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How to use: Use the “get my location” button to search for localities near you. (Location services must be enabled for this to work.) Then click “Find Nearby Localities”. To find the layers, click on the button that looks like a bunch of squares stacked on top of one another. For a geologic map click “Microstat Geology”. (Layers may not load if zoomed out too far.) For the PBDB localities click “PBDB Localities”, or enable them both at the same time! I have not tested for countries other than the United States. You can also click the links on a locality to find a list of paleo-fauna. The map also appears to have removed the PBDB localities with incorrect coordinates. https://www.mindat.org/nearestlocs.php
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Sacramento Mountains - escarpment approach for a walkabout
Kato posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Due to lost climbing experience I had made a failed approach into an escarpment canyon climb last year. A few months later with skills rebuilt I decided to tackle one of the canyons on the east side of Alamogordo, NM again. The escarpment rise fairly abruptly from the trailhead. Approximately 1,100 feet in 1.3 miles to the highest point of the walkabout. This summary will include some pics from my earlier failed attempt. My goals...to visit a unique looking mud mound, find fossils and get away from it all. One the way up the canyon bottom I spotted this ghostly apparation in an exposed slab. Halycite? The main geologic feature of interest was this formation called 'Teepee Mound'. Look to left side of formation for teepee The geologists summary of what is going on My approach was to continue far up canyon to a higher altitude then cut back west to approach the teepee shape. About midway up the teepee shape from the east looking back to the basin. These formations were thick with crinoids. The teepee actually seemed to be suspended by columns of material. Likely supporting material leached away over the years by water.- 15 replies
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