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Southwest Va Fossils - 6/4/2010 6:57:04 PM   
whiskeyman


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Status: offline 		ever since I began roaming the mountains and hollows of Washington County Va looking for "abandoned" cemeteries ,I seem to fall over a fossil or more everytime I turn around. It's too bad I'm not falling over bottles, but heck - I take what I can get.
I've located 2 fossil beds in the valley of the North Fork of the Hoston River. These are mostly brachiopods and a few crinoids. But in a gorge near Mendota Va is where I located my "best" finds as they are entirely different from those I've found elsewhere...1st I'll show some brachiopods.




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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/4/2010 6:58:02 PM   
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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/4/2010 6:59:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		the other "stuff"...consists of crinoids , sea fans and maybe small bones ? and a white deposit amid some crinoids that looks like a fish...all these are quite small...






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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/4/2010 7:01:01 PM   
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at the bottom, just right of center looks like a spinal column?

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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/4/2010 7:04:20 PM   
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lots of sea fan pieces. But the odd circular gray object with radiating lines around it is my unknown...maybe a snail of some type?

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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/4/2010 7:06:58 PM   
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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/4/2010 7:08:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		last pic. After I saw Dollarbill's fossil post and noted we had some folks on the Forum who know fossils, I decided to post mine for input. Thanks for looking all.




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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/4/2010 8:12:18 PM   
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ORIGINAL: whiskeyman

the other "stuff"...consists of crinoids , sea fans and maybe small bones ? and a white deposit amid some crinoids that looks like a fish...all these are quite small...







Saw a lot of these in the Limestone of Tazewell County, over the years. We had a wooded area behind out trailer and I would spend hours exploring them and the rocks.


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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/4/2010 8:16:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hello Charlie,

Kudos on the fossil finds. I've never found one. Guess my eyes just aren't attuned. This "fishy" one is lookin more Crawdaddy to me.



This one, I'm pretty sure is Wheat Chex.


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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/4/2010 11:34:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		The fossils are very interesting to me since im from Va. to.I have never found one myself but i will now keep an eye out.

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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/5/2010 5:32:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		Your fossils look a lot like the Ordovician limestone from southwest Ohio, 500 million years old. I've got a chunk of that somewhere around here with a starfish amongst brachiopods. The round disk things are crinoid stems. I'm not sure if the fan things are part of the crinoids or some sort of coral. There are fossil fish to be found in the Devonian age shales along the river banks around Cleveland, though I have yet to find one.

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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/5/2010 9:39:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		hey charlie nice finds! havent found much around the the knoxville area,  but have have found some like in the first pix , north of here near tazwell

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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/5/2010 1:01:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPhK1KCiPek  I have a few fossil videos on there.  I'm uploading one right now with some kind of footprint in it.  Please feel free to comment, I don't know much about them.

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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/5/2010 6:49:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Those are great fossils...I find those washed up on the beach of Lake Michigan all the time....Hope you don't mind my posting a pic on your post but here's a crinoid stem(thats the long cylinder shaped one by the quarter)  and just to the left of that is a individual section of the stem....thats your what your unidentified fossil would look like if it weren't embedded in that rock





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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/6/2010 2:57:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for the comments everyone...

esp Surf's about "wheat chex"...ROFL
and I agree, now that ya mention it - the "fish" does more closely resemble a crawdad...

Nice finds Woodwalker...and you are correct - they are as small as yours, (if they weren't embedded.) But, my large slabs are easier to keep up with...

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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/6/2010 10:13:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		It would be too bad to ruin the outside but I cant help but wonder what is on the inside.

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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/6/2010 10:39:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		Whiskeyman, how were you able to get such great pics of your fossils?  Did you use a light box?  Your camera must have a good macro setting.  I'm having trouble with mine.

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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/6/2010 12:55:07 PM   
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ORIGINAL: whiskeyman

the other "stuff"...consists of crinoids , sea fans and maybe small bones ? and a white deposit amid some crinoids that looks like a fish...all these are quite small...






I found a piece of this at Cape Hatteras years ago.

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RE: Southwest Va Fossils - 6/11/2010 3:18:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		RED...sorry it took me so long to reply. I have a Canon PowerShot A1000 IS camera...and it does have an excellent macro setting with image stabilizer....when the light is good...

and no...no light box...JUst laid it on a tabletop.

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