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So, funny story, here. I've driven by Fossil Falls numerous times, but never explored the area. I did stop once, but only drove to the parking lot and looked around. This time I decided to stop and hike around - all with the intention of seeking out some of the scattered rock art (petroglyphs) hidden around the lava field.
Arriving at the parking lot, I got everything ready for the hike and fired up the GPSr. Nothing... Oh, it worked, but the file containing the coordinates failed to load. They were on the GPSr, but just wouldn't display on the map. And since I decided to leave my laptop at home, there was no way for me to fix the problem.
So, I decided to just wander around a bit, hoping I might stumble upon a glyph or two. I sort of remembered where they were on the map, but I had no luck at all. There must be a million boulders out there, as well as many ravines. So, other that having a somewhat pleasant time wandering around, I came home with just one photo from my stop at Fossil Falls.
I guess that's more of a sad story than a funny one. :-/
This is one that really improves when viewed Large on Black
While it seems like I am in the mountains, this is actually a small ridge down on the flatlands at Fossil Creek Reservoir Open Space. I shot this with a 300 mm f/4 telephoto lens in order to compact the layers.
Fossil gastropod Turritella sp. and bivalve shells, unknown location, shot with a Nikon Z fc with a Nikkor Z MC 50 mm 1:2.8, auto focus.
Fossil Damselfly. This species has not yet been described. These insects lived during Eocene time, about 50 million years ago. They are preserved in the Green River Formation, a laminated limestone precipitated from calcium-rich waters. Fossil Butte National Monument. Near Kemmerer, Lincoln Co., Wyo.
Fossil-Fool Fauvism
Storm-felled trees and queasy skies of climate change paint with a peculiar palette. Stricker Pond, Middleton, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA, July 16, 2023. [fauvism—an early 20th-century movement in painting that often used distorted forms and vivid colors.]
The stretch of land laying between Orpesa and Torreblanca is one of the few left without urbanizing in the País Valencià seacoast. It is known as Prat de Cabanes (Natural Park) and it is one of the most important breeding grounds for the Moustached Warbler. This pictures shows the unique fossil dunes on its southern border.
Plagiostoma striatum, fossil bivalves, Muschelkalk, Triassic, Rüdersdorf, Germany, shot with a Nikon Z fc with a Nikkor Z MC 50 mm 1:2.8.
The Fossil Forest is the remains of an ancient submerged forest from Jurassic times, located to the east of Lulworth Cove on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. It lies on the Jurassic Coast, on a wide ledge in the seaside cliff. The site is within the Lulworth Ranges and thus has restricted access. Parts of forest can also be seen on the Isle of Portland and in quarries near the town of Weymouth to the west.
Near the end of the Jurassic period (c.144 million years ago) the sea levels dropped and a number of islands emerged in the Purbeck area, surrounded by saline lagoons and channels. For a short period, soil formed and a tropical forest grew up. It then flooded under a shallow saline lagoon. The remains are now preserved as the Fossil Forest. This provides the most complete fossilised record of a Jurassic forest in the world.
The c. 140-million-year-old Gymnosperm trees bear similarities with modern-day Cypress (Cupressus), with foliage having the characteristics of a 'Monkey Puzzle' (Araucaria araucana). Because of its closeness to Cupressus, the species found here at the fossilized forest has been named Protocupressinoxylon purbeckensis (i.e. 'Early cypress-wood from the Purbecks'). Dendrochronology indicates that they grew in a Mediterranean climate. Some of tree stumps show the remains of thrombolites.
Purbeckensis is fairly easily distinguished from other species of prehistoric tree, due to the timbers' characteristic "cross-field pitting". Algal stromatolites can be observed upon some of the stumps.
The Fossil Forest at Dorset has been described as "one of the most complete fossilized forest of any age".
Fossil Bee of an unidentified family in the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation. This insect lived during Eocene time, around 50 million years ago. It was was found in the shallow lacustrine deposits of Lake Uintah, the largest of the three lakes of the Green River system. The specimen is about 1.5 cm long. Bonanza, Uintah Co., Utah.
Fossil Midge (Dixidae fam.) in the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation. This insect lived during Eocene time, around 50 million years ago. The specimen is about 8 mm long. It was was found in the shallow lacustrine deposits of Lake Uintah, the largest of the three lakes of the Green River system. Bonanza, Uintah Co., Utah.
This Dragonfly fossil is housed at Museum für Naturkunde, in Berlin, Germany. Despite being Millons of years old, this dragonfly looks very similar to those flying around today, and the level of detail seen in this Fossil is quite remarkable.
This fossil sandbank was formed around 20 million years ago. It withstood the Ice Age when the Rhine valley was formed and where the power of the glaciers could not cut this plate.
Further reading in German
www.vol.at/lauterach/die-sandplatten-als-versteinerte-mee...
In October 1981, flying tiger ancient human remains from Guizhou Provincial Museum trial excavation, the accumulation of complex, broadly divided into early and late phases. Early formation of yellow or grayish yellow, unearthed panda, Stegodon fossils, stone products are made for the late Paleolithic culture era. Advanced formation is black, black, unearthed animal genetic pulp for extant species, and human mandibular and chipped stone, grinding stone, grinding bone, pottery and other large, geological time for the Holocene, culture in the age of the Neolithic age, that about 4000 years ago to 6000 years.
Unearthed stone products made a total of 532 pieces of raw materials, mainly to flint stone, there is, nuclear, stone etc.. The stone to stone, with the forward direction of processing processing, types of hit device, a scraper, tip like device and dolabriform etc.. The scraper accounted for 76%, tip like device is small but fine processing. The axe is a symbol of the transformation of Neolithic culture. 27 pieces of polished stone, delicate process, a stone axe, stone adzes, stone spinning wheels, stone scraper, stone arrow head, small stones (spear) 8. The number of stone adzes, regular shape, with long oblique cutting tool representative. 79 pieces of bone, in addition to the 1 pieces of grinding residual bone scraper, are making bone, bone and bone shovel cone. The three notches in the teeth may be scratching the porcupine symbol. In addition to pottery and ball spinning round round cake 1, the rest are all pieces of artifacts. 1494 tablets. The uneven thickness, thickness of 1.2 cm, thickness of only 0.2 cm, high temperature, hard texture. About 70% of sand pottery, pottery sand shale pottery class accounted for 30%, very little. Sand and sand are mainly sand. Pottery ornamentation is complicated, there are thick rope lines and Fang Gewen cone, tattoo, carved lines and lines and other additional cone. There are 3 pieces of pottery pottery, which has 1 pieces of orange powder is subjected to pottery coating inside and outside the grey clay, on the exterior is painted with two parallel red bands. This is the first time in Guizhou, Guizhou is also the earliest pottery record.
The site has a new and old stone formation, and the cultural connotation is rich. Pottery appear more attractive, but considerable differences in advanced culture. These have great significance to the study of the relationship between the new and the old stone culture in Guizhou and the time continuity of the times.
In February 23, 1982, the Guizhou Provincial People's Government approved the publication of the provincial cultural relics protection units. 1981年10月，飞虎山古人类遗址由贵州省博物馆试掘，洞内堆积复杂，大致分早、晚两期。早期地层呈黄色或灰黄色，出土大熊猫、剑齿象等化石，石制品均为打制，文化时代为旧石器时代晚期。晚期地层呈黑色、灰黑色，出土动物遗髓为现生属种，并出人类下颌件和打制石器、磨制石器、磨制骨器、大量的陶片等，地质时代为全新世，文化时代属新石器时代，推测距今约4000年至6000年。
遗址出土打制的石制品共532件，原料以燧石为主，有是核、石片、石器等。石器以石片为主，加工方向以正向加工为主，类型有砸器、刮削器、尖状器和斧形器等。其中刮削器占76%，尖状器虽少但加工精细。斧形器似为向新石器文化转化的象征。磨制石器27件，加工精致，有石斧、石锛、石纺轮、石刮刀、石箭(矛)头、小石块等8种。石锛数量多，形制规整，以长形斜刃具代表性。骨器79件，除1件残的磨制骨刮刀外，均为打制骨器，有骨锥和骨铲。其中豪猪牙上的三道刻痕可能是刻划符。陶器除圆饼式及圆珠纺轮各1件外，其余全是器物碎片。计1494片。其厚度不匀，厚者达1.2厘米，薄者仅0.2厘米，火候高，质地坚硬。夹砂灰陶约占70%，夹砂黑陶占30%，泥质类陶极少。夹砂陶以夹细砂为主。陶片纹饰复杂多样，有粗细绳纹、方格纹、锥刺纹、刻划纹和附加锥纹等。陶片中有3片彩陶，其中有1片是在泥质灰陶的内外施以粉澄色陶衣，再于外表绘有两条平行的红色条带。这是贵州首次发现，也是贵州迄今最早的彩陶记录。
遗址具有新、旧石器地层叠压，文化内涵丰富。彩陶的出现更引人瞩目，但中、晚期文化差异颇大。这些对研究贵州新、旧石器文化的相互关系和时代延续问题具有重要的意义。
1982年2月23日，经贵州省人民政府批准公布为省级文物保护单位。
Fossil Gastropods (Lophospira sp.) from the Richmond Group. These snails, now extinct, are of Middle Ordovician age, about 460 million years old. Brookville, Franklin Co., Indiana.
Fossil Fly (Order: Diptera) preserved in the Upper Eocene Florissant Formation about 34 million years ago. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Teller Co., Colo.
Plagiostoma striatum, fossil bivalves, Muschelkalk, Triassic, Rüdersdorf, Germany, shot with a Nikon Z fc with a Nikkor Z MC 50 mm 1:2.8.
The large curved cephalopod fossil, with a transverse segmented/ribbed pattern, spans about 15 cm (top to bottom). The dark grey linear and irregular mottle shapes are dolomitized burrows in this limestone rock.
For examples of other fossils and more scientific details, see the captions/explanations for my other photos of this rock type (Tyndall stone), in my "Geology in building stone" album.
C. J.R. Devaney
Fossil Spider (Order: Araneae) preserved in the Upper Eocene Florissant Formation about 34 million years ago. It's not possible to identify the genus or species but from the size of the palps you can tell this specimen is a male. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Teller Co., Colo.
Fossil, Oregon. RPPC.
1918 FOSSIL ORE. Postmark.
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In our village we have a sandstone pit with beautiful fossil stone.
(photo by Luc)
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Taken with an ASI1600GT and SHO narrowband filters. 0.7x reduced EdgeHD8. Processed in Siril, GIMP StarnetV2 and Topaz AI. 9hrs total exposure.
Fossiles de coquillages bivalves du côté d'Anefgou (Anfgou) dans le Haut Atlas marocain.
D'après diapositive.
Fossil Pine Cone (Pinus sp.) preserved in the Upper Eocene Florissant Formation about 34 million years ago. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Teller Co., Colo.
Fossil March Fly (Plecia pealei). This insect, found in the Green River Formation, lived during Eocene time, around 45-50 million years ago. The specimen is about 1.5 cm long. Douglas Pass. Garfield Co., Colo.