Frosty walk along the stream for carbon fossil

[Pauli W.]

Hello everyone!

I want to tell you about a trip to a stream in a snow-covered park. I took my three-year-old daughter (who has already helped me search for fossils) on a trip.

Konkovsky or Stone stream is located on the territory of the Bitsevsky Forest Park (the southern outskirts of Moscow), I had information (https://www.ammonit.ru/foto/61829.htm ) that carboniferous rocks accessible as a result of glaciations (quaternary moraine deposits) can be found there.

The temperature on the day of the trip was -2...- 5^oC (28...25^oF) with a very unpleasant cold wind at a speed of 6 m/s.

The entire bottom of the stream is really covered with moraine stone.

As a result, I was able to briefly examine about 20% of the stream.
Brachiopods replaced with flint were found. The imprint of a large single coral rugosa.

As a result, there are prospects for further finds, I plan to explore the stream in a more favorable environment to the place of its confluence with the Chertanovka River. And in early spring, start searching on the Chertanovka River itself.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

[FranzBernhard]

You and your daugther are both veeeery though and die-hards . Same amount of snow as here in Graz (340 m asl), but its already melting here! How long did you stay outside?

Btw, thanks for sharing!
Franz Bernhard

[Pauli W.]

At the mouth of the stream, where the high banks protected from the wind, it was not so cold. We probably walked along the stream for about 30 minutes, then climbed up the bank and went to warm up in the car.

In Russia, paleontology lovers close the season late and open it early.

[RuMert]

We don't close the season, just switch to the winter one At least in Moscow

[jpc]

Fun winter fossiling.  

[Pauli W.]

RuMert is right, many people in Russia do not close the fossil hunting season at all. This is the specifics here