MAZON CREEK BOOKS
ESCONI has reprinted its plant and animal books
Keys to Identify Pennsylvanian Fossil Animal of the Mazon Creek Area - $12.00
125 Pages, 212 Black and White Drawings
These will be available at the ESCONI General and Paleontology meetings for $12 or by mail (Postage and handling costs are $5.00. Check or Money Order only Make checks to Andrew Jansen
The Mazon Creek Fossil Flora by Jack Wittry
313 color pictures, 113 taxa, 145 drawings
$65 hard covers, $35 soft and $6 to ship
Write to
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Andrew Jansen |
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2 Langford Ct. |
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Bolingbrook, IL 60440 |
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630-739-7721 |
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esconibooks@aol.com |
Dealer Inquires Welcome\
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Related Web Sites are:
Mazon Creek FossilsThis is Illinois State Museum's online exhibit of the famous Mazon Creek fossils. The Mazon Creek fossils include many soft-bodied organisms that are not usually preserved.
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/mazon_creek
Localities of the Carboniferous: Mazon Creek, Illinois Lagerstatten -- localities with unusually good preservation of fossils -- are beloved places for paleontologists. Mazon Creek, near downtown Chicago, is one of these localities.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/carboniferous/mazon.html
Mazon Creek Collections Database
Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham
www.earthsciences.bham.ac.uk/museum
Lapworth Museum of Geology Carboniferous Fossils
www.earthsciences.bham.ac.uk/museum/palaeo/carboniferous/index.htm
Burpee Museum Mazon Creek Open House - October 21, 2000
Elgin Public Museum - October, 2001
College Of Dupage
Mazon Creek Open House Notes - 2002
Mazon Creek Flora, May 2003
Revisions to the Keys to Identify Pennsylvanian Fossil Plants of the Mazon Creek Area
Information on Collecting Mazon Creek fossils from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Grundy County Coal Mine Directory
Kankakee County Coal Mine Directory
Will County Coal Mine Directory
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