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A Short Trip For Jurassic Limestone

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When our Plan A was killed we had to go to Plan B. Plan A was to visit a couple of old mines and sample the mine dumps for pyrite crystals and to try my hand at gold panning some of the tailings a little. This couldn't happen as there was some sort of bike race going up and down the canyon the mines were at the top of. Not wanting to waste the drive over there, we decided to visit the nearby limestone outcrops and viola! Pentacrinus crinoids!

 

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Each dot is 50,000,000 years:

Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic...........

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4 minutes ago, ynot said:

Nice find!

Glad to hear You got out to look.

Thanks! It was nice to get out and enjoy the nice weather we had for that day. 

Each dot is 50,000,000 years:

Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic...........

                                                                                                                    Paleo......Meso....Ceno..

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Doesn't time just fly by?

 

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Some pics of the landscape

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Each dot is 50,000,000 years:

Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic...........

                                                                                                                    Paleo......Meso....Ceno..

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1 hour ago, Monica said:

That is a beautiful place to hunt in - I'm :envy:!

It was a beautiful day as well. The clouds kept the heat down so it was a mild 70°. We got lucky and didn't get rained on but we could see the lightning off in the distance. It was quite the scenery! 

Each dot is 50,000,000 years:

Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic...........

                                                                                                                    Paleo......Meso....Ceno..

                                                                                                           Ꞓ.OSD.C.P.Tr.J.K..Pg.NgQ< You are here

Doesn't time just fly by?

 

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