LOCKPORT, NEW YORK (August 10, 2015) — I know, such a cliché image, but you know it had to happen on this trip. This morning Andrej Ernst and I packed up 78 pounds of bryozoan-rich Silurian rocks and mailed them to Kiel, Germany. (Thank you to the kind and patient people at both UPS and the USPS.) We celebrated our success with a trip to Niagara Falls. Above is the view of American Falls from Prospect Point.
I can’t recommend going to Niagara Falls at the height of the season, especially since the parking system seems to be in disarray and run by 14-year-old boys, and the lines are like Disneyland on the Fourth of July. Nevertheless, there is no way I’m going to let the German visitor spend a week in Niagara County and not see the main attraction.
Yellow plastic ponchos and sandals are for the regular public, not geologists.
Andrej is very pleased to intimately meet the water pouring over the falls. We tried not to remember that it all flows from Lake Erie.
Tomorrow I take Andrej to a Buffalo hotel where he will wait until his flight back home to Germany. I then make the long drive back home to Wooster. A successful end to my 2015 field season. Lots of ideas now for next year!
Please use the tag NY2015 for a link to all the posts on this trip.
For our records, here are the localities visited on this trip —
| GPS # | Location | Latitude, Longitude | Notes |
| 112 | Caleb’s Quarry | N 43.20092, W 78.46021 | Bryozoans in Lewiston E |
| 113 | Gasport Quarry | N 43.19973, W 78.54436 | Lewiston E, Burleigh Hill contact |
| 114 | Gasport Road | N 43.19144, W 78.57550 | |
| 115 | Niagara Rd/Railroad North | N 43.17556, W 78.72086 | Top of Lewiston B |
| 116 | Niagara Rd/Railroad South | N 43.17377, W 78.72364 | Top of Lewiston E |
| 117 | Cherokee Unconformity | N 43.18355, W 78.70266 | |
| 118 | Craine Street | N 43.17995, W 78.71020 | Gasport Formation, glacially-truncated fossils |
| 119 | Hickory Corners parking | N 43.18435, W 78.75449 | Reynales, Hickory Corners Member; Aeronian |
| 120 | Niagara Gorge Lewiston B | N 43.14851, W 79.04095 | Lewiston B; Sarle Reefs |
| 121 | Buffalo Creek South | N 42.84728, W 78.60229 | Wanakah; Rhipidomella beds |
| 122 | Buffalo Creek North | N 42.84871, W 78.60202 | Wanakah; Pleurodictyum beds |
| 123 | Bethany Center | N 42.93250, W 78.13408 | Centerfield Limestone Member, Ludlowville |
| 124 | Hickory Corners SR93 site | N 43.18464, W 78.75394 | Reynales, Hickory Corners Member; Aeronian |
| Jeddo Creek Tributary | N 43.20175, W 78.47350 | Carl’s “washings” locality; top of Lewiston B |
