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10/18/2013 2:49:58 PM
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Fossil collectors in here?
I'm not much of a fossil hunter. I collect agates, jasper, and obsidian found in the area. Because of the glaciers, we don't even have a whole lot of fossils to find here. While looking for gemstone, I came across some rocks interesting enough to save, all containing a weird patterns on them. The pattern is a track made out of a series of crescents that look a lot like if you took the edge of a grinder and ran it across the rock. I did some digging to find out what they were, and found out those are the fossil remains of cyanobacteria colonies. They are in the ballpark of 2 billion years old, some of the oldest fossils on Earth.
It is pretty neat to find something with that kind of connection to the past. I've studied up on fossils in the area and I'm going to try to find more. Anyone else collect fossils around home? What have you found?
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1 ReplyI used to collect fossils, I haven't got any in a good few years though. Where I live is lousy for finding any sort of precious stone or fossil apart from flint and the odd pebble :l We used to go to the seaside quite a lot and I got most of my collection from either the South of France, Lyme Regis or Fossil Shops in Cornwall. My best looking on is a fully intact Trilobite but they aren't too rare, I have a few Sharks Teeth which are pretty nifty and half a fossilized anemone and my personal favourite is a beautiful sandy coloured rock covered in fossilized tube worms which just looks awesome :D I might get back into collecting if I ever go near a coastline again, but living smack bang in the middle of the UK is a crappy place to look for them.
