Our church trip to Big Brook Sunday went well. There were about 15-20 people, a small group. The sharks were hiding, we found relatively few shark teeth (but everyone got one), with Timmy Forquignon winning the coveted biggest shark tooth prize. Joe Hewes and I found a spot with nice belemnites (nautiloid relatives, look like large brown bullets), Bill Forquignon found a snail shell, and I found the most unusual thing, a saber-toothed salmon tooth. The weather was perfect, and we all had a good time in the cool water in the hot weather.
If you want to see more about the fossils, check out www.njfossils.net or www.fossilguy.com/sites/bbrook
Most people don't know that Marlboro is named after the marl layer which contains all these (and many other) cool fossils. The marl was mined and used as fertilizer. Some of the original fossils pits are on the back of the new church property. They say dinosaur skeletons were even found in them, so who knows- when sitting in the new church, you may be above a dead dinosaur!
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Dear Pastor:
ReplyDelete" Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting wilderness." Psalm 74:14
I live in Marlboro near the Big Brook.
I did not know that I am living in the Jurassic park. I found another reason to dig and tilt a little deeper in our garden next spring. Thank you for a new revelation. Chan Huh