Becky Benfer Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Would this be anything? It has strange lines on it that don’t look natural to me, but you guys would know. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ynot Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Maybe trace fossils on this piece. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 That's what I'm thinking too, grazing(feeding) traces maybe. 1 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becky Benfer Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 What’s that mean? That it is a fossil or no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Ammonite Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Please show us some photos looking at the thin ends of the rock normal to the bedding plane. I think that the lines that you see might be the horizontal bedding layers in a sandstone. My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned. See my Arizona Paleontology Guide link The best single resource for Arizona paleontology anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 ichnofossil or trace fossil Trace fossils consist of impressions made on the substrate by an organism: for example, burrows, borings (bioerosion), urolites(erosion caused by evacuation of liquid wastes), footprints and feeding mark. But I not sure what you have sorry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 6 minutes ago, Becky Benfer said: What’s that mean? That it is a fossil or no? Here you go. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becky Benfer Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 Horizontal pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 I think it is sediment surface turbation. It could be bioturbation, showing the activity of animals, but what I see is more consistent with high-energy water movement. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DPS Ammonite Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 I generally agree with Auspex. The lines are bedding planes that undulate indicating some turbulence during deposition. My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned. See my Arizona Paleontology Guide link The best single resource for Arizona paleontology anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becky Benfer Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 Ugh! please tell me Ohio has some fossils! I'm going to keep bugging you guys until I finally find a good one you know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 3 minutes ago, Becky Benfer said: Ugh! please tell me Ohio has some fossils! I'm going to keep bugging you guys until I finally find a good one you know! You doing the right thing. It is better to bring your finds home and post on TFF for an ID than to leave them out in the field because you not sure what they are. It is also good to get some geographical info on the places your hunting first. So you know the age of the Formation you are searching. All the best Bobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 40 minutes ago, Becky Benfer said: Ugh! please tell me Ohio has some fossils! I'm going to keep bugging you guys until I finally find a good one you know! Ohio has plenty of fossils - but you may have to make a drive to some of the better known sites like Mt Orab, Sylvania Fossil Park in Toledo, Paulding, and plenty of other sites. Your best bet would be to join a rock/fossil club in your area. Many of them go on field trips, and it always helps to collect with folks with a lot of experience. 2 ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 4 hours ago, Kane said: Ohio has plenty of fossils - but you may have to make a drive to some of the better known sites like Mt Orab, Sylvania Fossil Park in Toledo, Paulding, and plenty of other sites. Your best bet would be to join a rock/fossil club in your area. Many of them go on field trips, and it always helps to collect with folks with a lot of experience. Cincinnati Dry Dredgers Fossil Club Link: Dry Dredgers North Coast Fossil Club (Cleveland) Link: NCFC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 The Earth's crust gets broken down by miscellaneous processes.The end products can have a variety of grain sizes.When the end result ,the particles,are small enough they can be transported by wind,water(river,lake,ocean),and living organisms. For the deep marine realm,bedforms(what I would call the geomorphological expression of the process of stratification) can be created by e.g.(the following can be viewed as a visual aid to the hydraulic factors): Once sediment is deposited of course,animals start to colonize it,and can totally change the geochemistry and fabric of(in this case) the sea floor .The amount and kind of animals present,their activity patterns(feeding,locomotion),their physiology can totally annihilate patterns left in the sediment by the depositional processes. Trace fossils are left by the presence or activity of animals/organisms,and if yoúr piece is NOT a trace fossil,it still has a tale to tell,but that's just my opinion. Note:the distinction between laminar and turbulent flow is not as clearcut as some might think.Eddy turbulence is EXTREMELY hard to model and "computationally intensive" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 To the right:some of the equations used in trying to make sense of the relation between bedforms,bed cohesiveness(or lack of it),and hydraulics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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