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My fiance' and I went fossil hunting by the river and collected some things . Does this look like a piece of a horse tooth? Can't figure out what the second picture could be though.
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Does anyone know where i can get a decent affordable air scribe for prepping? Something under $100 . Some of the ones ive seen are over that. Thanks
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Hi , have a few rocks i would like to identify if possible. Can anyone help with these found at Aust cliffs in the uk
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Oh how I miss going to the library! Alas, that’s another story. So.... is there ANY difference between chert and flint? Is it really just geologist versus historian? I have some beautiful blue pieces, but I also have some that are the milky kinda waxy white color, and a few brown with small green places. I just don’t want to label anything wrong. Thank y’all for the help!
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Ahhhh, this curiosity of mine... I am so glad that the folks on this forum love to teach and help a novice like me! The closer and closer I look at a rock, the more fascinated I am by it. I found what looked like a "plain old rock" today. (IS there such a thing?!) I cleaned it and started looking at it under a magnifying glass. There was a little hole in the rock, so I decided to try to see what was IN the hole. As I examined it, I realized that it was a bit like looking into a cave in a hillside. How fun! Of course that just brought on more questions, though. I photographed one particular area from different perspectives and looked at it even closer. I am not seeing the fan like bryozoan fossils I have seen in my other fossiliferous (I love that word) limestone - unless I am looking at it from a completely different angle (a possibility!!). From one perspective (the one I am posting here), there are two pieces that seem like they might have originally been connected - kind of like a shell of some sort that has a part removed from it? Like the curve might be broken? But the closer I looked, the more tubule like parts I thought I saw. So, here I am once again... Begging your patience and asking to glean from your vast experiences. This part of the rock is very small - I will add another photo of it with a ruler to show scale. I can include photos of the entire rock but I am trying to study this one tiny spot on it for now? Thanks so much for your help! Edited to add: Found in Huntsville, Alabama. I also THINK I see some crinoid fossils elsewhere on this particular rock, if that helps with classification. From what I can tell so far, we are in the Mississipian age? Ramona
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I’m so sorry to bother anyone but Google Image search has sent me down days of rabbit holes. This rock is slightly magnetic (the magnet acts funny but it doesn’t stick). When rubbed against paper it rips it or imprints it but doesn’t leave residue at all (Even when wet) . Google keeps showing me meteorites but I’m not the type that thinks everything I have is a Native American tool or valuable crystal. All I did to clean it was spay it with a water bottle. With all the rain lots of stuff has came up to the top and this was found in that same grid square of 1foot x 1foot as the other weird things like sharpened points and in the foot sized square beside it was a couple of almost finished arrowheads. I live on the border of Lauderdale and Limestone counties in North Alabama. Please help or in a thousand years someone might find my laptop and phone with google stinks scratched into the screen.
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hopefully these little videos will work because I have a hard time with the pictures this may be easier for y’all to understand my question? 59223650294__99B2EC9F-02CA-48F9-B59F-077E7F7938F3.MOV
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While clearing rocks out of my garden I found two - this is one. I took these pictures with my phone - I have others taken with a high-end camera, but as I see things in these pictures I don't see in those, I'm going with these to start. They're from Moosebec Reach I think, between Jonesport and Beals Island. Since there were two together, I imagine someone found them and eventually dumped them "out back". That is all I know ... anyone???????
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Does anyone know what this could be? Whether that’s a fossil or a rock lol I’ve tried to research around it but I haven’t gotten anything just yet
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I decided to check out Whiskey bridge in college station. Awesome place, it’s beautiful. U can see where people have been chipping away looking for fossils. Cracked open one of these geode balls and found pyrite inside and found this large round ball that looks like a clam, gonna clean it to see what it is
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My daughter is currently interested in fossils after finding the small collection I put together as a child. Whenever we get for a walk by our local river I end up with as many of these as she can make me carry. Are they actually fossils, and if so, what are they? Thanks in advance
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On a recent dig, we found these rocks that all share magnetic properties, and for the life of me, I can't identify them. I'm the fossil ID guy on our team, and my geologist is currently on holiday in Europe, and I'm just not patient. haha! What do you think? Here are a few pictures of the rocks in question.
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Des Plaines Valley (Illinois) Geological Society Rock / Fossil Show
Nimravis posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Today I went to two different Rock / Mineral / Fossil Shows today, I will post each one separately. The Des Plaines Valley Geological Show is a small show, but with small shows you can find some nice / different things, but that was not the case today. I did visit this show last year and posted a report and many of the same fossils that were available then were still available today. I will go back to this show next year to see if there is something that strikes my fancy (First time I ever typed that phrase- LOL). Here are some overall pics of the show and some of the fossils.
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Hi all, I recently acquired a nice gem and mineral collection. I found out later that the collection originally belonged to a Dorothy (Dottie) Elam who was active in various clubs. Unfortunately this collection was hastily tossed into boxes and into the trunk of a car. Fortunately, it is largely intact. Dottie clearly spent a lot of time and effort on this and I plan get it back in order. I'm curious what the various colored stickers and smiley (and some frowns) faces mean on the boxes. I'm only just beginning to figure out how this is organized but there are cards for each fossil with good information. Some of the specimens were field collected, many were purchased, and quite a few were gifts from the late Charlie Hall. I attached some pictures. I'm pretty excited about having this! Thanks, Rick
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I have seen slabs of this kind of stone where I collect my fossils. Yesterday, I found a piece with a leaf impression and was wondering if this is an "old" rock and if the leaf impression is a fossil. (I do ask around and search online, but I get stuck often. Thx)
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Going really basic here being new on the fossil game i wanted to know how a fossil gets created because i have read that the bone gets replaced by rock or sediments and they take its original form but if that's the case then we are not holding teeth, we are holding rocks in the form of teeth when holding a fossilized tooth for example. I don't really know so if someone could please explain to me if the fossil is actual tooth like it was back then or it becomes rock and the general process it would be much appreciated.
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I have been into flint knapping for the last 2 months and wanted to know how to properly identify rocks that could and have been knapped. For this I have gathered rocks from glacial till around my area and sidewalks.
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Ilove finding out more about the past,and the people and animals that were here before us..
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Since joining this group, I've realized the importance of knowing what time period your fossils are coming from, but how do you do that? For example, say I'm out collecting at a road cut, how would I know when the fossils are from? I apologize if this seems like a dumb question.
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Here is another show that I visited today, I really had my hopes up high for this show and arrived 1 hour early to it's 9 am start time. This sale was billed as the largest sale that the Wheaton College Geology Department has ever held. I was 8th in line and by the time the show opened there were about 70 people in line. There were 4 rooms on the lower level that held the items for sale. Each person was given a ticket with a number and we were advised to grab a box or bag that was located on the lower level and place the items that the person selected into the box / bag and then write your number on it and pay at the end. I would say that 99% of the items for sale were rocks and minerals, the fossils were located on one table in one of the rooms. The information on this sale stated that the prices on the items were lower than rock stores, that may have been true for the rocks and minerals, but the majority of the fossils were very high. Regarding the fossils, there really was nothing to write home about. I did pick up one piece identified as "Columnar Stromatolite" for $10.00. One thing that I was surprised with, especially seeing that these were supposed to be items that were the property of the Geology Department, was that lack of identification on the fossil specimens that were offered. After I post some pictures of the fossils for sale, I will add some pictures of the fossils that the school had on display. Here is the piece of Stromatolite that I purchased. Here are some pictures of their displays.
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Hunting With The Curator of the CMM Apr 4 2019
FossilsAnonymous posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
It was a glorious day to fossil hunt. Warm with a soft breeze and still slightly chilly water. See, I had gotten incredibly lucky. I had gotten a connection to Dr Stephen Godfrey and he invited me to hunt today at a classified location (sorry I am not allowed to spill the beans). Our friend Mr Eric came along as well as MomAnonymous. As soon as we had gotten there, interesting things began to appear. Dr Godfrey began to point out things i'd never had understood without being told. At the bottom of the cliff face, Dr Godfrey pointed to a strange indentation and then told us a story about he and other paleontologists finding completely intact fish skulls at the cliffs, which are nigh on impossible to find. Then he told us that the skulls were a type of tilefish, which as some may know burrow through mud. These tilefish buried themselves in these burrows and they became a kind of tomb, which is why they stayed intact and weren't destroyed. At this time, the Hobbit (movie) had just came out and when Dr Godfrey was given the ok to name the species, he went from something from the Hobbit. Dwarves tunneled, and their mountain was named the Lonely Mountain, and Erebor in the elvish language, and the species became Eraborensis.
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Hello from Elgin, Texas! Thank you for adding this totally GREEN NEWBIE to the Fossil Forum! The reason I joined is because I have a seasonal creek that runs through my property that is full of rocks, fossils, and goodies that I have no idea what they are LOL. I'll post pictures of the more "interesting" things that I find. I plan on spending time in the "ID" section so I can get 'edumacated' over there as well. I look forward to interesting and fun conversation! Eileen
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Chicago Rock and Mineral Society - 70th Annual Silent Auction
Nimravis posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Tonight I decided to stop by the Chicago Rock and Mineral Societies 70th Annual Silent Auction which ran from 6pm - 9pm. This was the first time that I have attended this event and since it was a rainy night and only 40 miles from home I figured I stop by to see what they had. Here are a couple pics of the event- Most people were interested in the Rocks and Minerals and not the few fossils that were offered, and I hate seeing fossils up for auction and no one bidding, so I did and picked up a couple items that I did not need. This first piece is from Mazon Creek and I do love bark, so I got this piece for $3.00- Calamites bark with a great cross section of an internode. Here are 3 pieces of Pennsylvanian black shale that contain Shark Spines- these are from Illinois and I forget which Pit they come from and they only cot 50 cents each. I definitely did not need this next flat of Upper Ordovician Isorthoceras sociale cephalopods, but I could not just let them sit there without anyone putting down the starting bid of $1.00. I wrote down $1.00 and this was the last table to close and no one raised it, so I brought them home. I was planning on collecting from this site again this year after the MAPS Show. These two larger pieces of Turritella Agate from I believe Wyoming were a good price at $2.00 each- one slab is natural and the other slab is cut and polished on both sides. I also picked up these 5 echinoids and 1 gastropod that were supposed to have been collected in July of 1967 in Salenia, Texas- I picked these pieces up for 50 cents each. Here are a bunch of brachiopods and 1 horn coral that I got for a few dollars, but I do not have a location or age on these, If someone can help out it would be appreciated @Tidgy's Dad @Peat Burns- I believe that they are all from the same location. I’m thinking maybe Devonian from New York or Ohio? Here is a small trilobite that may be complete within the matrix- unknown location. I picked this up for 50 cents as well as this other piece with multiple brachiopods, believe it maybe Ordovician Sowerbyella rugosa. All in all, it was a good time and I helped them get rid of some stuff that they did not have to pack up and take back.
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Check out this huge amethyst crystal dug up in North Carolina Video link
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How do i free Ammonites or fossils from the rock? Tool advice.
Fossilywend posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
Help please. Complete beginner, first time hunting for fossils in Yorkshire, England (kettleness) I have no tools, just my hands and eyes at the minute Ive found a few ammonites which I would like to free. Thus far Ive watched youtube videos and googled only; they make it look so easy with just a hammer. My first attempt I broke the end off my ammonite and now afraid to try again. Please advise for tools and extraction methods? Also, how do I care for them once they are freed? many thanks!
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