This is Mazon Monday post #26. What's your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:[email protected].
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The weather could not have been better for the annual Fall trip to Braceville, IL for Mazon Creek concretions this past weekend. For both days, we had lows in the 50s and highs around 70 degrees. There were 51 participants on Saturday and 42 on Sunday, with 9 of those on Sunday from the Kalamazoo Geological and Mineral Society (KGMS). Thanks for joining us!
We had several donations of fossils. Most notable was the donation from Ralph Jewell, Thanks! He donated several buckets of concretions, Mississippian fossils, Ordovician fossils, Pliocene fossils, and some fossils from Morocco. Hopefully, people won't be too confused with their findings! Everyone went home with something... be it finds from the spoil pile or the donated fossils.
There is a great field trip report by Ralph Jewell on the Fossil Forum. If you aren't a member over there, you are really missing out on some great information and discussions. Sign up... it's free! You will learn more than you ever imagined about fossils and their place in the natural world!
Here are a couple videos of the distribution of donated material on Saturday.
Sunday.
Here is a photo of the hill... it's shrunk since my first visit in 2004.
A view from the top
Various photos from the day