Max Pitcher, the research geologist who studied the Chazy Reef in the 1960s, returns for a visit.
The Fisk Quarry as Habitat
At one time this site was part of a shallow tropical sea with an ecosystem in which an abundance of ancient marine animals lived. Today, a new ecosystem has evolved, vastly different from the reefs found near the equator 480 millon years ago.
Since the quarrying activies ceased, ground and surface water formed a system of wetlands on the Fisk Quarry Preserve with ponds and marshes in the old quarry excavation and adjacent wet meadow and woodland areas. Instead of an ancient ocean, you can see Big Pond, with shallow marshlands in other sections.
The Vermont Geological Association visits Fisk Quarry
Schoolchildren create rubbings of fossils in the stone
Visitors to the Fisk Quarry Preserve
Marlowe finds a cephalopod
The Isle La Motte Recreation Department’s Summer Nature Camp explores the Quarry
