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This morning I drove out to Braceville, Illinois to meet a group of ESCONI (Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois) members for one of the annual Braceville Shaft Mine trips to collect Mazon Creek concretions. The temp at 7:45 am was a brisk 45 degrees, but warmed up quickly. As in past visits, I brought 7 buckets of fossils so the leaders could dump out for the participants. On this trip I brought opened Mazon Creek concretions, Pliocene shells and some dugong bones from Florida, Echinoids from Morocco, Pennsylvanian, Ordovician and Mississippian hash plates and some other miscellaneous fossils. I only spent 1 hour at the site, for the purpose of taking pictures. I know that there were Fossil Forum members present, but alas, I do not know the tag names. I do know that Rich @stats was there, but we did not see each other. At 8:00 am people who have attended this trip before began to walk the 1/4 mile in to the collecting area. Others stayed by the cars for a quick tutorial on the area and what they are going to look for as well as the rules for visiting this Private area. Here are some pics of the area and the approximate 50 participants that attended today's trip and there will probably be that many tomorrow. CONTINUED ON NEXT POST-
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