A beautiful Monday morning, with lots of clouds keeping heat to a bearable level. We went to a new area this trip, where several crinoid heads and pieces, blastoids, archimedes, horned and other corals were found. J
Report to come.
Dr. Richard Carroll, Coal Geologist at the Geological Survey of Alabama for 24 years, will do a presentation on "Fossil Ferns" at this month's meeting. He earned his doctorate in geology, with a focus on paleobotany and palynology.
The business meeting will begin at 7pm, followed by the speaker from 7:30 - 8:30.
Hoover Public Library, Meeting Room A & B, downstairs. Free and open to the public.
Our speaker on May 4 will be Roger Sauterer, Assistant Professor of Biology at Jacksonville State University, who will speak on “A time to die: The Permian world and the great mass extinction." Hoover Public Library, Children’s Programming Room at 7:30pm. Free and open to the public.
Please note - this is a different meeting room from normal. Upstairs, not downstairs. Go in the front door, bear left. Quickly start looking for stars on the floor, then follow them down the hall to the meeting room.
The Mississippi Museum of Natural History in Jackson presents a "Fossil Road Show" each year. The public is invited to bring their "mystery rocks" and have them identified. It also provides a venue for local groups
Our speaker for April is Takehiro Ikejiri, Research Associate, Alabama Museum of Natural History, who will speak on "Late Cretaceous vertebrates from Alabama: Who was really affected by the Chicxulub impact?" Hoover Public Library, Meeting Room A/B. Free and open to the public
Geoscientists have unveiled a computer model that maps the details of Earth's tectonic dance in 1-million-year increments.
1) Computer model - image showing how Earth's tectonic plates move, 1 image per million years.
2) "Earth's tectonic plates skitter about", a summary of the technical document listed below.
Our speaker for March is James Lamb, Curator of Paleontology at the Black Belt Museum at the University of West Alabama, who will speak on " Evolution: How It Works" Hoover Public Library, Meeting Room C. Free and open to the public.
Our speaker for February is George Phillips, Paleontology Curator at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, who will speak on Bryozoans. Hoover Public Library, Meeting Room A/B. Free and open to the public.
Our January meeting will be devoted primarily to our annual election of officers. A brief program by James Lamb will follow.
LOCATION: Hoover Public Library, Meeting Room A and B. Free and open to the public.
