Alabama

July 27, 2002 - Marshall Co, AL

This month, BPS members were given a private tour of Cathedral Caverns, located in North Alabama near Gant. Cathedral Caverns bosts the World's Largest Cave Opening, the World's Largest Stalagmite and the World's Largest Frozen Waterfall. The tour was a real treat!

 

July 3, 2002 - UCM Press Release

Press Release

WORLD-CLASS FOSSIL DISCOVERY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA


Just prior to the July 4th holiday last week, U.S. Representative Robert Aderholt (District 4) visited an extraordinary fossil discovery just northwest of Birmingham in Walker County.  Hosting Rep. Aderholt and his aide Bill Harris in a tour of the site were members of the Birmingham Paleontological Society (BPS), a local amateur fossil group, and a number of professional geologists and paleontologists who have participated in studying the fossils that have been recovered so far from the site.

May 24, 2002 - Lowndes Co, AL

BPS members spent the weekend of May 24-26 on a camping trip to a Lowndes County, Alabama, hunting club, to collect in creeks and gullies. We found crabs in nodules, ammonites, turritella, and had a great time! John brought his telescope, and we spent a long time just gazing at the stars at night, and joined the "next door neighbors" at their campfire.

April 14, 2002 - Walker Co, AL

Once again, BPS members visited a coal mine in Walker County, Alabama, where many varieties of plant fossils were found.

March 23, 2002 - Walker Co, AL

BPS members visited a private museum owned by one of our newest members - wonderful specimens, as he has worked around mines most of his life. Then we went to Taft Coal mine in Walker County, Alabama for collecting.

February 23, 2002 - Franklin Co, AL

BPS members collected in the Bangor Limestone in Franklin County, Alabama, and made several stops at roadcuts in the area. Specimens from this site date to the late Mississipian Period of geological history (about 320 million years).

January 12, 2002 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL

We collected in Cherokee County, Alabama, in the pebbles and shaley outcrops around a lake, which was low for the winter, exposing a wide shoreline. An outcrop of the Middle Cambrian Conasauga Shale of the Coosa Valley is at this site, and numerous trilobites were found. A number of members went scouting for new sites in the area.

November 17, 2001 - Walker Co, AL

BPS members collected in coal mines in Walker County, Alabama again this month. Fossils are prolific in the spoil piles of these mines.

October 6, 2001 - Walker Co, AL

This month BPS members collected in several Walker County, Alabama coal strip mines.

September 29, 2001 - Covington Co, AL

BPS members collected in and around a river in Covington County, Alabama this month. Numerous shark teeth, ray teeth, bones and various shell material was found.

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