FOSSILS!!! Reminder: Carleton Geology Lecture TODAY!!! at Skinner 10:30 am January 21, 2005

Attend the Carleton Convo lecture called "The Seashell on the Mountaintop" by the book's author who will speak about Nicholas Steno, the 17th Century 'Father of Geology'; at Skinner Memorial Chapel at 10:30 am today. Then stop by ArtOnWater to see our fossil exhibits...

ArtOnWater gallery takes a brief turn from its traditional art exhibits to host a Special Exhibition of 450 Million year old Rocks and Fossils from the Paleozoic Era of geological time.

Come see dioramas and fossil displays of the warm tropical seas which covered Northfield nearly half a billion years ago.

ArcheoPaleo, Northfield's unique science education and research center, specializing in the paleontology of the early Paleozoic, has created a wonderful exhibit of rocks and fossils for young learners, lifelong learners and just the curious.

Learn about the largest trilobite in the world, amaze your friends with new insights about ancient meteor impacts, giant 'quarry snakes' and mass extinctions.

Tour the research laboratory of ArcheoPaleo and sign-up for classes such as "What's This Fossil Doing In My Back yard?", or "Art, Fossils and the Paleozoic", or "Let's Go Fossil Collecting and Be Home for Supper", or even "What I'd Like To Do In a Paleontology Laboratory". What are you doing with your winter? Come expand your horizons...