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Well I went to the Inversand glauconite mining pit today endured large crowds over (500 people) but still had a great time and brought home some of the asteroid debris that ended the dinosaurs rule on earth and some small vertabrae from a baby Croc 75 million years old!!. The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary (formerly known as the K-T boundary) is a geological signature, usually a thin band, dated to 65.5 ± 0.3 Ma (million years) ago. K is the traditional abbreviation for the Cretaceous period, and Pg is the abbreviation for the Paleogene period. The boundary marks the end of the Mesozoic era and the beginning of the Cenozoic era, and is associated with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, a mass extinction, which is considered to be the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs.The boundary layer was once known as the K–T boundary, but Tertiary has been deprecated as a formal time or rock unit by the International Commission on Stratigraphy.

The mineral is usually light to dark grey in color but when mixed with the green sand Marl in which 5/8ths of the entire Eastern and Southern parts of the state of New Jersey is completely covered in, it takes on a darker look. In the picture below taken far away you can see the boundary line running horizontally . Dinosaurs and other marine and land based animals including the following have been found at this site. Mosasaurus maximus, Hadrosaurus foulkii , giant sea turtles,Crocodiles,Fish,and many shell fossils are found BELOW this line. None are found above it. This holds true around the world as this iridium finger print is everywhere signaling a mass event never seen before in the earths history.

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2.Just a bunch of pictures from the pit to follow.

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8 the arcies as they are known at this place in this case Drexel University students studying in, and acquiring Masters degrees in Paleontology.

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9. This big guy found a 5 foot circumference 75 million year old sea turtle yesterday and have to give up the find to the lead paleontologist who is much more skilled in the retrieval part of the digging.

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10. Tough to see but here is the turtle,this is to the right of the 5 paleontologists you just saw by about 35 feet.

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