April 14, 2002 - Walker Co, AL
Once again, BPS members visited a coal mine in Walker County, Alabama, where many varieties of plant fossils were found.
Cooling off in a nearby creek.
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March 23, 2002 - Walker Co, AL
BPS members visited a private museum owned by one of our newest members - wonderful specimens, as he has worked around mines most of his life. Then we went to Taft Coal mine in Walker County, Alabama for collecting.
February 23, 2002 - Franklin Co, AL
BPS members collected in the Bangor Limestone in Franklin County, Alabama, and made several stops at roadcuts in the area. Specimens from this site date to the late Mississipian Period of geological history (about 320 million years).
January 12, 2002 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL
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. The best find of the trip was a complete trilobite impression on a hard nodule.
(Photo courtesy Vicki Lais)
Trilobite found by Vicki.
November 17, 2001 - Walker Co, AL
BPS members collected in coal mines in Walker County, Alabama again this month. Fossils are prolific in the spoil piles of these mines.
October 6, 2001 - Walker Co, AL
This month BPS members collected in several Walker County, Alabama coal strip mines.
September 29, 2001 - Covington Co, AL
BPS members collected in and around a river in Covington County, Alabama this month. Numerous shark teeth, ray teeth, bones and various shell material was found.
August 25, 2001 - Colbert Co, AL
BPS members took a long road trip to roadcuts in Colbert County on August 25, where everyone found a good selection of blastoids, brachiopods, trilobites, and other Mississippian age fossils at two separate collecting sites.
Afterwards, we relaxed and cooled off in a creek on some propery owned by one of our members.
Cooling off in a nearby creek.
Cooling off in a nearby creek.
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July 21, 2001 - Clarke and Washington Co, AL
BPS members went to a Clarke County site where whale fossils have been found in the past, but none were found on this day. We also collected at a privately owned quarry in Washington County, Alabama, where numerous echinoids, sand dollars, and foraminifera were found.
Forams with a sand dollar showing in the matrix.
Numerous sand dollars were found in this quarry.
Summer, 2001 - Jefferson Co, AL
Several times during the summer, members collected in north Jefferson county, in an area being cleared for a shopping center.
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