{"id":1502,"date":"2026-01-02T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/geo\/?page_id=1502"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:28:08","slug":"catalog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/geo\/catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Browse the Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The collection is curated towards being a growing accessible educational resource for our college community and the general public. The collection is catalogued in a digital platform that enables users to search and view the specimens in our collection. This allows our students, researchers and the general public to identify, access and engage with items of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the collection include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Local valley geologic samples from the Triassic and Jurassic period<\/li>\n<li>Rare armored mud balls<\/li>\n<li>\"In the Late Triassic\" painting by local artist Will Sillin<\/li>\n<li>Exhibit specializing in samples from glacial Lake Hitchcock<\/li>\n<li>Geology Path<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notable parts of the collections are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Charles Hull Collection<\/li>\n<li>The Becklo Dinosaur Trackway<\/li>\n<li>Ichnofossil Collection including burrows, borings (bioerosion), footprints, feeding marks, and root cavities.<\/li>\n<li>Albany, NY Fossil Collection (from a student field trip)<\/li>\n<li>The Educational Collection developed to teach students geological concepts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"feature-grid\"><table width=\"100%\" class=\"wpv-loop js-wpv-loop\"><tbody><tr><td>\n            <div class=\"item\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/geo\/files\/2026\/01\/rocks.jpg\" alt=\"Rocks\">\n                <div class=\"link\">\n                    <h3><a href=\"\/geo\/catalog\/rocks\">Rocks<\/a><\/h3>\n                    <div class=\"link-body\"><p><\/p><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/td><td>\n            <div class=\"item\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/geo\/files\/2026\/01\/fossils.jpg\" alt=\"Fossils\">\n                <div class=\"link\">\n                    <h3><a href=\"\/geo\/catalog\/fossils\">Fossils<\/a><\/h3>\n                    <div class=\"link-body\"><p><\/p><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/td><td>\n            <div class=\"item\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/geo\/files\/2026\/01\/minerals.jpg\" alt=\"Minerals\">\n                <div class=\"link\">\n                    <h3><a href=\"\/geo\/catalog\/minerals\">Minerals<\/a><\/h3>\n                    <div class=\"link-body\"><p><\/p><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collection is curated towards being a growing accessible educational resource for our college community and the general public. The collection is catalogued in a digital platform that enables users to search and view the specimens in our collection. This allows our students, researchers and the general public to identify, access and engage with items [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1530,"parent":0,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1502","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 14:43:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1502\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}