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Post by snowmom on Mar 21, 2016 7:02:16 GMT -5
water level agate is outstanding, love the yellowstone river so dramatic! lotta nice cuts there.
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Post by snowmom on Mar 21, 2016 6:45:19 GMT -5
i picture this being handed down for generations. immortal! now that coooool!
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Post by snowmom on Mar 20, 2016 6:57:12 GMT -5
clever and cool... love it!
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Post by snowmom on Mar 20, 2016 6:54:04 GMT -5
those are looking good.
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Post by snowmom on Mar 20, 2016 6:47:12 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Mar 18, 2016 8:41:15 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Mar 18, 2016 7:50:04 GMT -5
beautiful! (jealous)
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Post by snowmom on Mar 18, 2016 7:14:22 GMT -5
fascinating. i had to go look it up.
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Post by snowmom on Mar 18, 2016 7:01:08 GMT -5
cladopora, thamnopora, pachypora... fossils are forever getting renamed something else and being re categorized into other sorts, as if it wasn't hard enough to determine what kind they are anyways. They are a form of tabulate coral known from the Silurian to Permian era. Even our beloved petoskey/ hexagoneria has been given a new name. can't keep up with the progress of science.
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Post by snowmom on Mar 18, 2016 6:50:57 GMT -5
no, most jasper is jasper... this just happens to have turned to jasper as it fossilized. stromatolite fossils may be the one of the most common on earth in one form or another. Kona dolomite is also fossil stromatolite. There are many other forms as well.
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Post by snowmom on Mar 13, 2016 10:21:32 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Mar 12, 2016 7:22:04 GMT -5
I can add a bit about osage orange. It was sold at some point before barbed wire as an ideal hedge fence material, and it is.... but it takes forever to grow. somebody made a fortune selling osage orange to English and european farmers who wanted to keep cattle and livestock confined and protect their homesteads the way the did in the old country.... from their native habitat they were spread all over KY, IL, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas and Missouri. It is a beautiful plant with glossy leaves and huge ornamental fruit which some people claim has insect repellent properties. They are getting fewer in number as modern farming roots out hedgerows for another row or 2 of crop. When suburbs go up, those messy fruits are not appreciated. They burn super hot like the densest coal, and are sought after as fire wood by some. You need the right tools to work with it. Very difficult to cut at any point, almost impossible when dry and seasoned. Where i used to live in Illinois, the farmers would bulldoze them, leave them for a year or 2 and then burn them. Too hard on chainsaws and the like. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/osage-oranges-take-a-bough-105043145/?no-ist
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Post by snowmom on Mar 12, 2016 7:01:25 GMT -5
possible ostracodes or formaniferans family. hard to tell from photo, looks like something in the center( a hinge or part of a body?) pretty small.
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Post by snowmom on Mar 12, 2016 6:53:07 GMT -5
hard to tell from these photos, though close up they are a little blurry. getting them wet and taking photos in clear strong daylight may help clarify details. Can you tell us the region this came from? Do you know what era (age) it is from...or if it is from a specific formation? by doing a little background searching you can narrow down to what fossils were in existence at that time. Makes ID a lot easier. best wishes A little search turned this up, might have some clues. www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/14606-fossil-hunting-in-the-catskills/
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Post by snowmom on Mar 12, 2016 6:49:04 GMT -5
hard to tell from these photos, though close up they are a little blurry. getting them wet and taking photos in clear strong daylight may help clarify details. Can you tell us the region this came from? Do you know what era (age) it is from...or if it is from a specific formation? by doing a little background searching you can narrow down to what fossils were in existence at that time. Makes ID a lot easier. best wishes
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Post by snowmom on Mar 12, 2016 6:43:26 GMT -5
red breccia for me! they're both great! keep them coming Mel. Living vicariously for another few days, the places i hunt are mostly still too ice and snow packed to get to safely.
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Post by snowmom on Mar 12, 2016 6:36:06 GMT -5
seems to be the case so many times in trying to work jade... sad it didn't work out for you the way you wanted.
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Post by snowmom on Mar 7, 2016 6:22:02 GMT -5
I have a MEJ addiction... rockjunquie got me hooked- love at first sight. Nice cabs and wraps... really nice piece of MEJ. fossilman Mike MEJ is fossil stromatolite...how cool is that?
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Post by snowmom on Mar 7, 2016 6:10:48 GMT -5
Just read an article telling about palm wood fossils having been found in the antarctic circle.... its evidently everywhere!
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Post by snowmom on Mar 7, 2016 6:08:11 GMT -5
yes, i found what i thought was pet palm near Cheboygan a long time ago. I've read that there is palm to be found in many old articles pertaining to fossils in this area as well. I had heard there were several places Illinois and Ohio, Pennsylvania, also I know there is pet wood in Canada in Alberta, Vancouver, Nunavet, Saskatchawan, and Edmonton, some of which could have arrived here as glacial erratics. The pink coral is considered quite rare, and pink petoskey brings a high price in some circles; wherever you found that, Rob, I'd be going back....very cool find!
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