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I worked another split shift today, so I decided to use the 4 hours in between to visit the site in the ditch at the side of the road in the Danube valley once again. No sense in driving home and back again when your tools are anyway in the trunk. Rain had been forecast for the afternoon, but it looked ok for the time being, so off I went. It's about a 3/4 hour drive and everything was looking good until about 15 minutes before arrival when suddenly over the last hill there were dark clouds with even more darkness below them looming on the horizon. Good thing I brought my raincoat and rubber boots. To make things even more complicated, it turned out that the road to the site was blocked off only about a half a kilometer away from it, so I had to turn around , detour back up the hill and down another road to get there, which cost me about another 20 minutes. That wasn't so bad though, since it was pouring with rain at that point, so I was wondering how long I was going to hold out anyway. As it turned out to my luck, the rain pretty well let up just as I arrived, so I thanked my lucky stars and walked down the road to the new spot I'd discovered about a month ago. I remembered to take my camera this time (:)) so here it is.

 

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I'd been here already twice, so you can probably see that I've been working at getting that layer of limestone blocks removed. That's where the fossils are sitting, or rather, lying. So I continued on for about a half an hour in the drizzle, but then the rain started getting stronger again, then it started getting serious and after another 10 minutes it was pouring down in buckets and getting rather uncomfortable. No chance to take out the camera again. At least I had managed to extricate a few ammonites, so I wrapped them up quickly and headed back to the car and thence back to a couple more hours work of another kind.

These things prep up pretty quickly, so I got them done already this evening. Actually there wasn't all that much worth keeping in the end, but at least these 2 turned out ok.

 

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Taramelliceras sp. 6.5cm.

 

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Ataxioceras sp. 7cm.

 

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Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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The first one is particularly cute.

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7 hours ago, Monica said:

Nice work, Roger! :dinothumb:

Thanks, Monica.

 

7 hours ago, Darktooth said:

Nice finds Roger! Love the first one!

 

4 hours ago, fifbrindacier said:

The first one is particularly cute.

Yes, that's the one that was good enough to earn a place on the shelf :)

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Nice finds Roger. Your persistence in working a site is inspirational.

-Dave

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Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPhee

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8 hours ago, Shamalama said:

Nice finds Roger. Your persistence in working a site is inspirational.

Naja. A little bit of water never hurt anybody.

 

6 hours ago, RJB said:

  Good job Roger.  Even in between shifts  your out there doing it.  

 

RB

Better than twiddling your thumbs, right?

 

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I had another split shift today, so what did I do in between? :D This time it didn't rain, so I had a couple of hours to play in the dirt. Now I'm looking forward to getting down to prepping the new finds.

 

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Which outcropping are those from? Some nice looking finds in that basket. :)

-Dave

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Wow !:envy:

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10 hours ago, Shamalama said:

Which outcropping are those from? Some nice looking finds in that basket. :)

Hypselocylum zone

Early Kimmeridgian

Late Jurassic

Lochen Formation, sponge facies

Site: St.Maurus near Beuron in the Upper Danube Valley. The one in the ditch.

 

1 hour ago, fifbrindacier said:

Wow !:envy:

Yes, there are a few nice looking goodies there aren't there? :)

 

I've gotten some of them prepped now. First a multiblock with a large Parataxioceras lothari, a small Eurasenia trimera, 4 Glochiceras sp. (there's one on the back along with some bits of sponge) and a Hibolithes semisulcatum Belemnite.

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 Next a Metahaploceras strombecki

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A Pyrgotrochus speciosus gastropod

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And a couple of things I haven't been able to identify yet. One gastropod and one bivalve.

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More to come when I've got them done :D

 

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Beautiful stuff, Roger!  I especially like the unknown gastropod - the surface looks like it's nicely textured :wub:

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10 minutes ago, Monica said:

Beautiful stuff, Roger!  I especially like the unknown gastropod - the surface looks like it's nicely textured :wub:

Thanks, Monica. I'm quite happy with this lot and there's still more to come. I intentionally didn't abrade that gastropod in order to preserve the fine striations, otherwise I would have blown them away since it's a soft marly limestone steinkern.

 

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14 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

Hypselocylum zone

Early Kimmeridgian

Late Jurassic

Lochen Formation, sponge facies

Site: St.Maurus near Beuron in the Upper Danube Valley. The one in the ditch.

 

Yes, there are a few nice looking goodies there aren't there? :)

 

I've gotten some of them prepped now. First a multiblock with a large Parataxioceras lothari, a small Eurasenia trimera, 4 Glochiceras sp. (there's one on the back along with some bits of sponge) and a Hibolithes semisulcatum Belemnite.

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This one is my preferred. It;s superb !:envy:

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"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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5 hours ago, fifbrindacier said:

This one is my preferred. It;s superb !:envy:

Isn't it nice?

 

Here are the rest of them. I won't bother with names this time. Just ask if you're interested.

 

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A double.

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This one is pretty busy.

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That's all for now, folks :)

 

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:wub::popcorn:

-Dave

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Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPhee

If I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPhee

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20 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

Isn't it nice?

 

Here are the rest of them. I won't bother with names this time. Just ask if you're interested.

A double.

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This one is pretty busy.

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That's all for now, folks :)

 

Those two are interesting, but i'm mostly interested in the top one.

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