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Central Pennsylvania (USA); Pottsville Formation, grey shale.... in situ boulder removed and split at home For starters, it does split but it also kinda breaks into hunks and crumbles a bit. Is that correctly described as "nodular shale"? There are a lot of slender black long things without a great deal of definition, and one piece has these round shapes. I think I'm looking at Stigmaria rootlets and where the rootlets attach to the main root. I'll try to add photos of presumed rootlets later. Would welcome any further enlightment. Thanks!
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I'm still a rookie.... if I'm going out to look at formation X I like to read about what to expect from that time period. Recently I was reading about Pottsville formation, which includes conglomerates and molasse, deposited during nearby orogeny. That got me thinking.... by definition conglomerates and molasse will contain "chunks" that are older than the formation itself. So could these hunks have atypically older fossils? For example, say a fossiliferous rock forms in the silurian, then later in the carboniferous pieces of that rock are moved and deposited elsewhere, and still later along comes a blundering fossil nerd wannabe like myself, is dating fossils in such a layer ever a bit like picking through a nut-filled brownie? Younger fossils in the "cake" matrix and maybe older ones in the "walnuts"? Or do the processes involved pertty much destroy the older fossils before the brownies finally come out of the oven?
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I am a quarry geologist in PA and rarely need to identify fossils. However, I found this cool one that I just can't ID from publications if google searches. It was found in a quarry near Pottsville and St. Clair, PA. It is from the base of the Llewellyn Formation. I found some photos of fossils that look similar but usually each "scale" (not sure of the proper term) is more like an inch, but as you can see by the penny in the picture these are much smaller. Help!
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