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Our editor, Hank Campbell, is collecting ideas for the SB 2.0 T-Shirt Collection. Here are a few ideas. I'd love to have some of yours. Maybe you'll see your name in lights... or at least on cotton.

Science and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.
Love a Geologist and feel the earthquake
My rocks are gneiss, don't take 'em for granite
All my faults are normal
Geologists make the bedrock!
So many beds, so little time
Geology is a load of schist!
Subduction ALWAYS leads to orogeny



As part of the Eighth BC Paleontological Symposium, May 15-18, 2009, I led a field trip to the Cretaceous-Jurassic exposures near Harrison Lake, British Columbia.
 

To reach the west side of the Bowron Lake paddling route, we must first face several kilometres portaging muddy trails to meet up with the Isaac River and then paddle rapids to grade two.

New evidence of a carnivorous killer has been found in Africa. This ancient killer almost had the misfortune of going extinct twice.

While evidence of 95-million year old therapods from Africa is quite scare making one think that each fragment would be treated like gold, this was not the case the first evidence of Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis, a newly described dinosaur from the Cenomanian of Nigeria and published in the December 2007 issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.




The Paleontologist community in China and around the world are all aflutter over a recent find in the Erlian Basin of Inner Mongolia.   

Known more for its heavy oil potential and favorite export - pollution, northeastern China is the preferred stomping ground for the savvy petroleum geologist.

As a complete aside, it also boasts the prettiest portion of the gene pool, or so says one of my stomping friends having explored much of Asia. So, h
ome to pretty women today and, as it would seem, an enormous bird-like dinosaur some 70 million years ago.

Fancy that.



Sunshine, salt air, the bark of seals and... fossils await for those lucky enough to beach comb the fossiliferous shores near the fishing community of Sooke on Vancouver Islands' southwestern edge.