Fossils at the Beach

Since serving as a docent at Torrey Pines State Beach in 1991, Wesley Farmer has combined his love for that mile-long beach with his interest in paleontology to make a photographic record of the wealth of fossils revealed whenever the bluffs crumble. Entirely on his own time and without grants or other financial aid, he has compiled thousands of photos documenting the changing faces of the sandstone bluffs, locations of Eocene Epoch fossils (55–35 million years ago), and the fossils themselves. He is also trying to make this archive available to people and institutions who might find it useful.

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