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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
Set up at Ashland Nature Center to show how fossils are extracted from loosely packed sand matrix. I decided this block probably wasn't going to have anything rare an d exciting in it, so I invited some helpers when things were quiet.© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
Set up at Ashland Nature Center to show how fossils are extracted from loosely packed sand matrix.© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
We used Crayola Model Magic to make plant imprints. The medium really holds details well, dries quickly and doesn't make a huge mess (-:© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
This game really had people thinking! Can you tell which are which?© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
About 60% of fossil shells fluoresce. This was a quick set-up using a cardboard box and an ultraviolet LDE flashlight. Flashlights like this are long wave, so they don't work with nearly as many species as shortwave, but for some species it doesn't really matter which wavelength one uses. The $15 flash light was much more expendable than my shortwave light!© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
The pool is loaded with sand and local fossils that visitors could take home - oysters, shark teeth, and belemnites! Oh, my!© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
National Fossil Day 2018 at Ashland Nature Center in Delaware© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
National Fossil Day 2018 at Ashland Nature Center in Delaware© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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I took the first trip to Calvert cliffs since I was a very small child yesterday (I know I live in Maryland so I should be there more often) and although it was productive I am frustrated. A) not a single shark tooth to speak of, I think I was doing something wrong and B ) YOU CANT ACTUALLY HUNT AT THE CLIFFS!?! I knew you were not allowed to dig in the cliffs, but I thought you could at least hunt under them! The person at the front didn't mention that, just said don't dig in the cliffs, and the only warning was a small sign behind a bank that could barely be seen and four small wooden posts with orange plastic grid that was on the ground. I unknowinglyy walked a few feet in to collect fossils and was promptly yelled at and told to drop the fossils. It was one person who then left and after she left, tons of people walked over to the cliffs, one picked up the fossils I dropped! I could see (some I took pictures of) beautiful complete shells on fallen pieces of stone, beckoning to me. Now they will soon be destroyed by the waves. What is the point of Calvert cliffs without the cliffs? It makes me angry so many fossils are allowed to be destroyed, I understand why but do not agree. I'm now thinking of ways to bypass this and does riparian rights got me covered? Can I walk at mean tide levels under the cliffs legally? I just learned the fee at matoaka cabins is the same so I know where I'm going next time.... Anyway ranting aside, these are my finds, there are a ton mostly chesapecten, so I will be uploading them throughout the day. I have a paper on how to ID them but it's all confusing to me, so feel free to comment thoughts at any time. first up the sad remains of Ecphora, who instead of being collected in time, were destroyed by the waves. I don't know if it's possible to tell the species, they look most similar to gardenerae to me.
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Any UK members interested in a group trip details here Moderators, I know this is a duplicate post but I think it would gain more exposure here. Please delete if you feel necessary.
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Map Of Some Of The Best Sites In America To Find Fossils...
Foster posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Wanted to share a map of potential spots to hunt for fossils in the US. Not complete by any means but it's a start! Just planning our fossil hunting road trip this summer and though others might be doing the same Happy hunting!
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hi guys i'm planning to go again in wenlock edge next thursday for some hours of hunting, not like the last time that i went for just 2h. Anyone can suggest the most productive path to follow? any advice wil be appreciated. thanks
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This by far has been the most ambitious trip that I've done, but it was certainly worth the long drive times, poor truck stops (to sleep at), and lack of time to sleep and even eat. In just 10 days I traveled through 7 states (WY, ID, MT, CO, UT, AZ, NM) and covered at least 4700 miles (I might actually have broken 5000). Not only did I alot some time for general fossiling/rockhounding, but also time to stop at a few of the more "touristy" types of places (national parks/monuments, etc). The first day I visited a couple sites in southeastern Montana, with the first being known to produce oysters. It took longer than expected to find, but afterwards I discovered the site to be completely loaded with oysters and oyster fragments. The majority were completely covered with just a tiny bit showing, but after finding a few it seemed like all of them kept popping up one after another. Most were under 1cm in total length, but I found a couple that were larger. The next site was a little disappointing in that due to poor road conditions, I couldn't make it out to a few of the stops that were rumored to yield crinoid pieces (given that I've been working on crinoids for the past year at university, this was going to be one of the highlights of my trip for rockhounding). But I did manage to find one of the stops, which while it appears mostly picked over, did produce one nice piece of coral and several pieces with fragmented clams. This was actually a place that encompassed much more land than I anticipated, so I hope to return next year and alot several days there.
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Hello, yesterday I went for a little fossils hunting in wenlock edge , unfortunally just for 2 hours , anyway I came back home with some finds , nothing incredible but its always something . Here my finds
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If anyone is interested I will be taking / meeting some people from the Fossil Forum to go to Penn Dixie (Hamburg NY) on Friday June 2 and Brechen (about 1/12 hours north east of Toronto) on Saturday June 2. Please PM me if you are interested in joining us. Expect to work hard but come away with some nice goodies. Both localities are good for trilobites, Brechin also adds crinoids and cystoids to the mix as well as brachs and all those other things that I don't collect.
