icatz
spending too much on rocks
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Post by icatz on Oct 7, 2015 7:02:49 GMT -5
About 90 minutes from here, up in the mountains, is an area called the Mogollon Rim. This area is so rich with fossils. They're in the Pennsylvania layer, 350m - 400m years old. There's even an area called "Paleo Site" right off the 260 where they have a big parking area and you can collect to your heart's content. Found a shark's tooth there. Here are some pics. The ones with individual corals are from other areas nearby and north of Payson. The one with the slab is a piece of the ocean floor from the Paleo site, chock full of fossils. Hard to believe it snows up there (frozen fingers at times) and is over a mile high with a huge forest. This was at the edge of the giant inland sea in the US a jillion years ago before the massive upheavals which became the Rim. Sea bed from Paleo siteFrom East Verde River, north of PaysonFrom wash off the 260Just north of Payson
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icatz
spending too much on rocks
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Post by icatz on Oct 9, 2015 21:45:44 GMT -5
About 90 minutes from here, up in the mountains, is an area called the Mogollon Rim. This area is so rich with fossils. They're in the Pennsylvania layer, 350m - 400m years old. There's even an area called "Paleo Site" right off the 260 where they have a big parking area and you can collect to your heart's content. Found a shark's tooth there. Here are some pics. The ones with individual corals are from other areas nearby and north of Payson. The one with the slab is a piece of the ocean floor from the Paleo site, chock full of fossils. Hard to believe it snows up there (frozen fingers at times) and is over a mile high with a huge forest. This was at the edge of the giant inland sea in the US a jillion years ago before the massive upheavals which became the Rim. Sea bed from Paleo siteFrom East Verde River, north of PaysonFrom wash off the 260Just north of PaysonI just realized that this time period was right after one of the great mass extinctions. The 3rd?
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