Dry Dredgers Field Trip
June 21 and 22, 2008
Penn Dixie Near Hamburg, NY

Pictures by Tom Bantel

Friday Arrival at Penn-Dixie.jpg
Friday Arrival at Penn Dixie

 Don Bissett Getting Started on Saturday.jpg
Don Bissett getting started on Saturday.

 Don & stranger @ DD Claim Site.jpg
Don and stranger at Dry Dredgers claim site.

 More Dry Dredgers Arrive.jpg
More Dry Dredgers arrive.

 Taylor Bross & Don Bissett Surveying Site.jpg
Taylor Bross and Tom Bissett surveying the site.

 Bantel's Large Shale Block from Trilobite Layer.jpg
Bantel's large shale block from trilobite layer

 Brian Gets his First Trilobite Block for Splitting.jpg
Brian gets his first trilobite block for splitting.

 Bryan Specht's First Sixteen Tons.jpg
Checking out the tools.

 Checking Out Tools.jpg
Checking out the tools.

 Cowboy Jim Shelton.jpg
Cowboy Jim Shelton

Arthrodire Fish Plate.jpg
Arthrodire Fish Plate

 Don Prepares to Remove Jerry Bastedo's Arthrodire Plate.jpg
Don prepares to remove Jerry Bastedo's Arthrodire fish plate.

 Let the Noise & Dust Begin.jpg
Let the noise and dust begin.

Don Bissett Creates his Own Dust Storm.jpg
Don Bissett creates his own dust storm.

 Don Bissett Guarding His Claim.jpg
Don Bissett guarding his claim.

 Don Bissett Removing First Blocks.jpg
Don Bissett removing his first blocks.

 Don Bissett.jpg
Don Bissett

 Dry Dredger Marianne Shelton.jpg
Dry Dredgers Marianne Shelton

 Dry Dredgers (5 of 8).jpg
Dry Dredgers (5 of 8)

 Dry Dredgers Working their Site on Saturday.jpg
Dry Dredgers working on their site on Saturday.

 Fathers & Sons Trilobiting.jpg
Fathers and sons trilobiting.

 Foreman Bob Bross.jpg
Foreman Bob Bross

  How big is That Shale Block.jpg
How big is that shale block?

 Non Dry Dredger Erin Brochu.jpg
Non Dry Dredger Erin Brochu.

 Non Dry Dredger Jim Brochu of NYC Helping Out.jpg
Non Dry Dredger Jim Brochu of NYC helping out.

Jim Brochu Packs for Return to NYC.jpg
Tom Brochu packs for return to NYC.

 Marianne Shelton Prepares for Some Serious Shale Splitting.jpg
Marianne Shelton Prepares for some serious shale splitting.

 Partial Array of DD Tools.jpg
Partial array of Dry Dredgers tools.

Penn Dixie fossil ID board. (next 4 pics)
Penn-Dixie Fossil ID Board 1.jpg
Penn-Dixie Fossil ID Board2.jpg Penn-Dixie Fossil ID Board 3.jpg Penn-Dixie Stratigraphy.jpg

 Penn-Dixie's Jerry Bastedo Chats with Don.jpg
Penn-Dixie's Jerry Bastedo chats with Don.

 Prying Another Shale Block Loose.jpg
Prying another shale block loose.

 Rest Period.jpg
Rest period.

 Still Searching for Those Elusive Phacops.jpg
Still searching for those elusive Phacops.

 Taylor Bross on Shale Pile.jpg
Taylor Bross on shale pile.

 Tom Specht Shovels as Others Look On.jpg
Tom Specht shovels as others look on.

 U of Wisconsin Fossil Van.jpg
Univ of Wisconsin fossil van.

 Raiders of the Lost Arctinurus (trilobite).jpg
Univ of Wisconsin fossil van: Raiders of the Lost Arctinurus (trilobite)

 We Love Trilobites.jpg
Univ of Wisconsin fossil van: We love trilobites.

 Coprolites Happen.jpg
Univ of Wisconsin fossil van: Coprolites Happen!

 Were is That Trilobite Hiding.jpg
Where is that trilobite hiding?

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Previous Trips to this site

June 2006
June 2003
June 2002

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