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Submitted by admin2 on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 8:27pmSeptember 22, 2007 - Mississipian Fossils, Blount Co, AL
Submitted by Nancy Kenfield Lea on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 5:21pmA trip to a quarry in the Mississippian age, Fort Payne chert was on the schedule for BPS' field trip in September. It was a beautiful day with a good turnout. THe quarry had been dug out since out last visit so we were able to look around the freshly-exposed areas. Sylvie and Michael made a heroic effort to find a trilobite in some of the material that resembled Frog Mtn. formation, but to no avail. We wandered freely over the huge quarry area, finding crinoid stems, brachiopods, corals and a number of nice geodes.
December 2, 2006 - Mississippian Fossils, St. Clair Co, AL
Submitted by Nancy Kenfield Lea on Mon, 12/04/2006 - 11:00pmA roadcut in St.
Clair County was a real
bonanza for BPS on this trip. A smaller crowd than usual came
along but found a very wide variety of fossils. Excitement
all
around as we spread out along the road cut. This is a
Mississippian age site where geologic uplift is obvious.
Several
varieties of coral,
October 28, 2006 - Mississippian Fossils, Blount Co, AL
Submitted by Nancy Kenfield Lea on Sun, 10/29/2006 - 11:00pmA trip
to Blount County
gave BPS a
chance to visit "crinoid stem central!"
While out on
a service call, Greg had the good fortune to meet a lady who had just
seen him on TV the night before, talking about the Homewood Library
fossil exhibit. She and her next door neighbor turned out to
be
June 03, 2006 - Paleocene Fossils, Clarke and Wilcox Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Mon, 06/05/2006 - 11:00pmToday BPS went way down south to Clarke County,
Alabama. We were
quite excited because this was a new site Steve found, and we were
chomping at the bit, ready to go. We found a good variety of
bivalves and gastropods, a few shark teeth and ray teeth. The
most numerous fossil we found is Flabellum
cuneiforme pachyphyllum, a type of