Neufchâtel Cheese Geology: Look! A Fossil!

Those of you who follow me on G+ know that on occasion, I would sometimes post pictures of my Greek yogurt and talk about the geological features therein. (You also know I post an inordinate number of photos of my elderly cat. Sorrynotsorry.) I don’t eat as much Greek yogurt as I used to, so there hasn’t been any Greek yogurt geology of late. But I did discover that Neufchâtel cheese also is a useful food item for illustrating geological concepts. Look at this amazing fossil it made when I was eating cheese and crackers before bed:

Image shows my fingers holding a small cracker. There's a conical bit of creamy white cheese on the end that tapers to a point at the far end. The wide, blunt end looks much like a scallop shell.
Neufchâtel cheese fossil. Looks like a scallop at the end, there, but what’s the conical shell behind it?

I don’t even know how it managed to do that. I was just scraping the cheese off the block willy-nilly, it’s not like I was trying to make it awesome.

Another image, this one processed to highlight the patterns in the cheese. It has a pearly sheen.
This view makes it look all pearly. Pretty!

I guess this is more Neufchâtel cheese paleontology, but I consider that science to be part and parcel of geology, so it’ll do. Besides, this is obviously fossiliferous limestone! I’ll leave you to speculate on the depositional environment, the climate, and other such things a fossil like this would tell us about the conditions in which these critters lived, died, and were preserved.

Well, they were preserved before I ate them, anyway. Delicious!

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Neufchâtel Cheese Geology: Look! A Fossil!
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3 thoughts on “Neufchâtel Cheese Geology: Look! A Fossil!

  1. rq
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    More inclined to getting et rather than fossilization. Anyone who tries to preserve cheese for the benefit of whatever civilization will arise a few million years from now is a fool – cheese is for etting, and etting a lot, and etting all the time. No traces.

  2. 3

    (In my best Church Lady impersonation) So, you create fake fossils and use them to teach about “millions and millions of years”? You know who else does that? Satan!

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