Welcome to our family geology blog.

I've started this blog as a way to keep a record of our Kansas 4-H geology activities.  My daughter is starting her third year in 4-H, and my oldest son has started coming on trips with us.  My youngest son is still in the wings.

Here is my daughter's board for 2011. It included:

Fossils Chordata Osteichthyes vertebra Echinodermata Crinoidea stem Brachiopoda Articulata Neospirifer Chordata Chrondrichthyes tooth Mollusca Gastropoda Turritella Minerals Calcite Cone in cone structure Pyrite Garnet Quartz variety Selenite Barite Rocks Greenstone Rock Gypsum Quartzite Chalk Kimberlite

For the 2011 state trip, our campsite at Lake Perry in Jefferson county was littered with fossils: