Fossil Excavations At The Virginia Solite Quarry, Cascade, Virginia

[Oxytropidoceras]

VMNH team is hurrying to remove quarry

fossils. Martinsville Bulletin, July 29, 2014

http://www.martinsvillebulletin.com/article.cfm?ID=42805

http://martinsvilledaily.com/?p=16745

Quarry site was vast lake during Triassic era

Martinsville Bulletin, July 29, 2014

http://www.martinsvillebulletin.com/article.cfm?ID=42806

Virginia Triassic Basins - Solite Quarry

http://geology.appstate.edu/academics/field-trips/triassic-solite-quarry

Updates from the Paleontology Lab

Virginia Museum of Natural History

http://vmnhpaleontology.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/solite-quarry/

A paper is:

Ackermann, R. V., R. W. Schlische, L. C. Patiño,

and L. A. Johnson, 2003, A Lagerstätte of rift-related

tectonic structures from the Solite Quarry, Dan

River/Danville rift basin, in LeTourneau, P.M.,

and Olsen, P.E., eds., The Great Rift Valleys of

Pangea: New York, Columbia University Press.

PDF file at http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~schlisch/A38_2003_TrJ_Solite.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited July 30, 2014 by Oxytropidoceras

[Fossildude19]

Thanks for this, Paul!

The site is well known, and quite stunning in its variety of fossils, and preservation of them.

Regards,

[Shamalama]

Had an opportunity years ago to go down and collect at this quarry but passed as I didn't have the time or funds available for a road trip. Glad to hear that the museum is going to try and save some of the beds.

[Wrangellian]

Yes and it's refreshing to hear that a business is going out of its way to accommodate fossil collecting.