LA SALLE - Join the Canal Corridor Association for a three course meal and some Illinois history at their next dinner lecture titled, “Coal, Shale, and Ironstone: The Geology & Paleontology of Mazon Creek” presented by Andrew Young.
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Andrew Young
LA SALLE - Join the Canal Corridor Association for a three course meal and some Illinois history at their next dinner lecture titled, “Coal, Shale, and Ironstone: The Geology & Paleontology of Mazon Creek” presented by Andrew Young. The event will take place at the Lock 16 Café & Visitor Center in LaSalle on Thursday, Oct. 5 from 5:30–8 p.m.
Located in northeastern Illinois, Mazon Creek is an incredible fossil array of associated Upper Carboniferous plants and animals. Considered to be among the world’s great Lagerstätten, or Mother Lodes, this site’s numerous and delicately preserved soft-bodied animals are rarely seen in the fossil record, and many species have been singularly described from the deposit. Magnificent plant impressions, many of them ferns (to some, the quintessential prehistoric floral form) are beautifully preserved in iron carbonate nodules. The importance of Mazon Creek to understanding the story of our planet, and specifically the Pennsylvanian Period, was realized by science only in the mid-19th century. Considerable research has been done since then, perhaps providing the most comprehensive picture of life in the Late Paleozoic.
Andrew Young is a visual artist who studied biology, art history and studio art at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006, he received an invitation to join an expedition to Antarctica to study the wildlife and document studies of the earthquakes and ice movement in the region. A continued fascination with the human relationship to the natural world led him to curate an exhibition in 2011 titled, “Indexing the World: invention, abstraction and dissonance,” followed in 2012 by the publication of a book on Mazon Creek fossils of Illinois, and a solo painting show with the Chicago Academy of Sciences.
Reservations are required for this event. For pricing or to book, call (815) 220-1848 or visit www.iandmcanal.org.
The Canal Corridor Association, a 501(c)3 non-profit, is the coordinating entity for the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Area, America’s first national heritage area. As such it preserves history, protects nature and open space, and creates destinations where people can learn and have fun in the I&M Canal National Heritage Area from Chicago to LaSalle-Peru.
