Event
Tea and Science: New fossil insects and plants from northern Labrador
Sunday, November 4, 2018 15:00to16:30
Redpath Museum
Dans salle 106/ In Room 106. , 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA
Price:
Fee/Entrée : $7 (+ taxes). Payable at the entrance.
Une conférence présenté / a special presentation:
By Alexandre Demers-Potvin (M. Sc. candidate, Hans Larsson Lab, Redpath Museum) and Noemie Sheppard (President, Redpath Museum Society)
Join us to carry on a tradition first started by the Museum's Founder: Sir William Dawson, to share new paleontological findings, the real fossils, and a cup of tea.
This summer, plant and insect fossils from the Cretaceous period were found in an abandoned open-pit mine near Schefferville, on the border between Québec and Labrador. They were collected in an expedition jointly led by Alexandre Demers-Potvin, of the Redpath Museum, and Mario Cournoyer, of the Musée de paléontologie et de l’évolution, in an attempt to reconstruct an extinct lake ecosystem surrounded by a broad-leafed forest at the time of the dinosaurs. The afternoon of November 4 will be a rare occasion for the public to examine some of these fossils and to share in the adventure of the expedition.
The presentation will be bilingual.
Everyone welcome.
RSVP: redpath.museum [at] mcgill.ca