 Hello, welcome to the Rugged Rockhound. Today, I'm just taking a short drive with my wife up Spanish Fork Canyon. So this canyon Unfortunately, mostly private property, so there's not a whole lot of place to rockhound, but we do have a little window here This is Skyline Drive right here and then if you look over this way We have Starvation Road So this hill between these two public roads is one of the few public areas in this canyon All right, welcome. So we just came a little ways up the road up Starvation Canyon or Starvation Road And that's where we came from. So that's the highway over there. We just drove up the way So here's the hill up back here behind me. So the hill has fossils kind of all through it We're gonna just kind of start right here. We'll see what we find here close by We might go back to the beginning or we might go up the road a little ways We're gonna search around. So what we're looking for here. So this is Cretaceous Time period very shallow ocean. So we're gonna see a lot of fossils in particular oysters and clams and small seashells They're all over the place What we're hoping to do is find Maybe more unusual things being near the shoreline. You can also find bird tracks in these layers You can also find occasionally some petrified palm wood. I've only ever found one piece up here. So Maybe we'll get lucky again I've been walking up the wash a little distance and Here we have a nice little block that you can see has seashells all through it Right now I'm a little further up And sure enough here's some of the layers where the shells are coming out of most of the oyster shells You can see one right there Oyster shell A piece of one most of them are really broken and most of the oyster shells and clams shells you'll see up here Are gonna be broken So I most likely won't keep those Unless I find a really nice one But I am looking for the seashells the coiled seashells which in Geology is known as a gastropod Those usually tend to survive better and they look cool. So those are the ones I'll be keeping most likely These are not the shells. We're looking for Dang smell shells What west a little ways didn't really find much came back east Went up a little bit and finally found the layer is trying to get to So if you take a quick look here Right there in the soil you'll see gastropods seashell fossils That's what I was looking for The main layer it's coming out of right here It's kind of an area from here down But you can see if you look closely at the rock There's an oyster in there There's a coiled shell right there spiral shell One right there It's all coming out of here This is where it's thicker right here this this part right under here is where it's got a lot of shells. There's a Seashell right there of these gastropods So I might sit down and kind of Dig a little bit out just to see you can find some nice stuff in those layers So just pulled a piece out and it's got a good sized one right there bigger than what we've been seeing so I decided to come up the hill a little way and I was thinking maybe if I come up further the shells maybe won't be as crushed and sure enough I'm getting better ones ones that haven't been damaged That nice Look how nice that one is Came out beautifully and it's still perched on the rock in a very beautiful way Out of the nice Specimen look at that one poking out right there that looks like the biggest one we've found so far See if I can get that on one piece Okay, looks like we've removed enough rock to get it out beautiful Definitely the biggest one of the day So I'm back down off the hill That was That's the hill I was up on right right about here Yeah, right about there So just in case anybody comes this way So there's Spanish orcanean road right there you can hear cars occasionally on it But what you're seeing right up here, that's the railroad track and the road itself is right underneath it right there so if you come in You drive the entrances right there remember this is starvation road you come down Go around that first little hump And then you come around this one right here And then it's just right up there All right made it back from rock counting washed everything off. So let's take a look Right here. We have some larger ones that had some Just a whole bunch of shells on them Just tons of shells. We've got a bunch like that. I did manage to get an oyster shell that was I mean, they're all crushed but this one mostly stayed intact Got a lot of small seashells here Some nice ones too like this Right here got a nice big one right here That was the big one we pulled out Some other good sized ones as well right there two that I liked the most this one Stayed on and it just looks so nice like that And this one right here. Look at those Really nice Hopefully they stay on Yeah, those were the finds pretty good day