MORE NORTH HERO STATE PARK VERMONT

The following is from the brochure put out by the Isle La Motte Preservation Trust: “The Isle La Motte in Vermont has an ancient reef believed to be almost half a billion years old. It is the world’s oldest reef in which corals first appear. The Isle La Motte is home to the most complete fossil record of the Chazy Reef. This reef began taking shape 480 million years ago at te bottom of a warm shallow sea south of the earth’s equator during what geologists all the Ordovician Period. Over a period of 10 million years, the reef grew from the calcium carbonate remains of he creatures in this ecosystem. Though the reef once stretched a thousand miles along the proto North American continent, most of it has disappeared or been destroyed by mountain building and other geologic forces. Only a few remnants of the great reef remain.”

We went to the Goodsell Ridge, the most famous reef site on Isle La Motte