Too see how creative people can get, let’s make a list of random ways to die in the Hells Creek Formation, for fun and humorous intent of course.

Ill start: Getting rammed and impaled by a triceratops porosus

You continue!

Just after and painlessly, no wait... 🤑

Can you clarify what the Hell’s Creek formation is?

1 hour ago, swansont said:

Can you clarify what the Hell’s Creek formation is?

It’s relatively hard to summarize, here is a Wikipedia page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Creek_Formation#

I've been to a couple of the sites, which extend into ND and SD (about an hour north of me), as well as Montana. The Tanis site in ND has areas where you can see a layer of glass tektites along the K-T boundary (now called the K-Pg) from the Chicxulub impact. I've also been to the museum in Bozeman MT which has some beautiful specimens from the original Hell Creek site (not Hell's, just Hell) near Jordan MT.

The major way to die, along the K-Pg boundary, is to starve and freeze, due to the Chicxulub strike and ensuing asteroid winter. I do not recommend this period to would be time travelers. And FFS don't step on any butterflies.

1 hour ago, Sohan Lalwani said:

It’s relatively hard to summarize, here is a Wikipedia page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Creek_Formation#

Thank you

14 minutes ago, swansont said:

Thank you

Anytime!

41 minutes ago, TheVat said:

I've been to a couple of the sites, which extend into ND and SD (about an hour north of me), as well as Montana. The Tanis site in ND has areas where you can see a layer of glass tektites along the K-T boundary (now called the K-Pg) from the Chicxulub impact. I've also been to the museum in Bozeman MT which has some beautiful specimens from the original Hell Creek site (not Hell's, just Hell) near Jordan MT.

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how lucky you are!

On 6/1/2025 at 9:27 PM, TheVat said:

I've been to a couple of the sites, which extend into ND and SD (about an hour north of me), as well as Montana. The Tanis site in ND has areas where you can see a layer of glass tektites along the K-T boundary (now called the K-Pg) from the Chicxulub impact. I've also been to the museum in Bozeman MT which has some beautiful specimens from the original Hell Creek site (not Hell's, just Hell) near Jordan MT.

The major way to die, along the K-Pg boundary, is to starve and freeze, due to the Chicxulub strike and ensuing asteroid winter. I do not recommend this period to would be time travelers. And FFS don't step on any butterflies.

Very interesting. I didn’t know about the Western Interior Seaway until now. Nor that the first part of the Tertiary has been renamed Palaeogene. Palaeocene I knew, but there seems to be now this umbrella term for a wider timespan within the Cenozoic. It’s hard to keep up…..

Just now, exchemist said:

Very interesting. I didn’t know about the Western Interior Seaway until now. Nor that the first part of the Tertiary has been renamed Palaeogene. Palaeocene I knew, but there seems to be now this umbrella term for a wider timespan within the Cenozoic. It’s hard to keep up…..

Indeed it's hard to keep up or cross correlate since not only did certain epochs occur at different times around the globe in different places, (due to tectonic shifting) but also the names vary from continent to continent.

Most of the UK names came from Scottish geology -those in Europe from alpine nations.

There is much work being done in cross correlation these days.