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(Below) Prof. Eric Cole briefs students before letting them loose in a ditch containing Decorah Shale, for a mini fossil excursion.	(Below) Whitney (left), David (middle), and Peter (fight) begin their fossil hunting adventures.
(Below) Christie studies Decorah Shale, looking for fossilized organisms that once were part of an Ordovician Reef in this part of Minnesota. To read a reflection she wrote about their fieldtrip, click here.	(Below) Here are the sea lily stem, bryozoa, lamp shell, horn coral, gastropod, and bivalved mollusk fossils that Christie gathered for closer inspection.

"Ecology is not an extra curricular activity; rather, it must be the focus of one's work, the central hours of one's day, however that is spent." --Sallie McFague, The Body of God

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