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MILWAUKEE 鈥?When you think of Milwaukee, most people probably think about breweries, curds, and sports. But one thing is being overlooked that predates even Milwaukeeans love for brats by hundreds of millions of years. It s the Milwaukee Formation.The Milwaukee Formation is a category of rocks and fossils that can only be found in Milwaukee County and a bit of Ozaukee County. These foss
stanley isolierkanne ils date back 390 million years to the Devonian Period, which is before even the dinosaurs. In fact, these fossils are of all marine plants and animals. That long ago, Wisconsin was covered by a shallow ocean. The types of fossils in the ecosystem that was here is different from the entire region in the Midwest where the same rocks are found, Scott Schaefer, the collections manager at the Weis Earth Science Museum in Menasha, said. You can hand me 10 fossils from our package of rocks and I will be able to
stanley cup exclusively know it is a Milwaukee Formation, not the Devonian of New York, Michigan, or elsewhere. Meaning, these are incredibly distinct to a very small region of the world. It just so happens that the small region is the Cream City. What
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