fossilman
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Post by fossilman on Aug 1, 2007 22:53:30 GMT -5
an interesting idea... archaeologists have theorized for a while that the Cyclops was thought to have been invented by early Greeks stumbling upon mammoth skulls and othe rbone parts. The huge hole in the center of the skull was surmised to be the single eye socket.
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Post by fossilman on Aug 1, 2007 22:54:54 GMT -5
another very belated b-day wish to you, Harley!
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Post by fossilman on Jul 16, 2007 18:17:07 GMT -5
Hello all!
Thank you for the birthday wishes. I've been taking care of many personal things, and won't be on the board for probably a week or so unless I can find free internet access. I'll be out on the road, and hopefully will come back with a bunch of new rocks to post photos of.
Have fun rockhounding!
Dan
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Post by fossilman on Jun 26, 2007 20:16:06 GMT -5
Happy birthday!
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Post by fossilman on Jun 26, 2007 20:15:38 GMT -5
Happy B-day!
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Post by fossilman on Jun 21, 2007 9:44:58 GMT -5
have a rockin' happy birthday
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Post by fossilman on Jun 20, 2007 20:44:11 GMT -5
were you able to get any of those nice Afghani rocks? Lapis, aqua, etc?
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Post by fossilman on Jun 19, 2007 17:50:31 GMT -5
good to hear you're back in one piece. That vehicle sure isn't....
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Post by fossilman on Jun 19, 2007 1:15:34 GMT -5
a good dark chocolate, Chimay beer cheese, and a bottle of belgian abbey beer.
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Post by fossilman on Jun 16, 2007 11:08:29 GMT -5
leatherback turtle fossils are very rare. Any find like that is likely to be the highlight of any fossil hunter's life.
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Post by fossilman on Jun 15, 2007 21:15:46 GMT -5
cool find! It's rare to find reasonably complete turtles anywhere, except for the Nebraska-South Dakota badlands. I've found a few, but them, I am the fossilman
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Post by fossilman on Jun 16, 2007 12:57:14 GMT -5
I don't think a 100 pound cat could snap 80 pound deep sea test... that gear's used to go for sharks. Makes you wonder what's down there, same near the Lake Travis dam too.
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Post by fossilman on Jun 16, 2007 11:03:51 GMT -5
Once when I was out on Lake Buchanan near the dam, I was fishing with a deep sea rod and a 12 inch fish-shaped lure. Something massive hit it, bent over the deep sea rod, and actually started pulling our boat against the current. This was a 25 foot family / water skiing boat, mind you, not a fishing boat. Whatever it was eventually broke the 80 pound test. There's BIG ass stuff in that lake. If I remember right, that lake was built in the 40's, so there's the possibility of 60-80 year old fish in there.
Lake Buchanan is NOT a lake you want to be on when the waves pick up, they can swamp a small boat.
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Post by fossilman on Jun 15, 2007 21:13:19 GMT -5
The best carp fishing I know of in TX is Lake Buchanan. They regularly get 30-50 pounds. It's really fun to watch the 7 foot gars swim through a school of them and go nuts, impaling them on their pointy toothed snouts.
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Post by fossilman on Jun 8, 2007 1:33:13 GMT -5
we had so much rain here in Dallas that our heat resistant flowers we planted last month, which were doing fine and blooming like crazy, all drowned. There goes $30 in plants At least the weather in TN was pleasant last week, got a half ton of unakite from the Unaka Mountains. If only I had a use for it
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Post by fossilman on Jun 9, 2007 16:17:37 GMT -5
dang, good luck, you sure need it.
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Post by fossilman on May 24, 2007 22:47:17 GMT -5
that's actually possible. Camels first evolved in North America. You can find them in Oligocene - Pleistocene age sediments wherever they occur.
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RTH map
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Post by fossilman on Aug 22, 2007 7:51:53 GMT -5
I'm on the map too now!
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Post by fossilman on Aug 1, 2007 22:46:02 GMT -5
You can polish them on a cotton or other type lapidary wheel with ZAM (green waxy polish). ZAM polishes all sorts of very soft stones like malachite, azurite, calcite, fossil corals, etc. You do have to do them by hand, but you can get a mirror polish in no time. I use it so much I have a wheel specifically for it Dan
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Post by fossilman on Jun 22, 2007 1:39:12 GMT -5
have you tried Opticon, it's used to stabilize turquoise, and cracked slabs.
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