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The next site required a short boat trip. The shoreline in this area is composed of deteriorated Conasauga shale.
Visitor
Bob Stewart
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People were scattered all up and down the shoreline.
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As the sun gets low in the sky, we're still going around to the marked items, surface collecting or excavating as needed, trying to finish before dark.
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Bob is assisting James with wrapping of specimens so they will make it back to the museum safely.
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Several members eagerly looking at the fish jaw and bones found by Jan.
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James Lamb demonstrating the "taste test", does it taste more like chicken, or fish?
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At lunchtime, James Lamb made the rounds of flags where members had marked fossil finds, with many of us tagging along to learn the proper scientific names (or at least hear them said out loud!), and see if what we found was actually fossil material!
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Climbing down the steep gully wall to the middle of the gully where fossils are found, and of course, we're already looking for fossils!
