TR: Fossils of Anza Borrego

[anutami]

for all of those who are snowed in here is another anza borrego adventure 🙂

Fish Creek Wash

EDIT*****
since many are having trouble with the photos, here are some of those posted on the anza site















Loop Wash off the main Fish Creek Wash


here are the fossil beds


















our campsite

[btggraphix]

My aunt have me a coffee table book a number of years ago called "fossil treasures of the Anza borrego" that is really really good. There is amazing collection of fossils there recording a pretty good chunk of relatively recent geologic time, especially mammals. It's been a long time since I went through it, and it is in storage now but on thing I remember is there is a lot of neat stuff relating to climate and the cutting off of chunks of that area from the sea due to all the tectonics in the area. There are many complex fault blocks associated with the transform faults of the San Andreas system.....the result was changes from open ocean to drying super saline lakes, and rivers like the Colorado being cutoff from any exit to the ocean. That creates major changes and adaptations of the ecological systems. Really neat stuff!

[anutami]

wthibeaux wrote:
Is it legal to remove the fossils?

The only thing you can take are pictures:)

Anza Borrego is a State Park and is unlawful to remove anything.

[wthibeaux]

Is it legal to remove the fossils?

[turtletalk]

i enjoyed the big pictures...filled my screen

[Reddog1]

I just checked the link on my Galaxy Note3. The photos are of normal size on the screen, and the text is right on. Interesting.

Wayne

[Reddog1]

Tiger4x4RV wrote:
... The iPad must automatically resize the photos to fit on the screen. Great, except that in the process it makes the text very tiny.

Maybe you are too far from the screen? :B

Wayne

[Tiger4x4RV]

I can see them fine on my iPad. However, I was streaming music with the iPad at the same time as downloading the photos and the music got stopped (by the iPad, not by me) until the photos finished loading.

The iPad must automatically resize the photos to fit on the screen. Great, except that in the process it makes the text very tiny.

[Reddog1]

I just thought you would want to know about the size. People might appreciate them more if they could see them. I was looking at them on my 50" TV :B

If you were so inclined, you could probably resize them. I think it would be interesting to know how many people can see them. They appear to be great photos.

Wayne

[anutami]

Reddog1 wrote:

anutami wrote:
for all of those who are snowed in here is another anza borrego adventure 🙂

Fish Creek Wash

I checked the link. The photos were exceptionally large, and were very difficult to see on my computer. From what I could tell, they would be great if they were smaller.

Wayne

Don't sit so close to your computer screen 🙂


Yeah they are pretty big on the computer, I do mostly everything on the ipad and they are perfect there.

Nolan

[Reddog1]

anutami wrote:
for all of those who are snowed in here is another anza borrego adventure 🙂

Fish Creek Wash

I checked the link. The photos were exceptionally large, and were very difficult to see on my computer. From what I could tell, they would be great if they were smaller.

Wayne

[Tiger4x4RV]

I am totally missing desert season this year due to a broken ankle. Your photos are my window to ABDSP this season. Please keep them coming.

[hedge]

I like the huge pictures, lots more detail. That's a cool area.

[anutami]

Dome wrote:
need to resize the pictures. there nice but take the whole screen and more.

Sorry, I made them that size because I like huge pictures 🙂 On my computer it takes up the whole screen, but not anymore. I will look into it a bit more.

[Dome]

need to resize the pictures. there nice but take the whole screen and more.