Interesting Article

[nikkibabee]

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/dave_matson/young-earth/specific_arguments/coral_reef.html

 

[fritz]

Some Discovery channel show was showing coral skeletons in a fresh water lake in North Dakota I think. They were from...uh...not pangea....I wasn't paying much attention. It was just before all of North America was desert, it was underwater. I don't remember it was interesting. Anyhow there are a few freshwater lakes in the world that were at one time under water and those coral fossils can be found. That is cool, not tripod fish cool, but still cool.

 

[nikkibabee]

Lol..anything with water and life in it is cool to me...I think it is so interesting. The tripod is however, tops in my book as well.

 

[lfsmarineguy]

If you drive around NY state at all you will see outcroppings along most highways of a light greyish green rock. The rock is called serpentina (sp?) it feels greasy to the touch and is pretty dense. That stuff was at one point the ocean floor here where NY is. There are a ton of places in NY where you can literally trip over fossils (which is actually how I originally got into this hobby).

 

[e.muehlbauer]

I went to college upstate, in Geneva, NY. There was a canyon nearby where we used to go camping....the bottom was all shale, and every, I mean every, rock was packed with fossils...I believe from the Devonian..mostly crinoids, brachiopods, and corals. The corals had the exact same shape as a Cynarina skeleton, only smaller. Trilobites were rare...I only found one. I still have a scar on my finger from smashing rocks.

 

[nikkibabee]

Wow that is pretty cool, not the scar part..heehee but the rest. Its really interesting to learn out our past and how the world is changing.

 

[noodleman]

:scratchch i want to go trilobite hunt now

 

[lfsmarineguy]

I have collected trilobites ever since I was a kid. I think that's where my interest in this got started. This area isn't great for much of anything besides crinoids and shells mostly. I have mostly rarer trilobites but I do have a phacops that I'm sure could have run down a small child if it were alive lol.... huge. My uncle has some pretty good crinoids he got from upstate with their entire stalk and head. There aren't many places you can easily get to where you can find the good stuff.