I wish I had clouds like these for my photos more often! This is the southern end of the Marble Mountains in California's Mojave Desert. The Marble Mountains are famous for the Latham Shale Formation which contains one of the earliest trilobite species at ~540 million years old! After about 15mins of splitting shale, I found this Olenellus clarki(?) cephalon. Finding fossils is kind of like time traveling. 馃ぉ
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A color landscape photo of two gray-green rocks containing a fossil. The rock was split along natural fracture lines. The two pieces lay side by side, open like a sandwich, revealing the fossil impression of a small, long extinct sea creature. It is only the head part as the creatures were known to molt. The part looks a bit like a horseshoe with ridges run down the center.
A color landscape photo of a nearby range of hills. The geologic formations are tilted down toward the right. The hill's rocky landscape are nearly barren. The sky is blue with many small white puffy clouds.