Friday, March 13, 2015

Turks and Caicos Day 5- West Caicos Day

Time for some Pleistocene stuff!!!

But first... mangroves and callianassa burrows!


Pleistocene dunes!

Abandoned hotels!

Boat cove.... check out the Shazam line between the facies!


West Caicos


Laura looking Boss!

What could this be?


Gorgeous Ophiomorpha burrows!





Sand dollar escape structures?

Where the coral meets the sediment.

Corals, that transition to...

Red algae (Goniolithon)

Students prepping for mapping

Diplocraterion


Burrows!

"Get mapping!"

Parting lineations on the beach

Boulder conglomerate!

Root traces!

Fossil Corals

Coral growth bands

Fossil A. palmata

A large Diploria sp. head coral!


A perfect cut through a coral branch!



Idyllic boat cove!

Kris is upside down!

Jump Greg, Jump!

Boulder conglomerate

Fossil corals on West Caicos


Fossil A. palmata with Kris for scale!

A large broken branch!

Greg doesn't like being a scale bar for the large coral heads...


Fossil finger coral (P. porites)

a massive wall of red algae!

Dropping some knowledge!



The inside of an Acropora palmata (elkhorn coral)

After our stint with the fossil reefs, we got in the water with our snorkel gear and got dragged over the crazy-steep shelf edge!
Little patches of reef...

Prepare for the drop off!

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