Always good to head out on a paleontology trip by visiting the O'Hare brachiosuarus
Flying buttresses!
Ghent: St. Niklas Church, the Belfry, and St. Bavos Cathedral
So nice to have Sarah and Adriane here!
Het Pand, our conference venue is on the left side. St. Michaels is on the right.
Main entrance to Het Pand, our conference venue
Posters with a Medieval flair
Stigall Lab!
The decor fits the paleontology theme
Me and my title slide
The Castle of the Counts from 11880--also the site of our welcome reception
Brachiopodologists!
Beer, science, and castle
Stigall lab storms the castle
Conference banquet
Ghent Post Office
Mix of old and new
Beautiful river view
Port of Calais
White Cliffs near Calais (Cretaceous chalk)
Channeling Danerys. Watch out Westeros, umm Britain.
White Cliffs of Dover! (Cretaceous chalk)
Scenic Ordovician outcrops of Wales
Geologists on the trail
Pillow basalts
Grey Seal
St. Davids Cathedral
Cambrian Caerfai Formation
Intertidal zone
Caerfai Bay
Neolithic Burial Site
Marloes Sands
Silurian outcrops
Modern traces in modern soils
Lingulid brachipod!
Silurian soils
Root traces in Silurian soils
Brachiopod!
Lots of structural damage in these rocks
The Coralliferous Formation
"Three Chimneys" as mapped by Murchinson
Prof Williams points out that color change =/= boundary from Silurian to Devonian
Pembroke Castle
Beaches are HUGE at low tide
Diving Gannet
Our guide reminded me of Daniel Craig...perhaps he's too busy doing geology to do any more Bond movies?
Impessively thick paleosol
Tidal range of Freshwater West
Cross beds
Burrows!
Giant beach!
modern Radulichnus
Silurian turbidites
Dolphin
New Quay
This guy wanted my lunch
We had to pass this horse to get to our rocks
Also, lots of sheep on the path
Hirnantian channel incision and fill
Elephant skin
Bedding vs. rock cleavage
Acadian folding
Nerites
Goodbye Britain!
Exhausted, but at the Ghent Festival anyway
Ghent Festival
Ghent festival
