasson Bluff Special Place: Extensive faulting during the breakup of Pangea resulted in the formation of a rift valley in the Fundy region. Towards the end of the Triassic the faults taped into molten liquids below the earth’s crust and these flowed in to the valley to form the volcanic deposits exposed along our shores. As the lavas cooled life on the earth, and in the seas, underwent a dramatic change, with over 50% of the animal groups know from the Triassic disappearing from the fossil record.
Sediments deposited on top of the volcanic flows mark the beginning of the Jurassic period and contain the bones, teeth, scales and coprolites of a number animal groups including crocodiles, reptiles, proto-mammals, fish and sharks, and plant eating and carnivorous dinosaurs. The red and grey sediments are associated with volcanic talus, river channels, lake deposits and windblown sand dunes and the rocks record the ancient environments that the animals lived in.
Departs Museum at 10:30 am. Cost 20 per person and you must pre-register by 12 noon Friday, June 24th.