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Another Day in the Kimmeridgian


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The temps are hovering just above 0°C. right now and there were snow showers predicted yesterday. Nevertheles, my wife noticed that I was beginning to show symptoms of cabin fever, so she just mentioned casually that I could take off if I felt like it. So I did. The Wutach is no place to hang out if snow is on the way, so I thought I'd take a chance with the Danube Valley again. There was a bit of snow in between, but just light sleet showers which were really no bother and none of it stayed on the ground, so digging was no problem. I didn't fancy the idea of bailing out the hole in the divisum zone again, so I walked down the ditch to my excavation in the hypselocylum zone and spent about 6 hours breaking rock. At the end of the day I was quite pleased with the spoils. I'm pretty sure that there should be some nice ones this time. I spent most of the day today cleaning up most of them with the stylus and tomorrow I'll be getting down to abrading them. Here's a photo of the ones I've done so far, which is already the majority of them. Still just a few smaller ones to remove from the matrix.

 

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Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

http://www.steinkern.de/

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Well, I've had quite a productive day. Got them all done. I haven't gotten around to iding them yet, so here are a few pics without words.

 

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Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

http://www.steinkern.de/

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Wow, nice specimens, Roger, and well-prepped.  The collecting season is off to a great start.

 

Jess

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