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Post by radio on May 31, 2015 18:26:25 GMT -5
An older fellow stopped by my booth at the craft mall yesterday and was admiring the cabs and some rock specimens I have displayed. He mentioned he was a retired Geologist and complimented me on the displays of some pretty unique things. We started talking about fossils such as the Ammonites and Trilobites I had in jewelry and a couple of larger Trilobite and Orthoceras specimens in the cabinet. I mentioned I found a Trilobite in the creek behind my house and he practically called me a liar! He flatly stated that Missouri has nothing in this area except abundant Crinoid fossils. I asked him to explain how I also found several fossilized Oyster or Clam shells in this same creek and he said "someone must have tossed them there" I had a piece of Turitella Agate in the display that he also said was not Agate at all and the fossils in it were actually voids in the stone filled in with silica. Hmmm! I pulled up Turitella agate on my phone and showed him pictures of both the creatures and the fossils in the stone, so he kind of admitted this one was new to him is why he doubted my word. He departed with a promise from me to send pictures of the Trilobite I found as well as the formation I suspect it weathered out from. I also sent him home with a nice piece of tumble polished Turitella Agate Oh, he had also never seen Dino bone with color in it. I was oh so tempted to ask him if he spent his career under a rock
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Post by deb193redux on May 31, 2015 19:12:02 GMT -5
I have noted that geology curriculum seldom includes things of lapidary interest. it does usually include some paleontology, so this guy must have slept through some classes.
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