In the Late Cretaceous period (100 to 65 million years ago), southwestern Oregon was inundated by a shallow seaway, which deposited a layer of sandstones and mudrocks" ... very near my home. I visited the relics of this ancient sea, the "Ancestral Rogue River" in 2019, and wrote this blog post:
https://askdanshaw.blogspot.com/2019/05/southwest-oregon-was-sea-65-million.html
After the devastating #AlmedaFire in September, I re-visited the rock formation to see if the fire had exposed features that I had overlooked before. I was in luck. We found a very unusually shaped stone, perhaps shaped by human intervention, very much in the shape of a turtle shell.
I visited with Carolyn Brouillard, who asked me some #whatsavortex questions on video:
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