What is the name of the rock formation that contains the trackway?
(Hint: answer to this question can be found on the plaque at the outcrop, which is to the north of the walk through geologic time.) Now head towards the mold and casting site stopping at the retaining wall. What are fossils? By definition a fossil is any remnant or trace of an ancient living organism preserved in rock. They are usually found in sedimentary rock or in some low-grade metamorphic rocks. We normally think of fossils as ancient shells or bones that are preserved in rock. But fossils can take many forms such as: • An actual remnant of the organism such as a shell, bone or other tissue, which may be preserved in ice, amber, silica or sedimentary rock; • A mold of the organism after the original hard part or tissue dissolved or decayed such as an impression of a leaf or shell; • In some places a mold had been filled with a different mineral, precipitated from groundwater solutions, making a cast of the plant or animal; and • In some places plant tissue is transformed into a fi
