Show BOYS GATHERING UNIQUE FOSSIL A unique fossil of pra prie his botic marine animal pits life and a d other forma timis of geological interest is now under deve development l by the az albar ibor pro gram in iegan canyon TI TA exhibit is Icca located ted on the logan river highway below babow the forks oz ol the ca CB can n yon and is a result of the operative cooperative co efforts of the utah state agricultural college the firest iSar service vica and state road Gorri Commis misson the principal feature of this fiela exhibit is the like formation formati ioa which has been by geologist as the castings and borrows of mr m in r ire worms other of interest will be added as the develop ment program progresses Sae speaking aking of this exhibit Profess oi J stewart willams WilVa will ams ms geologist Gec logist t of tn th utah state agricultural college collage says thess these peculiar markings in tha fea asi ture exhibit are developed in a formation known as thesban the swan beak quan zite the quartzite was wab originally sand deposit depos it ed in a shallow shall sw s sa aa thai covered this region in middle ordovician tims time some four hundred mil kiil lion years ago the tha structures structure si which h have ave S suggested u g fossil seaweed arr ar really the trails castings and billeg burrowe burro wg of marine worms such iacch worm are related to the common cartri worm but they are mush much larger ana I 1 are provided with paired limbs on m vach each segment this old beach must have supported an am extremely dense demse worm population because the beda are completely bored bared through with worm tubes Although such markings are r her cammon I 1 doubt that there is any place in north Arn america arnevick evica or in the world where they are more mare beamut faily developed and preserved than these that are found in m logan canyon |