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...much happens in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, population 1800. Until last summer, that is, when two American paleontologists decided to poke around...
Neil H. Shubin, a fourth-year Harvard graduate student in biology, and Paul E. Olsen, a geology professor at Columbia University, had spent a relatively unproductive summer digging at the Nova Scotia site until a misadventure left them trapped by high tide near a cliff on the shore of the Bay of Fundy...
...specimens were first taken to the Nova Scotia Museum. Grantham, who said he embodies "the entire geological staff" of the museum, did not apply for a permit required to export "cultural" material. He said he had not known one was required...
...Start-up fees are modest (generally less than $50), but hourly costs can vary from $6 at night to as high as $15 during business hours, plus a surcharge for some features. This discourages many people from fully exploring the myriad services. Says Bill Pytlovany, a computer specialist from Scotia, N.Y.: "You tend to browse less when you know the meter is running...
Mark Anders, 38, a Berkeley graduate student who works with the Alvarez team, is methodically examining rock samples from the Nova Scotia site, looking for evidence of shocked quartz--grains with their normal crystalline pattern distorted by the kind of shock wave the Manicouagan impact would have produced. If he finds the mineral clues below the fossil deposits, he says, the impact probably preceded and could have caused the extinction, thus strengthening the Alvarez hypothesis...