This month, BPS visited the "education center" of a local Jefferson County quarry, where school children are taught about quarry operations in a nice building with a great view of the quarry, and a small working model of the co
Claire Smith is the current
Librarian,
and is rebuilding our BPS library. Any member with books
from
the BPS library, or who can donate books, posters, topo maps, etc., to
the library (on fossil or geology related topics), please bring them to
future meetings.
The BPS trip this month was to Pickens County, AL, where the group collected from the Selma Chalk formation at several new locations. A new member found her first ever shark tooth in the washes where we were collecting.
The January field trip was held on February 2, 2003. BPS members collected in the Selma Chalk formation in Lowndes county Mississippi.. We visited several new sites where the group has never collected.
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This months trip was to a graptolite site in Bibb County, Alabama. This is the Athens Shale formation (Ordovician age).
BPS members visited the quarry at the Ruffner Mountain Nature Center. It includes a limestone quarry containing Mississippian and Ordovician-era fossils. A number of good "teaching opportunities" were identified.
We visited two late Cretaceous sites in Montgomery County, Alabama, where we collected primarily shark teeth and echinoids.
This month, BPS members collected at a Walker County strip mine.
This month, BPS members were given a private tour of Cathedral Caverns, located in North Alabama near Gant.
