DChalo Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 I want one that you can actually find bones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 most people won't tell you their good spots unless they know you well and feel like you will safeguard the information and also help them with new spots. the north sulphur river is a good public place not too far from dallas that has definite cool, old fossil bones. if you hunt river terraces around dallas, you might find bones, but you'll have to learn to tell modern bones from pleistocene bones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DChalo Posted May 11, 2009 Author Share Posted May 11, 2009 Whats a river terrace? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 Along the banks of the river or creek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DChalo Posted May 11, 2009 Author Share Posted May 11, 2009 Along the banks of the river or creek. Hmm, post oak creek. A very deep creek that i found some minerals in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 over long periods of time, flooding events and changes of river courses change the areas around rivers. many times, when you're driving down a road and get near a river or creek, you will notice that before you get to it, you go down one or more little dips in elevation to flat areas lower than before. if you don't think about it, it can escape your awareness that the river affects more than just its banks over the millennia. one of the things found around rivers are their terraces. get the picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DChalo Posted May 12, 2009 Author Share Posted May 12, 2009 are fossils found in almost all terraces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 No, not always, learn the formations and that will give you an idea as to what you can find. A lot of it is trial and error, not all will have fossils, it depends on the locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceH Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 For bones around Dallas you can try "Quaternary" deposits along the major rivers which are of Pleistocene age. Also you can find fish and shark verts and miscellaneous bones in the Eagle Ford shale deposits which are of Cretaceous age. I would heavily recommend getting the geologic map for Dallas area from a Mapsco store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadyW Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Hmm, post oak creek. A very deep creek that i found some minerals in Odd that you found minerals there... Post Oak Creek is full of shark teeth! FULL of shark teeth! Like, everywhere you look full of shark teeth! Every complex scientific problem has an elegant and simple solution... and it is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DChalo Posted May 12, 2009 Author Share Posted May 12, 2009 For bones around Dallas you can try "Quaternary" deposits along the major rivers which are of Pleistocene age. Also you can find fish and shark verts and miscellaneous bones in the Eagle Ford shale deposits which are of Cretaceous age. I would heavily recommend getting the geologic map for Dallas area from a Mapsco store. Name a quaternary deposit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 vinnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DChalo Posted May 12, 2009 Author Share Posted May 12, 2009 vinnie Is it open to public and is it in dallas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 um, no idea. you just said to name a quaternary deposit, so i decided to name it "vinnie". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DChalo Posted May 12, 2009 Author Share Posted May 12, 2009 um, no idea. you just said to name a quaternary deposit, so i decided to name it "vinnie". I meant where are quaternary deposits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceH Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Quaternary deposits are basically the gravels and muds deposited along the major rivers and creeks during Pleistocene days (1.8 million to 10,000 years ago). You pretty much have to look in these areas to find bones of animals of that age such as mammoth, mastodon, camel, smilodon, sloths, bear, glyptodon, etc. Now that you've been teased... I have NO idea if there are any accessible areas in Dallas county OR any areas you'd feel safe to look in by yourself. Your best bet for fossils would be the Eagle Ford shale deposits in western Dallas County. The transition where Eagle Ford is overlain by the Austin Chalk is a good zone for shark teeth. A mile or two west of this contact the shales contain a thin flagstoney layer called "Kamp Ranch" which often contains the much prized Ptychodus shark teeth and other goodies. The Dallas sheet of the Geologic Atlas of Texas (check Mapsco store) will show the areas. Also do search on this forum for "Dallas" and read what's already been said. Name a quaternary deposit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceH Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 I've linked to a geo map PDF for Dallas county I've been working on that's about 2/3rds done. The green Kau = Austin chalk, blue Kef = Eagle Ford shale, orange Qt = Quaternary terraces, yellow = Quaternary alluvium. The lighter green areas inside the yellow areas just mark the river greenbelt areas, ignore those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceH Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Good Fossil Hunting Places Near Dallas? I don't know what "near Dallas" means. Do you mean in the city proper? In the county? In the DFW metroplex? North Texas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traviscounty Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 um, no idea. you just said to name a quaternary deposit, so i decided to name it "vinnie". Is that near the "Gino" deposit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Odd that you found minerals there... Post Oak Creek is full of shark teeth! FULL of shark teeth! Like, everywhere you look full of shark teeth! You can also find bones in there sometimes. Are you a fossil newbie or do you have some experience? Like Lance says, study the maps, read/search the posts in the Hunting Trips section, do some research on the formations. You will be much better prepared to find something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I think the biggest problem you are having, is that you need to train your eye. Look at some books, learn what can be found at the different locations, then you will start finding things. You have already been to 2 very productive sites and didn't really find anything. The fossils are there but you have to go slow and low and know what to look for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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