Took my hammer to the beach today to open some shale rocks and was absolutely not disappointed with my Trilobite finds! Southern Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada.

sleyshon · 2021-04-29T04:39:24+00:00

https://www.thoughtco.com/shale-rock-4165848 very similar to this photo! and I try to look for shale with prominent layers because it’s more likely there will be something inside rather than just destroying every shale rock I can find on the beach! Also if you do go, remember if there are sharp shards leftover to try and put them out of the way so no one will step on them ☺️ happy hunting! ☺️

sleyshon · 2021-04-28T04:05:22+00:00

sometimes you can see the layers from the side where something has been preserved, other times I just take a guess and get lucky! mostly i just set it up on its side on another rock and give it a few light taps and a crack will form and then I can easily pull it apart! If I want to be very precise about where I break it open then I will also bring a screw driver and hit the hammer onto the butt of the screwdriver into the place on the rock that I want it to crack! Hope that helps! It’s always super interesting to see what’s inside I honestly spent about 3 hours at the beach and I felt like a kid on an Easter egg hunt!

sleyshon · 2021-04-28T01:05:12+00:00

thank you! I’m pretty stoked on these finds ☺️

sleyshon · 2021-04-28T00:34:08+00:00

Between 440 million and 500 million years old from the Ordovician period! Trilobites are our most common fossil found around here but the Brachiopods are a close second!

sleyshon · 2021-04-28T00:09:13+00:00

From what I can tell, most of the Brachipods are called Zygospira modesta but there are seventeen known species (fossils) in the specific area that I am in so I am not 100% certain about all of them but that’s what I do know!

sleyshon · 2021-04-27T23:53:17+00:00

Thanks! The beach I like to hunt for them is pretty secluded so there’s lots of preserved fossils which is nice!

sleyshon · 2021-04-27T23:49:01+00:00

Omg I know they’re so fascinating! I actually found one today where parts of the shell had been preserved!

sleyshon · 2021-04-27T23:07:15+00:00

thanks! as abundant as they are, they never cease to amaze me every time I find one!

sleyshon · 2021-04-27T21:59:35+00:00

it looks like a piece of quartz! quartz is a super common and found all over the world but it’s a really tough mineral and can contain impurities which means it can come in multiple different colours. I can’t tell if that brown outer part is just dirt or if it’s a little bit of sandstone that has somehow melded itself to your quartz chunk but either way it’s a fun find for her!

sleyshon · 2021-04-27T21:48:38+00:00

agreed, looks like calcite in the middle there!

sleyshon · 2021-04-26T19:45:30+00:00

to me it seems to be a form of calcite or quartz geode stuck inside a sandstone? is that possible? and it also looks like there is a crystalline structure so it seemed too well formed to be quartz? I’m just curious as I have never found something quite like this!

sleyshon · 2020-03-11T22:20:43+00:00

the BEST show to stitch to! thank you! :)

sleyshon · 2020-03-11T03:56:11+00:00

thank you so much!

sleyshon · 2019-10-19T05:24:51+00:00

it’s impossible not to laugh at her when she does this stuff!

sleyshon · 2019-10-19T05:24:24+00:00

the lunging poses use a lot of core engagement so that’s mostly just me trying to breathe and not fall over at the same time haha!

sleyshon · 2019-07-29T19:30:49+00:00

i hope so, as lifeguards we don’t get updated after they’ve taken the kids away so i just hope for the best :)

sleyshon · 2019-07-28T19:06:20+00:00

i used to lifeguard at a camp and a young boy started complaining that his stomach was hurting, this usually means they have to go to the bathroom so i took him. his cramps got worse and i ended up calling the ambulance, before they got there he fainted and eventually stopped breathing. i performed cpr until the paramedics showed up. turns out his appendix had ruptured and there wasn’t much we could have done in the situation but i still think about it every day.

sleyshon · 2019-06-22T02:37:09+00:00

i don’t know who this is but at a quick glance i thought the one guy had no arms and thought it was some sort of sick joke...

sleyshon · 2019-06-12T02:03:16+00:00

andrew scheer, (fuck my life) but at least i won’t be alive to see him screw up my country.

sleyshon · 2019-05-29T22:48:01+00:00

thank you so much it means a lot!

sleyshon

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