This is Throwback Thursday #63. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc ...), please sent them to [email protected]. Thanks!
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In April 2002, ESCONI had a field trip to Lone Star Quarry near Oglesby, IL. It looks like a rainy, muddy day. That trip was part of a yearly series to Lone Star. In some years, ESCONI had both spring and fall trips. Unfortunately, the trips ended in the late 2000's after an unrelated boating accident on the Illinois River. Not long after the accident, the quarry closed. Collecting at this fossil locality was always productive as the quarry exposed Pennsylvanian rock layers that were very fossiliferous. Brachiopods, crinoids, sponges, trilobites, cephalopods, and even shark teeth were plentiful. The State of Illinois purchased the Lone Star in October 2018, and there is now a proposal to turn it into a Fossil Park.
For more information, try our previous Lone Star posts in Flashback Friday and Throwback Thursday.
