Post by fernwood on Nov 4, 2019 9:22:24 GMT -5
Random Question
I have been called out many times for not correctly identifying items from Wisconsin, based on what local rock/geology experts told me they were.
Is there any way that everyone can agree that the advice from local experts in lapidary or college geology professors ID is an accepted method of ID?
I understand that there are few experts here who are knowledgeable about many Wisconsin rocks.
I have done everything I can to learn on how to ID things. Even what the glaciers dropped down.
Billy, Rich and some others understand the unique geology of this area.
No, many fossils and rocks found in WI should not be here. No, my official designation as living in the "driftless area", means no glacial activity occurred here.
I was able to work with local UW professors, my son in law who is one course short of a geology minor, the local Natural History Museum Director, my own knowledge of glacial features and determined the following.
Yes, the most reticent WI glacier ended on my land. Yes, the glacial, Lake Wisconsin ended on my lend. Plenty of geological features determined that.
What does this mean? The glacier and lake deposited many rocks and fossils here.
No they were not random droppings across 40 acres from someone leaving their rock/fossil collection. These were deposited by nature, not a person.
So, how can I obtain credibility on my knowledge and that of others?
I really hate when I am told that what I find on my land was left by a person who got it elsewhere.
Why would someone drop a fossil shark tooth along a trail in my woods? Why would they leave random coral fossils over 20 acres? Why would they drop other agates/fossils, some which I found after the land was plowed? This included some Amethyst, Malachite, Lake superior Agates, etc. All makes sense to me, as glaciers move many things.
I know where I live is unique due to glacial activity.
Do not understand why others keep saying what is on my land was deposited by others liquidating a rock/fossil collections. I know the past owners of this land for the past 50 years. They have aid that neither them, nor any friends were into rock/fossil collecting.
So, what am I to do? Assume the past owners lied to me? That yes, they had friends who deposited agates, fossils and other rocks on the land?
Or do I stand form, based on my geology research and hat local experts told me?
Positive ID is becoming more important and I am trying to do it riht.
Thank you.
I have been called out many times for not correctly identifying items from Wisconsin, based on what local rock/geology experts told me they were.
Is there any way that everyone can agree that the advice from local experts in lapidary or college geology professors ID is an accepted method of ID?
I understand that there are few experts here who are knowledgeable about many Wisconsin rocks.
I have done everything I can to learn on how to ID things. Even what the glaciers dropped down.
Billy, Rich and some others understand the unique geology of this area.
No, many fossils and rocks found in WI should not be here. No, my official designation as living in the "driftless area", means no glacial activity occurred here.
I was able to work with local UW professors, my son in law who is one course short of a geology minor, the local Natural History Museum Director, my own knowledge of glacial features and determined the following.
Yes, the most reticent WI glacier ended on my land. Yes, the glacial, Lake Wisconsin ended on my lend. Plenty of geological features determined that.
What does this mean? The glacier and lake deposited many rocks and fossils here.
No they were not random droppings across 40 acres from someone leaving their rock/fossil collection. These were deposited by nature, not a person.
So, how can I obtain credibility on my knowledge and that of others?
I really hate when I am told that what I find on my land was left by a person who got it elsewhere.
Why would someone drop a fossil shark tooth along a trail in my woods? Why would they leave random coral fossils over 20 acres? Why would they drop other agates/fossils, some which I found after the land was plowed? This included some Amethyst, Malachite, Lake superior Agates, etc. All makes sense to me, as glaciers move many things.
I know where I live is unique due to glacial activity.
Do not understand why others keep saying what is on my land was deposited by others liquidating a rock/fossil collections. I know the past owners of this land for the past 50 years. They have aid that neither them, nor any friends were into rock/fossil collecting.
So, what am I to do? Assume the past owners lied to me? That yes, they had friends who deposited agates, fossils and other rocks on the land?
Or do I stand form, based on my geology research and hat local experts told me?
Positive ID is becoming more important and I am trying to do it riht.
Thank you.
