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Collection from recent trip. Sept 29, 2017 1:33:33 GMT -5 garock, captbob, and 10 more like this

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Have some friends that asked me to take them out to a fossil bed I know of where there are a lot of large sponge fossils and other ocean fossils. Found a lot of sponge fossils but nothing intact enough to try and get out in one piece. Found these:

20170926_144020 by James Sloane, on Flickr

20170926_144007 by James Sloane, on Flickr

And these breccia pieces:

20170926_143117 by James Sloane, on Flickr

And lots of purple jasper/agate

20170926_142715 by James Sloane, on Flickr

vegasjames no longer being taken for granite Member since June 2013 Posts: 9,559	Collection from recent trip. Sept 29, 2017 2:18:03 GMT -5 broseph82 and MrMike like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by vegasjames on Sept 29, 2017 2:18:03 GMT -5 Also came across this, which looks like its possibly a partial fish fossil. 20170924_143425 by James Sloane, on Flickr

vegasjames no longer being taken for granite Member since June 2013 Posts: 9,559	Collection from recent trip. Sept 29, 2017 2:19:15 GMT -5 captbob, Henry, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by vegasjames on Sept 29, 2017 2:19:15 GMT -5 Here is Jax by some large pieces of the purple jasper/agate. 20170924_132551 by James Sloane, on Flickr

Rockoonz misunderstood rock expert Member since August 2009 Posts: 11,457	Collection from recent trip. Sept 29, 2017 3:30:04 GMT -5 vegasjames likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rockoonz on Sept 29, 2017 3:30:04 GMT -5 Nice haul, the crinoid fossils are interesting.
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Collection from recent trip. Sept 29, 2017 3:44:29 GMT -5

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Crinoids are very common around here. The largest I ever found was as round as a softball, but I heard that there is a placed close to here where they are as large as dinner plates. Never went up there to look though.

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Collection from recent trip. Sept 29, 2017 10:45:05 GMT -5 fantastic5 and vegasjames like this

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We have fossil death plates similar to that here in my town in Michigan. Is that limestone? That's what we have here. Our crinoids are about the diameter of a pencil. I had no idea that they could be so large. I've been meaning to try polishing a death plate sometime. I imagine that it won't look very good when the three dimensionality is ground flat, but I'm going to give it a shot.

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Collection from recent trip. Sept 29, 2017 10:52:49 GMT -5 vegasjames likes this

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Sept 29, 2017 10:45:05 GMT -5 Jugglerguy said:

We have fossil death plates similar to that here in my town in Michigan. Is that limestone? That's what we have here. Our crinoids are about the diameter of a pencil. I had no idea that they could be so large. I've been meaning to try polishing a death plate sometime. I imagine that it won't look very good when the three dimensionality is ground flat, but I'm going to give it a shot.

I'll be looking forward to seeing that project. Nothing but limestone around Central KY. I've used those death plates to edge some of our flower beds.

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fishnpinball Cave Dweller So much to learn, so little time Member since March 2017 Posts: 1,491	Collection from recent trip. Sept 29, 2017 15:58:04 GMT -5 vegasjames likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by fishnpinball on Sept 29, 2017 15:58:04 GMT -5 Nice hunt

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Collection from recent trip. Sept 29, 2017 16:27:33 GMT -5 Fossilman, Jugglerguy, and 1 more like this

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Sept 29, 2017 10:45:05 GMT -5 Jugglerguy said:

We have fossil death plates similar to that here in my town in Michigan. Is that limestone? That's what we have here. Our crinoids are about the diameter of a pencil. I had no idea that they could be so large. I've been meaning to try polishing a death plate sometime. I imagine that it won't look very good when the three dimensionality is ground flat, but I'm going to give it a shot.

Yes the top where the fossils are is limestone. Limestone, calcite and dolomite are all very common here. There is a secondary rock under the limestone though that is a high silica making it hard to extract fossils in the area. I have found thicker death plates in other areas that were solid limestone all the way through and fossils all the way through.

Sometimes I treat the death plates with dilute hydrochloric acid to eat away some of the limestone, which brings the fossils out in more relief.

Henry spending too much on rocks Member since January 2013 Posts: 452	Collection from recent trip. Oct 11, 2017 11:32:04 GMT -5 vegasjames likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Henry on Oct 11, 2017 11:32:04 GMT -5 Beautiful! Is Jax trying to keep the pieces for him/herself?