Trigono Park Fossil Hike

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A trip to collect fossils from the bottom of the sea that was over Las Vegas.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/17/how-carbon-dioxide-is-being-stored-in-rocks.html 
This is a website on how they are creating carbonate to capture CO2.

1,000 foot thick. Another chemically precipitated dolomite formed in a marine setting. The dark rock is carbonate, while the white material is fecal matter from worms. 500 million years old.

Phanerzoic eon > Paleozoic era > Cambrian period > Furongian epoch > Paibian age

Fossil Notes
The only fossiliferous bed is shale below limestone member neat middle of formation. This shale contains linguloid brachiopods and trilobite trash beds with fragments of Ehmaniella.

All of Nevada was underwater at that time and would later raise up to form the mountains we have today. This is why we find ocean fossils in the mountains and our state fossil is the Ictheosaurus