AR 2001 Layout_Final - Royal Ontario Museum
AR 2001 Layout_Final - Royal Ontario Museum
AR 2001 Layout_Final - Royal Ontario Museum
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05.In the Field<br />
. . . 445-million-year-old fossil corals . . .<br />
along the coast of Hudson Bay.<br />
Churchill, Manitoba—Joint palaeontological field work with colleagues from The Manitoba <strong>Museum</strong> and the<br />
University of Manitoba. July 2000—Our field crew identifies, measures, and maps the position of Ordovician<br />
(445-million-year-old) fossil corals found in rocks along the coast of Hudson Bay. The ancient corals grew<br />
among boulders in a shallow sea surrounding a tropical island archipelago. Field crew: Dr. Graham Young (ROM<br />
Research Associate in Palaeobiology) and E. Dobrzanski, The Manitoba <strong>Museum</strong>; Dr. Bob Elias and N. Aime,<br />
University of Manitoba.