come on come on
we think we got the leaf right there it's a matter of time oh that is so nice really nice
that's a good leaf joe and i are currently hiking to 9 000 foot elevation we're on the
southern edge of the ancient fossil lake Ui nta and we're here today to look for fossil
leaves
i've got this workstation cleared out i'm trying to avoid these three sagebrush but
this block might come up and if it doesn't i've got plenty of block over here to work with
yep it's coming up whoa get that slab they'll call me joey big slabs
rock kind of breaks in a conchoidal fracture
we might be lucky to get like it's full of leaves but it's gonna be hard to get any out
ah man the detail on that is still amazing though yeah wow as you guys can see this stuff is really
difficult to split it keeps fracturing conchoidally because it's so fine grain and
the kerogen keeps the laminated layers together so it stops them from splitting more weathered
stuff that joe's working on over there splits better even then it's still really difficult to
play with and then on the eroded it stuff the leaves aren't as nice i got this one loose
it's pretty eroded though the leaves do come up
they do pop out on that kind of dolman looking thing yeah but it's coming out pretty easy
there's a bug yeah there's a bug check that out first basically first split
i just got myself good with a hammer
come on we think we got the leaf right there it's a matter of time oh that is
so nice really nice that's a good leaf it's a really good leaf let's get this other part off
nice john that's that plantanus that's pretty it's a pretty leaf that's a real pretty leaf
so we cleaned up the weathered edge on this leaf and it is
a whole big example what species did you say it was joe and Platanus wyoming whatever it is
and we're not in wyoming ah that doesn't work i think it's a Platanus this it's really nice though
it's about hand sized palm sized and that'll be really cool to display back home not quite
as big as Jon's but it's a different species a really nice one that's cool this place is awesome
this place has got a lot of leaves is this the view whoa look at that oh my god that's huge
that's beautiful Jon thank you you're welcome
Oh those are really great too! i've got a part of one of them
that one will clean up nice this one this one's all bug eating i guess that's what that is
yeah it's going to happen a lot
oh a little buggy
nice this is like the stuff at the blue forest joe how it erodes oh yeah look at that
yeah so joe just pointed out we're in the parachute creek formation
it's about 48, member*, it's about 48 million years old so it's younger than the green river fish
but it's still part of that lake chain so lake Uinta lake Gosiute and fossil lake all comprised
the great fossil lakes from the eocene i'm working on a pretty thick block right here
but i've cleared out a section that i might be able to get the pickaxe underneath
we'll see what happens - you got a leaf? hey boy! Cool!
joe you find this no that just popped out
that is nice that's perfect it's cool looks like a dinosaur footprint a little bit
look at that little guy perfect little leaf cute what you got
oh that's a cute leaf see good job thank you you suck yeah i've only found like eight or nine of
them this is my first one that i found that i haven't broken yes i haven't cough cough cough broken
this is your view from 9 000 feet so over the course of 48 million years this ancient fossil
lake has been uplifted through plate tectonics and now it's sitting on the top of this mountain
eroding out for us to find really cool and beautiful place
It's got that crack running through it right there oh that is cool but that's pretty cool nice
plate too decent decent plate nice two leafs on there nikki look at it, I told you we dig long enough
each one of us would find one of those Platanus Sycamore leaves yeah be very careful of that
crack i don't know how i'm gonna get that home there i'll just dump some thick glue along there
look at that leaf and better leaf it's a real good leaf it's a real nice leaf
i have a stick
it's time for us to wrap up we put our full day's work in and we found a lot of really interesting
leaves and other unique fossils of those pieces though this is absolutely the favorite one that
i found we cleaned it up a bit but that is a perfect sycamore leaf the detail is really really
incredible i love the serrated edges to the leaves 48 million year old sycamore leaf joe got one too
we'll go check it out in a second this is the only side with any color to it
junk i don't think i'll leave it really no joe managed to grab a whole milk crate
worth of other fossil leaves but the sycamores are definitely our favorite
and then nikki found something you really don't see that often very oh you want to talk about it
i don't know anything about it it's a bug she found a bug i found a bug you talk about
you don't see bugs all the time you see bugs everywhere god i see them but i don't know them
personally
they're kind of mysterious
that practically wraps up today that bug was super unique doesn't have any wings
if you guys think you might know what it is please let us know in the comments below
but we've got to set up camp cook some food and get out of here
you think you won't know no come on who watches this stuff anyways 17 000 right yeah valentine
he's good he's good don't give him a fatter head than he's already gone i'm just saying
he was reading out his fan messages a minute ago because i wanted to hear them - I asked - I carry all your rocks for you
and yes, wow, okay.. no
you guys are awesome
we out here in colorado
for some plants that they got out here they don't grow them they died a long time ago
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