"to The Center Of The Earth"

[Ruslan-69]

| "To the Center of the Earth"

| (Or impressions freshman first came to the pit)

The story of the first trip a few years ago

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Early in the morning, he came to a quiet, comfortable, with lots of temples, the regional city of Bayou.

Around the city, numerous coastal quarries where mining was carried white limestone, which was called "Staritsky marble."

But the purpose of my other, caves left by then, the beautiful arched bridge across the Volga river and quickly went to the street to cool career.

Had not long to go in half an hour I was at the crusher, and open mouth looking at the work of this remarkable technology.

Past the huge mountain of rubble was in his career.

Despite Saturday, stone crusher work, but in the quarry was quiet and my person fortunately no one was interested.

Production is carried out as in most quarries ledges of 2-3 meters.

Quarry certainly small, has developed and abandoned part, but I'm accustomed to the plains landscape reminded why that mountain.

Soon, I was disappointed, examined the top two tiers heap bird's nest on a hillside, just a few kernels gastropod Bellerophon and some hollow vertical tubes penetrating the rock vertically sometimes two meters.

The truth is out there, here and across Quartz crystal-clear to yellow and white,

Beaten off by heart a few small drusen and at the same time two of your own fingers.

For the lower, right under their feet began to see the wreckage of needle plate urchins, and segments of lilies, all small and debris scattered.

How not crawling, scraping knees, found only two decent large segment, but one cup of the bifurcated

The first thing that opened eyes researcher, brachiopods

their doors were everywhere, sticking out of the rock in all the layers were clusters of rocks in pieces, lay in the way, such huge numbers could not even imagine

(Seen only in the museum - "a piece of board with brachiopods"

Yes sdes these boards ....! (Much) My eyes were like two newly discovered Euomphalus

Grabbing a hammer began to wave them in all directions, stratified limestone easily and if it were in this time that I saw my administration career, would undoubtedly have given the award for energy savings for their crushers

When taken with a bag full, changed his mind and dumped almost all back ...

But then began to come across solitary corals

Raked who just handfuls of loose layers glinoobrazuyuschey

Calmed down a little, began to pay attention to the local inhabitants, all the slopes were covered with one of two types of snails were stuck and the latter moved briskly.

But the local toads and snakes did not want to sit and score a cool stones

o engrossed in excavations that have completely forgotten about the technique of safety, the upper part of the wall collapsed, I was lucky

but the camera does not

learned by example, SECURITY EQUIPMENT MUST BE FOLLOWED

On a slope in the dumps saw WHOLE needle urchins. Washed by rain, they were right under your feet, climbing and getting stuck in the mud up and up the slope, shove them in his pockets.

His head was sitting just one question: "Why should it, picking pebbles wander the banks of the river where there for 10 minutes to collect 10 times more than I found in a whole year?"

Climbing up grabbed the bush grass and it looked

-Flying two meters, tucked his leg, and very successfully landed on the only career bush poisonous plants.

Then finally calmed down, selecting the best specimens, bathed, laundered pounds of clay adhering to the "great and mighty river Volga"

stockpiled dinner pies, scratched, bitten, but extremely happy, limping off to the bus station.

Edited November 9, 2012 by Ruslan-69

[nala]

Wonderfull fossils and pictures! thanks to share

[Auspex]

Thank you for your wonderful tale!

[Herb]

Nice fossils and wonderful pix. Thanks for sharing!

[njfossilhunter]

Very wonderful story....The pictures are great.....it must have been a lot of work posting your trip on the forum.....

Edited November 10, 2012 by njfossilhunter

[Just Bob]

Wow, great finds and great report!

[traveltip1]

Great pictures and an absorbing narrative story worthy of Jules Verne!

Edited November 10, 2012 by traveltip1

[MB]

Thanks for sharing

[Bev]

Ruslan I am so jealous! You found so many GREAT fossils! And in one trip! Thank you so much for sharing your adventure and pictures! Congrats on all the great finds!

Bev

[Ruslan-69]

Thank you all for comments.

This was the first trip of my life.

Now, I travel a lot and collect fossils.

Study them. I read the book. Watching the location of fossils in the layers and gorizontah.Perepisyvayus specialists Paleontological Institute

But the first meeting will be remembered for a lifetime!

[Ludwigia]

But the first meeting will be remembered for a lifetime!

Yes, we can see that this trip made a very special impression on you. What a wonderful story! You certainly did catch the bug on that day and not only some fine fossils!

[grampa dino]

I always look forward to your posts and here is another great one thanks

As of today all I can report is 15 inch's of snow