Fossil Hunting In Southern Ontario's Most Concentrated Fossil Bed. Rock Glen Conservation Area.
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- A fantastic place to spend the day with your family, the Rock Glen Conservation Area offers a great boardwalk trail system, large picnic area with washroom facilities, a waterfall, and the largest concentration of fossils in Southern Ontario.
Within minutes I had found dozens of different sorts of marine fossils!
It is a truly great place for your children to explore.
The conservation area is located about 45 minutes west of London Ontario, just north of the small town of Arkona. Driving on Townsend Line Rd (Secondary Highway 12), exit north onto Rock Glen Rd, and it will only be a couple of minutes drive, just follow the signs.
Here is a link to google maps:
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The first fossil you found was a horn coral from the Devonian Period around 350-400 years old. They are my favorite fossil to find, each horn coral has it own personality. I love your honesty about only taking one. I can understand the "no digging" but taking only one would be torture for me LOL!!!
Thanks, it was a fun day trip!
Gastropod.
This was such a chill video. I’m sure you made a nice memory for some of those kids who were having some trouble. Respect man
Thanks for the kind words Will, it was a really fun day, and I hope some children were able to have some fun as well.
Mucrospirifer (winged bivalve).
I live in the city and there are not very many fossils, I recently found a nice shell one by Humber river , so cool to see !
I'm 5 mins from rock glen in Thedford, we live on the highest area that's shale rock and the fossils are incredible, There everywhere you look, The tile yard is behind our property, fossil hunters from the US used to search here
Yes, I was amazed at how many there are in that area!
thanks for the tips!
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
At Blue Mountain area, on Barrie ON. there is a lot Ammonite fossils. Those are the black one.
Thanks Rocco! If I'm ever up that way again, I will look for them!
Have a blessed day!
Beautiful area.
Hi Bill, yes, it is a wonderful place to explore for the day or for a family outing.
i found some really cool fossils looks like scales and very well preserved. can anyone help explaining how do i go about identifying it? I also found a large quarts and was wondering how common it is to find in ontario? i couldn't believe no one else saw these.
Cool
In about 1976, my 5th grade class went to Rock Glen on a field trip. I have a vivid memory of being next to a lake with lots of shale all around at the waters edge. Possible we hit another site on that same trip, but I don't remember. Do you know where that might have been?
Hi Rick, thanks for watching.
From this site it is only a 20 minute drive to The Pinery Provincial Park, as well as another conservation area. They are both on the shore of Lake Huron, and they both have a lot of trails along the shoreline which is primarily shale.
That might have been it, there are no other inland lakes nearby.
@@bentroyoutdoors I had just about given up hope of ever knowing where that place was. All the people that were in charge that would remember have died. Thanks for the info.
You're very welcome, have a blessed day!
That is true! There are several quarries in that area, and some of them are quite large!
Great point!
@@train2noplace1 it's hard to say where is was. I remember a large lake. I couldn't tell you if it was Lake Huron, or something smaller, as the memory is very faded. I do remember walking all over shale at the waters edge though.
the spider im like thats a nope, and you go and touch it.
Hahaha, thankfully there are not many harmful spiders in Canada.
To begin to understand the mystery’s of fossils, watch Michael J Oards flood geology series.
Thanks, I will check it out.
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Sarnia
How old is the site dated?
No way I'm driving 3+hrs for 1 take home. But cool video.
It was a bad day Troy, and I'm sorry and sad I had to given you some of it. Please pardon and forgive for this meltdown, and happy fossil discoveries.
No problem Larry, I understand.
Thanks for the apology, I really appreciate it.
Have a blessed day!
Um,,, you don’t know anything about fossils, huh? The fist one was a horn coral, not a shell, the the next was a brachiopod, not a clam ,,,, this is rookie stuff here,,,
Not everyone is a nerd like you
at 4.10 these are Brachipoden.