Joggins Fossil Cliffs Centre

Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Bay of Fundy - Nova Scotia, Canada

The Joggins Fossil Institute is based in Nova Scotia, Canada, and provides guided tours of the cliffs.

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Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Nova Scotia

Joggins Fossil Institute - Nova Scotia, Canada

Tour the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, and learn about its significance in Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

The Joggins Fossil Institute is based in Nova Scotia, Canada, and provides guided tours in addition to its facilities.

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Canada-a-day #9: Joggins Fossil Cliffs

Visiting the UNESCO World Heritage Site which is hugely important to understanding our past.

Episode 94: Joggins Fossil Cliffs

The Carboniferous was a time of huge swampy forests, big trees, and lots of life both on land and in the ocean. One world-renowned fossil site from approximately 300 million years ago is the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, located on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia Canada. Joggins is one of Canada’s five palaeontology-based UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and is one of the best places in this world to find fossils from this time period.

Why are the Joggins Fossil Cliffs so important? What makes this locality unique?

In this episode, Liz speaks with Dr. Melissa Grey, the curator at the Joggins Fossil Centre to learn more about why this region is so important. We discuss the variety of fossils, from plants to invertebrates to vertebrates, and how the interesting preservation has resulted in virtually an entire ecosystem being preserved.

Joggins Fossil Cliffs Guided Tour | Beach Combing | UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nova Scotia, Canada

Joggins Fossil Cliffs are located along the Fundy coast in Nova Scotia, Canada. This area is the best known location to see fossils from the Coal Age - about 100 Million years prior to the Dinosaurs. Because of this rarity, in 2008 it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

During our visit of this site, we decided it would be very beneficial to have a guided tour. Here our guide (a Geology student) took us from the Visitor Centre, down to the beach and went over all the fossils that can be seen in the area (as you'll see in the video). Some of the most impressive fossils were the old tree trunks that have since turned into rock.

After our tour, we stayed on the beach and began beach combing for some fossils of our own. I think we did fairly well! (Well, Adam did anyway).

Our day ended up inside the museum at the Visitor Centre where you can see a small collection of fossils that they have found in the area.

We had a good time exploring the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, here in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Joggins Fossil Cliffs (Music: Elyxium by Paul Baraka)

I composed this to reconnect to the earth and fell the power she gives us. Music And Sound Paul Baraka

Music used from the album Elyxium by Paul Baraka track called Reconciliation
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Images are done in Joggins Fossil Cliffs: These magnificently exposed layers of rock reveal the world's most complete fossil record of life in the Coal Age when lush forests covered Joggins and much of the world's tropics, 300 million years ago.

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The Joggins Fossil Cliffs REVIEWS - NS Reviews

Reviewed: ★★★★★ The Joggins Fossil Cliffs is a favourably reviewed UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Bay of Fundy & Annapolis Valley region of Nova Scotia. This video shows some of the incredible reviews and praises that have been offered by their participants. (Real reviews by real visitors)

For more information you can visit them at:
Joggins Fossil Centre
100 Main Street
Joggins
Nova Scotia B0L 1A0




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Joggin's Fossil Cliff tour NS Sept 22, 2013

Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre - Media Coverage by CTV

NEAR MORDEN -- A giant predatory fish that once prowled the prehistoric sea was found near here with the catch of the day in its mouth -- the flipper of a huge marine reptile.

The bones of an 80-million-year-old Xiphactinus as long as a shipping container were unearthed in the Manitoba Escarpment, with the flipper of a mosasaur between its jaws.

The discovery was made by one of the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre's summer staff while walking through a drainage ditch along the edge of what used to be the Western Interior Seaway.

Science brings you so far, said Tyler Schroeder, general manager of the centre in Morden. Magic or luck brings you the rest of the way.

The specimen is about six metres long, making it the largest in the museum's collection of fish fossils.

We'll be setting a new landmark for ourself with this, Schroeder said.

It has caught the attention of the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet, which sent a crew to the site of the Xiphactinus find earlier this week.

The centre's resident paleontologist Joey Hatcher doesn't know if the 350-kilogram fish was trying to eat the mosasaur, or fighting with it. It's the first evidence he's seen of the big fish preying on the giant marine reptiles.

We find mosasaurs with their stomach contents chock full of fish. But to find a fish with a mosasaur in its jaws is really amazing luck, said Hatcher, who has dinosaur experience in the U.S.

The centre houses Canada's largest collection of marine reptile fossils, including a 13-metre mosasaur.

The fossils are from the saltwater seaway that covered central North America in the Late Cretaceous Period 80 million years ago, not the freshwater Lake Agassiz caused by a glacier melt just 12,000 years ago .

The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre is using the Morden Community Centre to showcase its finds from area digs while preparing a business plan and fundraising for a permanent museum, Schroeder said.

For now, there are two paleontologists on site five days a week, along with volunteers and summer staff from Winnipeg, Japan and Washington state working on undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Every day they're uncovering more fossils, Schroeder said.

The plan is to make Morden the Drumheller of marine reptile exhibits. The Alberta town has turned its dinosaur discovery into a tourist destination, and the Morden centre is trying to do likewise.

In the meantime, tours are available, with half-day trips and five-day dig packages. You can't enter one of the dig sites without a staff member, Schroeder said. You have to be out with someone who has a permit.

And you can't keep what you find.

All of our fossils are owned by the Province of Manitoba -- they're recognized as historical artifacts, Schroeder said.

For more information, see discoverfossils.com.

Geological Imbrication

Spectacular imbrication 2m deep or more on a beach at Ecum Secum. Nova Scotia.

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Revolution Against Evolution: The Joggins Fossil Cliffs

The fossil cliffs at Joggins, Nova Scotia, are of interest to creationists since they represent 18,000 feet of strata buried quickly in a flood, with tree trunks extending up through several strata. These polystrate fossils have long been recognized as evidence for fossilization by quick burial.