Robbie and I head to the ranch's excellent five-stand sporting clays course for a little warm up.
It is the oldest permitted sporting clays and shotgun shooting club in the country, founded 103 years ago.
James took me to the first practice stand and talked me through his philosophy of shooting clays and birds.
We took a break for a hearty lunch in the clubhouse, then ventured out to the 30-stand clays course.
Sandanona is an Orvis-owned sporting clays and hunting spot in Millbrook, New York, just a short drive from the city.
Activities are numerous and well organized--I shot clays and joined a low-intensity, three-hour Cascades Gorge hike with the hilarious guide Brian LaFountain.
The china clay industry in Cornwall was started nearly 300 years ago by English China Clays, which was taken over by Imerys in 1999.
"The nature of the rocks that we have found, that we think are the ones that contain the clays, are very soft, " explained Prof Squyres.
In 2007 he was moved out of his home on the Clays Lane Estate in Newham, east London, to make way for the site of the Olympics.
Every hole could fit some 400 canisters, each containing a half ton of spent fuel, and would be topped with hundreds of feet of absorbent clays and concrete.
Clays are water-loving materials (just ask any friends who make pottery), sometimes forming from the interaction of water and different kinds of precursor volcanic rocks, and holding much of that water within their mineral structures.
"Not only was water active in this region to weather the rocks, but there was enough of it to run through the beds, transport the clays and run into the lake and form the delta, " said Ms Ehlmann.
She added that the deltas appeared to be excellent candidates for finding stored organic matter, because the clays brought in from the watershed and deposited in the lake would have trapped any organisms, leaving a "cemetery of microbes".
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