Descending down into the valley to the low areas, we found the mud.  One of the interesting features of this landscape comes from the days of mining where thousands of tons of "slag" would be excavated from underground and piled everywhere.  Pennsylvania has a long geological history of sedimentation where you'll find lots of fossils in the coalbeds and limestone.  Today in these locations, fossils are scattered everywhere.  Almost anywhere you'll find mining debris on these trails, you'll likely find fossils from the Paleozoic age.  Warm, shallow seas covered much of the state through the early Paleozoic, when Pennsylvania lay at the eastern edge of Laurentia continental plate. The seas teemed with marine organisms whose fossils can be found today in many rocks throughout the state.

 

Mike Playing on a boulder by the edge of the creek.