| The Sedona
area is a montage of mostly Permian aged (285 million years old)
sedimentary strata, ranging from the terrestrial fresh water
mud flat deposits of the shales, petrified Sahara like sand dunes
of the Coconino Sandstones to the capping Marine layers of the
Kaibab limestones. Here, we are going to visit a locality north
of Sedona we personally call "Insect Hill" because
on our first visit where we found this outcrop, I found a small
slab with an fossil insect trackway on the top of a hill. Since
then, we have found primarily fossil early conifers and seed
ferns preserved as faint impressions in the brownish red shales.
Here are a few images of our latest trip there, which we did
after a local race which was held nearby. In fact, we could hear
in the distance the yells and cheers of the runners and the crowds
less than half a mile away. |
