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Dug Gap Battle Road, Dalton GA : Road cut


Nimravis

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Yesterday I stopped at a road cut that I had seen on the internet. The road cut is located on Dug Gap Mountain Road in Dalton,  Georgia. 

 

To be honest, I do not know anything about this the age of this formation or the shell imprints that are in the matrix, which I believe to be a mudstone.

 

The only thing I found were imprints of small shells and a live Georgia scorpion. 

 

If anyone has information on this site, I would appreciate it.

 

Here are some pics of the area , the scorpion and my finds.

 

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I can't help with identification, but I wanted to say that those shell imprints are really pretty!  I especially like the one below:

 

Thanks for sharing!

 

Monica

 

13 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

 

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Lower Silurian Red Mountain Formation.

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2 hours ago, MikeR said:

Lower Silurian Red Mountain Formation.

Thanks for the ID Mike. 

@Monica ,  ditto I also thought that they were very pretty.

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Nice set of brachipods, Ralph!  :) 

Thanks for the report. 

 

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13 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

Nice set of brachipods, Ralph!  :) 

Thanks for the report. 

 

Thanks 

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4 hours ago, ynot said:

Love the preservation on that scorpion fossil!

The rest of those fossils are nice too.

Lol

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10 hours ago, jpc said:

Nice scorpion.  It looks a little browner than our Wyomig beasties.  

 

And nice fossils, too. 

Thanks and the that scorpion is a Georgia Devil Scorpion..

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So THAT's the formation I saw in that video! All right.

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The two species of scorpion common to Georgia are the Southern Devil Scorpion, also called the Southern Stripeless Scorpion and the Plain Eastern Stripeless Scorpion. I hope this is helpful.

 

 

Mark.

 

Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

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5 hours ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

The two species of scorpion common to Georgia are the Southern Devil Scorpion, also called the Southern Stripeless Scorpion and the Plain Eastern Stripeless Scorpion. I hope this is helpful.

Thanks Mark, at my sisters house, about 1 hour from this spot, are a lot of them.

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Cool and well preserved brachiopods.

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weird how there are scorpions in the mountains and coastal plain of Georgia but none on the coastal plain of NC. They even have them in western NC and Tenessee mountains but none down here.

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2 hours ago, Plax said:

weird how there are scorpions in the mountains and coastal plain of Georgia but none on the coastal plain of NC. They even have them in western NC and Tenessee mountains but none down here.

I agree, my sister lives in the North Georgia mountains and they are everywhere.

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@Plax I use one if I am down there with my 5 year old grandson, he loves scorpion’s and we catch any we find in the lower level of the house and relocate them outside- he has a blast doing it.

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