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Post by 1dave on Nov 3, 2021 17:19:37 GMT -5
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Post by 1dave on Nov 3, 2021 17:41:35 GMT -5
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Post by knave on Nov 3, 2021 17:50:05 GMT -5
Randy is your coprolite from Utah or Wyoming? And which general quadrant?
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Post by RWA3006 on Nov 3, 2021 18:58:20 GMT -5
Randy, Is this a new Uranium Mine? It's been there for at least five years that I'm aware of and I don't know if it's uranium or what. I wonder every time I drive past and I notice there's not much traffic or activity that's obvious.
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Post by RWA3006 on Nov 3, 2021 19:08:03 GMT -5
Randy is your coprolite from Utah or Wyoming? And which general quadrant? I focus on the Utah material because all the Wyoming stuff I'm familiar with does not have the highly agatized, popping colors and interesting patterns that are in Utah material. The Shootaring Canyon area is the source for most of my coprolites. Coprolite is known to be found from the Escalante area to the west, all the way East to Moab and North to Green River, and South to Lake Powel. This is a vast area and I'm sure there are many exposures where coprolite is eroding out of the Morrison Formation. I scout for new deposits by simply covering country and watching for the characteristic greenish/purple hills that often indicate the Morrison.
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Post by jasoninsd on Nov 3, 2021 19:24:06 GMT -5
Randy, Is this a new Uranium Mine? It's been there for at least five years that I'm aware of and I don't know if it's uranium or what. I wonder every time I drive past and I notice there's not much traffic or activity that's obvious. Do the people who work there look like this? If so...then it's probably a uranium mine!
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Post by 1dave on Nov 3, 2021 20:00:25 GMT -5
Remember circa 137 MYA The Midas Comet hit the area and ended Jurassic Time.
Here are some Geologic Maps of the area by Lehi Hintze.
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Post by knave on Nov 3, 2021 20:05:30 GMT -5
Wow guys appears I didn’t read up. Haha I was just wondering which corner of which state. To label it.
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Post by RWA3006 on Nov 3, 2021 20:11:04 GMT -5
Do the people who work there look like this? If so...then it's probably a uranium mine! I swear I've got to stop procrastinating and get a geiger counter because so many of the coprolites I find are in close proximity of uranium sources! I could have some hot sh!t on my hands.
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Post by jasoninsd on Nov 3, 2021 20:17:34 GMT -5
Do the people who work there look like this? If so...then it's probably a uranium mine! I swear I've got to stop procrastinating and get a geiger counter because so many of the coprolites I find are in close proximity of uranium sources! I could have some hot sh!t on my hands. From a safety standpoint...yes! From a "it'd be SO cool to have a geiger counter and feel like I have to use it as well as bragging about having it and using it" standpoint...even more yes!
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Post by Son Of Beach on Nov 3, 2021 20:37:16 GMT -5
Remember circa 137 MYA The Midas Comet hit the area and ended Jurassic Time.
Here are some Geologic Maps of the area by Lehi Hintze. 1dave You are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you
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Post by holajonathan on Nov 3, 2021 22:30:34 GMT -5
Do the people who work there look like this? If so...then it's probably a uranium mine! I swear I've got to stop procrastinating and get a geiger counter because so many of the coprolites I find are in close proximity of uranium sources! I could have some hot sh!t on my hands. Uranium ore is only very slightly radioactive. Over 99% of naturally occurring uranium is the isotope uranium-238, which has a half-life of 4.468 billion years. That means it decays very slowly, giving off very little radiation. Uranium-235 is the active isotope in nuclear reactor fuel, and that is not very radioactive or dangerous either. Nuclear reactor waste (spent fuel rods) is the stuff to worry a lot about. This coming from someone who lives about 7 miles from the Fermi II Nuclear Power Plant, where they've been storing spent fuel rods on site for over half a century. They've got 600-700 tons of it sitting in storage pools right next to lake Erie, with no idea of how or where to dispose of it. All the local pharmacies around my house give out free pills of high dose iodine which are to be taken in the case of a radioactive release. The iodine in the pill binds to thyroid gland, preventing radioactive iodine (one of the nasty waste products of a nuclear reactor) from binding to the thyroid. A good friend of mine is the head of operations at the Fermi nuclear plant, and I believe him when he tells me it is an extraordinarily safe and professionally run facility. He's more worried about his exposure to the magnetic fields created on the power generation side of the plant than he is about radiation. But after seeing what happened in Japan a few years ago, anything is possible.
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Post by RWA3006 on Nov 4, 2021 11:41:21 GMT -5
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Post by 1dave on Nov 4, 2021 16:08:46 GMT -5
Dung Beetles live 2-3 years. You may find a corpse some day.
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Post by RWA3006 on Nov 4, 2021 18:02:09 GMT -5
Dung Beetles live 2-3 years. You may find a corpse some day. I think it's just a matter of time till I find a beetle remnant. I need to tune my eye to be watching for this. Interpretation of this material is something I should be working on.
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Post by fernwood on Nov 5, 2021 5:47:44 GMT -5
That is a very cool specimen. So different than others you post.
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Post by RickB on Nov 5, 2021 9:46:14 GMT -5
It has a neat orby doo doo thing going on.
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Post by RWA3006 on Nov 6, 2021 10:56:08 GMT -5
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Post by 1dave on Nov 6, 2021 11:55:27 GMT -5
A GAStronomic DElight.
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Post by RWA3006 on Nov 7, 2021 10:53:31 GMT -5
Not sure if I've shown this one before, but oh well. This specimen is rare in that it has splotches of marcasite within it.
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