BPS June 7, 2004 Meeting
BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the Homewood Public Library. Meeting is downstairs, in room 101.
Program: Evolution of Echinoderms from Vendian to Today
Program: Evolution of Echinoderms from Vendian to Today
Date:
Monday, June 7, 2004 - 7:00pm
May 22, 2004 - Cretaceous Fossils, Sumter Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 05/22/2004 - 11:00pmAnother boat trip, this
time in Sumter
county, at a river site with huge chalk bluffs.
(The lake
level at the Demopolis Lock was 74.28 feet above sea level).
The
fossils we collected are from the marl limestone sequences in the
Arcola Limestone
Member (Late Cretaceous Campanian 83-74 mya). Last year, Dr.
BPS May 3, 2004 Meeting
BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the Homewood Public Library. Meeting is downstairs, in room 101.
Program: Bakker & Horner video, with emphasis on Making a Protective Jacket
Program: Bakker & Horner video, with emphasis on Making a Protective Jacket
Date:
Monday, May 3, 2004 - 7:00pm
April 17, 2004 - Cretaceous and Pleistocene Fossils, Greene Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 04/17/2004 - 11:00pm This creek site
in Greene
County,
AL is characterized by large quantities of pea gravel, filled with
numerous shark teeth, and the occasional mosasaur vertebra.
Going
east
along the creek one is in Pleistocene age material, while going west
moves
one through an area of Mooreville Chalk (Cretaceous).
A number of teeth from the Goblin shark and crow shark were found by all. (See the July, 2003 trip report for details on these sharks, and more on the geology of this site.)
(Photos
A number of teeth from the Goblin shark and crow shark were found by all. (See the July, 2003 trip report for details on these sharks, and more on the geology of this site.)
(Photos
BPS April 5, 2004 Meeting
BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the Homewood Public Library. Meeting is downstairs, in room 101.
Date:
Monday, April 5, 2004 - 7:00pm
March 13, 2004 - Mississippian Fossils, Morgan Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Fri, 03/12/2004 - 11:00pmWe began our field trip for this month at a quarry in Jefferson County, to view specimens in the quarry classroom. Then we caravaned to the collecting site in Morgan Co, AL (except Vicki, who was talking so much to Bill and Adelle that she failed to see everyone else passing her on the interstate ...)
We had a wonderful day of collecting, beautiful weather and great turnout. We went to a new spot in the quarry, in addition to the site from last year. Collecting is in the Mississippian Period (340-310 mya), in
BPS March 1, 2004 Meeting
BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the Homewood Public Library. Meeting is downstairs, in room 101.
Program: Hands-on Workshop - Identify & Label Your Collection
Program: Hands-on Workshop - Identify & Label Your Collection
Date:
Monday, March 1, 2004 - 7:00pm
February 22, 2004 - Jefferson Co, AL
Submitted by Greg Mestler on Sat, 02/21/2004 - 11:00pmThis month's
field trip was a work party
to prepare the display stone in the Gate City Quarry for the continuing
Ruffner Mountain Nature Center project. After a delightful
lunch
at the Golden Rule BBQ the BPS had fun hiking in to the quarry via a
back way told to us by the RMNC staff and we even met a potential new
BPS February 2, 2004 Meeting
BPS regular monthly meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month at the Homewood Public Library. Meeting is downstairs, in room 101.
Program: Fossils as Artifacts, Artifacts as Fossils
Program: Fossils as Artifacts, Artifacts as Fossils
Date:
Monday, February 2, 2004 - 7:00pm
January 24, 2004 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL
Submitted by Greg Mestler on Fri, 01/23/2004 - 11:00pmFor 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.
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.
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