Fossil Hunt

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Students had a fun and successful day hunting for fossils. The first stop was the site called Losodok - a landscape of rolling hills and - lucky for us - lots of wind. Temperatures can easily sore above ...

Bones

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Today students learned the basics about human anatomy and how detailed knowledge of bones is crucial in identifying fossils.  Human, or other animal fossils, are very rarely found in one piece – most ...

Lothagam Camping Trip

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The students went on their first overnight camping trip to Lothagam, a site that dates as far back as eleven million years, and contains fossils and artifacts from as little as several thousand years ago. ...

TBI Cliffs

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Students learned the concept of superposition, where the oldest sediment or rock layers are on the bottom of an exposed outcrop. However, due to various forces, such as movement of the plates that make ...

Glimpses of the Past

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The students have been learning more about the geology of the Turkana Basin.  Today they learned about how layers of sediment form (stratigraphy) and what these layers can tell us about the nature of ...