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Hey guys was just wanting a consensus on alternative names for colourless Chalcedony specimens? I've been doing a lot of collecting at a local beach where this variant of chalcedony is rather common but I'm really stumped as to naming these under-rated specimens. I love collecting them as they often look like glass or ice, with or without banding and/or inclusions, but I feel like I'm doing them no favours by just referring to it as "colourless". Cheers, Jasper. Ps: Some geologic background - The chalcedony and agate specimens at this beach have been worn away out of Cretaceous-Paleogene intermediate and felsic volcanic rocks by rivers and carried down to the ocean where they are further tumbled and deposited by long shore drift.
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Hello, Why is it that we write the name of the author who described a species, after the species name? Here are three examples from the same paper I am currently reading: . Kosmoceras (Zugokosmoceras) ex grp grossouvrei Douville . Kosmoceras (Lobokosmoceras) ex grp phaeinum (S. Buckman) . Meleagrinella braamburiensis (Phillips) Format seems to vary between species also (in and out of brackets) Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated!
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Formation Names: Which do you like the most?
MeargleSchmeargl posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
As you all are (hopefully) aware at this point, there are countless scores of fossiliferous formations all across the world, each with its own name. What formation's name do you like the most? I'd have to go with my home town Conasauga Formation. It has a really nice ring to it (and of course, there's some home-town bias in there ).- 26 replies
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