General

This collecting site continues to be popular with the BPS, today’s field trip being the third organized visit in only four months. There were good reasons for returning to the site at this time.

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Every year, the BPS visits a lake in Franklin County, Alabama when the lake level is down from normal, exposing rocks from the Bangor Limestone dating back to the late Mississipian Period of geological history (about 320 millio

On this first field trip of the first year of the new millennium (or
the last year of the old millennium), the BPS had the pleasure of
visiting a truly interesting surface mine in Walker County. The Union
Chapel Mine is smaller than the Cedrum Mine we visited last month, but
is located in the same general area. The field trip was attended by 11 "diehards" who

Thanks to the efforts of Bill Newman, and the courtesy of the Drummond
Company, a group of 15 members of the Birmingham Paleontology Society
were able to visit the Shoal Creek Mine, a working underground coal

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama