U-Dig Fossils

Our latest adventure with RAH... U-Dig Fossils in good old Delta, Utah. While many have heard of Delta, few have ever been there, or know where it is. Trust me, it's in the middle of nowhere and it's not that exciting. Going south on I-15, you turn off at the Nephi exit and continue west. And you keep driving for about 50 miles, turning once on a connecting highway till you hit Delta, a small town with a population of just over 3,000. So we looked around at a museum and a store and ate out and watched the Jazz game that night in the hotel. The next day, we got in the van and drove another 30 miles and then turned off on a rocky bumpy road for 20 miles to get to the U-dig place. This place just has piles and piles of rocks and you go out with your safety glasses, gloves, rock hammer, and bucket and just pound away at rocks looking for trilobites. There are quite a few of them actually. But a lot of times, you open the rock and there is nothing. I found a bunch of little guys, and a couple of larger ones that I gave to the participants. You actually hit the sides of the rocks to open them like a book, rather than breaking the rocks in half on the surface side... does that make sense? After a while, i was having more satisfaction pounding rocks and breaking them apart than finding the fossils. We were there for almost 3 hours and everyone went home with some new fossilized friends.

Me and my safety glasses and rock hammer!

Searching for fossils!

Look closely and you can see some of the imprints on the rocks. About an inch and a half long.

Just some small guys on these rocks. About half an inch long.