rock wall repair... with fossils

[jpc]

I spent a good part of several mornings in the past three weekends doing a honeydew project, repairing our rock wall.  (It got too hot in the afternoons).

Here is the reason for the project.

 

The problem... the wall is falling apart, and it contains no fossils, as seen above.  

I had to look up how to do this on the interwebs.  But it was pretty simple in the end.  Below is a piece of Dungenanoceras from just down the road.  (OK, about an hour and half down the road).

 

below, a piece of rock from Oklahoma with a trilobite tail and a brachiopod.  To the right, a local baculite in matrix.

 

Below, a local beryl crystal in matrix, a piece of Blue Forest wood (western Wyoming), another local ammonite (Prionocyclus) and a marble my wife found.  She was weeding the garden while I worked on the wall.  

 

The cornerstone is a pretty nice ammonite from France.  

To prove that I am no professional, I made no effort to fix the lid on this portion.

 

Thanks for looking.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PaleoNoel]

Very cool! That's a great idea. 

[FlirtsWithChert]

I love it.

[Coco]

Hi,

 

Good job JPC !

 

Coco

[Ludwigia]

Very good. Now you have a nice conversation piece when you sit down in the back yard with your visitors.

[RuMert]

Looks great so far

[caterpillar]

Great idea

For the next wall, you should do a geological scale with fossils ranked from oldest to newest

[jcbshark]

 Very nice and a good way to display some of the “extras”we all end up with 

[FF7_Yuffie]

That's a really cool idea. It looks great,

[daves64]

Now I know where to go hunt for fossils.. 

[jpc]

1 hour ago, daves64 said:

Now I know where to go hunt for fossils.. 

There is one shark tooth from Shark Tooth Hill.  I think that one will be the first to disappear.