- Sinuous: Having many curves and turns.
- Half-graben: a geological structure bounded by a fault along one side of its boundaries
The East Berlin Formation is an astonishing combination of sandstone, mudstone, and shale. Its importance lies in the fact that it contains an abundance of preserved dinosaur footprints. The photo with the large slab of sandstone containing dinosaur footprints is amazing. It is unbelievable that we were able to find footprints of those that once roamed the earth all that many years ago. In the black shale layers were fossil fish.
In the Connecticut Valley fossils and footprints were found dating back to the Triassic and Jurassic periods. Several dinosaurs are thought to have lived there including Anchisaurus, Coelophysis, Ammosaurus, and Yaleosuarus. The size of the prints is crucial to archaeologists since from there they can determine other physical properties such as height, posture and weight. Footprints may tell us a lot but questions such as how they hunted or how their bodies function, may never be answered.
