Abstract :
For generations fossil hunting has been a backbreaking process of laboriously picking and shoveling remains of prehistoric fauna out of rock and clay way out in a sun-baked desert. Today a huge electric shovel excavated fossilized fishes which lived in the Devonian period. It is doing this in a suburban region that some day will be overgrown by Cleveland and will be rendered forbidden ground for the excavations of paleontologists. The shovel is digging up geologic information by the ton, its electric power having removed all back-break from the process.
