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This is a controversial fossil, the so-called "Orce Man" (Homo sp.) a cranial fragment from 1.3-1.8 million years. The piece was never fully recognized as a true hominid fossil, but lithic tools found later (1.4 m.y.) made it very factible.
The dark brown skull is only a plaster support for the fragment (on top).
Fossil hunting along I-64 in West Virginia. The locality includes many plant fossils and some marine fossils. The latter included a few crinoid ossicles with a small pointy tooth.
Hal & Randy contemplating their big fossil find.
Hal says, "Randy I think this is a rock?"
Randy says, "hmmm...not to sure...lets not rush to any conclusions."
Hal, "...it feels like a rock and looks like a rock..."
Randy, "we just can't be too sure..."
Hal, "...let's ask your older, wiser and better looking brother (me) what it is..."
...and so this was our big Tower Rock adventure for the day.
Fossil hunting along I-64 in West Virginia. The locality includes many plant fossils and some marine fossils. The latter included a few crinoid ossicles with a small pointy tooth.
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While there is speculation betwixt the two of us as to exactly what we found, here is the evidence there are indeed fossils in the area, and not all of them are in the sand stone we have previously found the bivalve shells in.
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"Fossil Grove is Glasgow's most ancient attraction. It is a treasure unique to the city. The fossil trees and surrounding rocks provide an insight into the remote past - to the time if their formation about 330 million years ago.
Excavation of the site revealed fossil trees preserved in the position in which they were once growing. The site thus represents a small patch of ancient forest.
The model shows the position of the fossil remains - eleven stumps with their main roots together with a large section of fallen trunk and several smaller fragments of branch."
(text from information plaque in the Fossil Grove museum)
Fossil Grove website:
www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/member/fossil-grove
September 4, 2011
Fossil Grove
Victoria Park
Glasgow, Scotland
Within the era of scientifically accepted 'we are the cause of climate change and global warming' and its inevitable consequences, can we afford new and further exploitation of fossil fuels?
"The world possesses the tools and technology needed to reduce carbon emissions, build a more sustainable economy and end our reliance on fossil fuels."
www.huffingtonpost.com/jimmy-carter/climate-change-who-wi...
Currently Wales and the UK are awash with a tied of new fossil fuel exploitation, shale gas, coal bed methane and new open cast coal mines. So often cited as bridging too renewables, or replacing imported fossil fuels.
13 April 2014: IPCC PRESS RELEASE
Greenhouse gas emissions accelerate despite reduction efforts.
"Scenarios show that to have a likely chance of limiting the increase in global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius, means lowering global greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 70 percent compared with 2010 by mid-century, and to near-zero by the end of this century. Ambitious mitigation may even require removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere."
ipcc.ch/pdf/ar5/pr_wg3/20140413_pr_pc_wg3_en.pdf
All of this new fossil fuel development will bridge to renewables, pay for it, not distract from it? Does our governance seem like they are leading the way to mitigating climate change, are we a shinning example to others countries to follow suit?
Doesn't a global bullet need to be bitten within a short time scale, or is the bullet simply being deflecting for future generations to deal with, and its real impact?
Future Generations Bill: Better Choices for a Better Future
wales.gov.uk/topics/sustainabledevelopment/future-generat...
Join the National Conversation on 'The Wales We Want' thewaleswewant.co.uk
@valleysalliance
Promoting the real cost of open cast mining on local people and communities. Join our campaign to stop plans for an open cast mine near Rhymney #stopnantllesg
Nant Llesg, Rhymney, Wales · www.greenvalleysalliance.co.uk
Protesters say no to Nant Llesg open cast mine in Rhymney Valley
www.caerphillyobserver.co.uk/news/943739/protesters-say-n...
Campaigners fighting to stop death of the valleys turn out for mocked-up 'funeral'
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/campaigners-fightin...
Protest against Nant Llesg opencast mine plans
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-27123016
‘Death of the Valley’ Protest Against Nant Llesg Open Cast Mine Proposals
www.welshicons.org.uk/news/death-of-the-valley-protest-ag...
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Plant fossils may not be as impressive as faunal remains, but they are what allow us to reconstruct the ancient environment. They tell us how the landscape looked, what the climate was like, and what kind of habitats it provided for animals.
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This fossil is a solid cylinder and rather smooth, unlike the shark poo (coprolite) that I have found in the past. Might it be a part of a tusk or tooth? Found November 1, 2014 in Miramar. Measures about 1 1/4 inches (3 cm) x 2 1/3 inches (6.5 cm).
This piece of fossil dinosaur bone has been identified as a transverse process -- one of the projections on the side of a vertebra that forms the point of articulation for one of the ribs. It has further been identified as belonging to a Maiasaura, a type of duck-billed dinosaur of the Cretaceous. It was found in the Two Medicine Formation, at Dupuyer, Montana.
We're Winning!
"All across the state people are protesting a proposed coal export
terminal"- KHQ
TV News Station
"Environmentalists and other opponents of the terminal,
many of whom were dressed in red T-shirts, dominated public
testimony before a crowd of about 400."- Spokesman
Review
If Earned Media is any indication of of where we stand in the fight for
climate and environmental justice and a sustainable future against coal
exports, than the tide has turned in favor of activists and the
communities we strive to protect. The coal export battle is truly being
fought in the court of public opinion. Giant-sized sympathetic visuals
conveying the values we stand for and what threatens them, and an
engaging experience that helped communities feel a sense of shared power
were all prominent in the earned mainstream media coverage in Spokane
that included two television spots and the front page on their local
paper. The iconic imagery resonates so well that those in a position to
decide the regulations and even the coal export proponents were enamored
with it, excited, and joyful as they took pictures of and with it. We're
grateful to our supporters through whose support we're able to make sure
this critical flank of the fight is present to amplify, inspire, and
build engagement. If you are long to be a part of vibrant community
working to bring the world in closer harmony with your values, than join
Backbone Campaign, our
allies, and collaborators to build a powerful progressive movement.
Special thanks is owed to Spokane
Coalition Builders, and Occupy Spokane whose
dedicated engagement in their community and continued collaboration have
helped to reinvigorate engagement in the NW. The Power Past Coal
Coalition and Sierra Club have dedicated a ton of resources and energy
to mobilize the community to speak out at the hearings, with many other
community members from across the state and beyond sharing their talents
and gifts to make Fossil Fuel Foolishness a thing of the past.
During the last ice age, glaciers formed in the Sierra Nevada. Meltwater from the glaciers pooled into large lakes, including Owens Lake and the Owens River. The river traveled through to Indian Wells Valley, and its course was diverted several times by volcanic activity. The falls were formed when the river was forced to divert its course over a basalt flow, polishing and reshaping the rock into a variety of unique shapes and forms.
All the lava flows at Fossil Falls are basaltic. The Coso Volcanic Field brought flows from the north east and later Red Hill, which can be viewed from Fossil Falls, released the younger lava. The flows occurred between 400,000 years ago and 10,000 years ago. During this period, the glacial flows would run through Fossil Falls and smooth the vesicular basalt. The erosion found at Fossil Falls was formed by the youngest glacial runoff, called the Tioga, from the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range about 20,000 to 10,000 years ago.
In addition to the small gas vesicles in the basalt, there are large, perfectly circular penetrations in the basalt. These are erosional features called potholes. It is speculated that Red Hill cast out granitic detritus which fell into Fossil Falls. Water accelerates as it moves past the rocks. The relatively still water ahead forced the moving water to slow down and rotate to form an eddy. The high velocity currents were enough to catch the granitic rocks from Red Hill and spiral them downwards in multiple vortices, drilling them into the basalt. Sediments would get trapped and continue to circularly erode the holes.
Fossil Falls originally started downstream from where it sits today; it moved upstream as waterfalls typically do. Water falling over the edge of the waterfall undercut the falls and caused them to move upstream and grow taller. This process is called plunge-pool erosion.