Thursday, March 12, 2015

Turks and Caicos Day 4- Ooid Shoal Day

Ooid Shoal Day! Enter the washing machine!

We started out on a tidal channel levée.


Lots of neat organisms there!
a starfish and Goniolithon red algae

A Holothurian

Some nice carbonate grains!

 Crispy Crusts

Limpets


And then we drove down to Little Ambergris Island.... Where the beautiful ooids are forming and cementing! It is very idyllic!

Ooid Beach!



And some friends

Discussing island formation

Flying the Drone

Old microbial mats that have dried up in a bubbly texture

Flat topped ripples

Getting a core of the mats and overbank oolites

OK Recovery


Mats and the random overwash conches


Beautiful mats that I know all my geobiology friends would love!




To The OOID FACTORY!!!!

The energy here is so high it is hard to get a good video!

Big beautiful ooids!

And a sea biscuit...




Pro drone landing skills courtesy of Kris and Nick!




Tomorrow the fossil reef!

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