kyoti
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Post by kyoti on Jul 7, 2020 19:24:20 GMT -5
Saturday I decided to take the drive north up to Ladonia Texas to check out a local hounding hotspot, the North Sulfur River. Was about 1.5 hour drive each way into rural east Texas. Dallas was sunny and 99 degress that day. Luckily, Ladonia was under cloud cover, a light drizzle and a chilly (hah!) 82 degrees. I had more fun than a kid on Christmas morning. I found flint knives, petrified wood, fossils, cherts, yellowish calcite and other goodies. I even found a small septarian by accident. Woot! I had so many rocks I was giving away stuff to people as they wandered by. They kept coming back saying how did you see this. Lugging my pack and my little lucky boulder back up the super sized "stairs" to the parking area was rough but worth it. One of my favorite pieces appears to b e a crystalised piece of petrified wood. I'm trying to decide how to handle it. A view of the river bed. The walls arw about 30-40 ft high.
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saxplayer
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Post by saxplayer on Jul 7, 2020 20:21:41 GMT -5
Some very nice finds!
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kyoti
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Post by kyoti on Jul 9, 2020 7:39:36 GMT -5
Thanks Saxplayer. I had a blast. I can't wait to tumble the petrified wood and see how it looks polished. Need more tumblers lol
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Post by RickB on Jul 9, 2020 15:06:09 GMT -5
Nice finds kyoti - Please post a photo of the flint knives.
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Post by miket on Jul 9, 2020 15:49:24 GMT -5
Very nice. Hounding is by far my favorite part of this hobby. And I'm with RickB, I'd love to see the flint knives...
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kyoti
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Post by kyoti on Jul 10, 2020 7:14:56 GMT -5
I wish I could post a picture of the knives but unfortunately I gave them away to a husband and wife team that was collecting artifacts. He seemed very happy with one of the knives and kept telling me I should keep it. It must have been something unusual. I mostly collect rocks for specimens or for tumbling. I often give away artifacts and fossils. Here's an arrowhead and scraper (?) I found At a creek nearby though. It's odd because the little scraper matches almost perfectly to an item I found in Wyoming decades ago. The Sulphur river is known for Native American and Stone Age artifacts as well as sharks teeth. If you'd like me to look for some for you guys the next time I'm there, just let me know.
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Post by fernwood on Jul 12, 2020 5:07:41 GMT -5
Nice finds. Thanks for posting the scraper and point.
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Post by rmf on Jul 12, 2020 9:19:52 GMT -5
kyoti Did you know image #2 is a piece of Baculites? The dendritic suture lines are diagnostic. Plus the red and black one in the next image. Nice finds.
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kyoti
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Post by kyoti on Jul 13, 2020 6:48:51 GMT -5
Thank guys It's funny you mentioned the squid fossils,Rmf. I had seen a video on youtube were the kids found some fossils like it. They called them orthoceras? I thought they were cool looking. Are they the same animal? I actually thought the second one was a plant fossil at first. I have a larger one were the shell pattern isn't as obvious. If I slice it, will the chambers show up?
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kyoti
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Post by kyoti on Oct 4, 2020 9:35:33 GMT -5
The weather was just gorgeous here yesterday, so I decided to mosey up to Ladonia and hound the North Sulfur river again. The river bed was fairly dry in many places but the hurricane had coated everything with a thick clay coating. It made it more difficult to spot things. I got skunked on any artifacts. I was pretty lucky with the petrified wood and quartz though. I really like the sugar agates from this area. Yellow quartz or maybe some calcite. I'll check them with the UV flashlight to sort them. Sugar agates and maybe a sneaky petrified wood. The petrified wood haul. Yay! A couple of the big pieces I collected actually appear to be fossil bone. They're not pictured. Some unkowns. I love surprise rocks! Although I wasn't really searching for fossils this trip, I did grab these. Several ammonite sections, ( one with a small piece if nacre) a baculite, some oysters and a piece of bone. Because I'm a dork and forgot to take trip pictures, I'll share this little plant I saw that I thought was pretty.
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Post by jasoninsd on Oct 4, 2020 20:58:07 GMT -5
Thank guys It's funny you mentioned the squid fossils,Rmf. I had seen a video on youtube were the kids found some fossils like it. They called them orthoceras? I thought they were cool looking. Are they the same animal? I actually thought the second one was a plant fossil at first. I have a larger one were the shell pattern isn't as obvious. If I slice it, will the chambers show up? When my wife and I first started looking through our river rock pile, we kept finding these rocks with what we too thought were "plant" imprints in the rocks. There were quite a few in the mix. We too later discovered they were Baculite pieces. I too am a self-defined "dork"...so don't feel all alone! LOL
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kyoti
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Post by kyoti on Oct 5, 2020 7:51:33 GMT -5
I know what you mean. I kept showing off my "leaf" fossils to everyone until I found out it was ammonite shell. I hope I can find a whole shell one day. hmm I think I should start a rough rock pile too. I have a couple of little drifts around the pots on my patio. They are all my little intrresting rocks that are fun to look at. I also forgot to post the cool sandstone boulder I found in the river. It looks handsome in my yard. It reminded me of Southern Utah.
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