Inhabited by Phillip Vannini;April Vannini;

Author:Phillip Vannini;April Vannini;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

We began to walk in a single file, led by Fiona, the kids jumping around with excitement (figure 6.1). Maybe they knew that we wouldn’t find any actual dinosaurs, but it was obvious that there was at least some hope in their eyes that they would spot secret clues. “On our way to the first stop,” Fiona alerted us, “I want you guys to look for clues in the landscape and that will help us to understand what this area looked like 75 million years ago. I think when we chat about it at our first stop, the answer might just rock your world.”

A few minutes later, Fiona stopped and so we all did. She stepped onto a tall rock like an actress on stage, and we formed a circle around her. She commanded our attention once again with her verve and clear voice: “So, while we were walking, was anybody looking for clues in the landscape as to what this area might have looked like 75 million years ago? Did you see something?” Kids and parents shouted a few answers. No one had the right guess, so Fiona decided to give us a hint: “Does anybody know what kind of rock we’re all standing on right now?”

“Sand rock?” someone answered tentatively.

“Sandstone,” Fiona corrected. “Exactly. And where do we find sand today?”

“Beaches.”

“Beaches, yes. Perfect. So where there’s water, there’s sand. Exactly!” Fiona exclaimed. North America looked different in the late Cretaceous period, she said, before showing us a drawing. “So, if you see this blue line running down the middle of North America, that is the Bearpaw Sea, a warm, shallow inland sea that used to go right down the middle of North America. And this Red Square is where Dinosaur Provincial Park is today. So we were on prime beachfront property. And that meant that there was lots of water here from that warm, shallow Bearpaw Sea.”

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