Cherokee

January 14, 2006 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL

Submitted by Nancy Kenfield Lea on Thu, 01/19/2006 - 11:00pm

Neither rain, nor sleet nor snow nor lake wind advisories will deter the BPS from hitting a favorite NE Alabama site. No kidding about the snow! As we assembled in the morning at the rest area little flakes were seen drifting down. We all bundled up and headed out anyway. In spite of the weather, we had a great

February 5, 2005 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL

Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sun, 02/06/2005 - 11:00pm

Our January trip was delayed a week, due to the ice storm that hit the eastern part of Alabama on our scheduled day. Just a week later, it was a very nice, sunny day, with a slight breeze coming off Weiss Lake. Isn't this Alabama weather wonderful! If you don't like the current weather, just wait a few days!

This year we decided on a boat trip to a new, uncollected area of the lake, where everyone found a plentiful supply of trilobites. The water level was up higher than expected, due to the recent rain, but

January 24, 2004 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL

Submitted by Greg Mestler on Fri, 01/23/2004 - 11:00pm

For the first time in many years it was warm and the sun was shining at Weiss Lake in NE Alabama instead of snowing or sleeting, resulting in a turn-out of 17+ members.

Our first stop was at a new site exposing nodules from the shale of the Conasauga Fm, Dresbachian stage, late Cambrian approx. 515 million years old. Here we found over 20 "Brooksella" which are believed to be the internal mold of a "primitive jellyfish". The most that anyone can remember finding on any trip were 3, so everyone got at least one specimen.

January 12, 2002 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL

Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 01/12/2002 - 11:00pm

We collected in Cherokee County, Alabama, in the pebbles and shaley outcrops around a lake, which was low for the winter, exposing a wide shoreline. An outcrop of the Middle Cambrian Conasauga Shale of the Coosa Valley is at this site, and numerous trilobites were found. A number of members went scouting for new sites in the area.

January 20, 2001 - Cherokee Co, AL

Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 01/20/2001 - 11:00pm

BPS members collected in Cherokee County, Alabama. This site is the Conasauga Formation of the Cambrian, and numerous trilobites were found.

NOTE: We lost server access due to the illness of the administrator of our host server. It was over a year before he was back at work, and no field trip reports were created during that time period. These brief memos are simply place-holders for the trip. Periodically, old photos do turn up and get scanned in.