Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Fossils of the Black Belt 2018-2019


This workshop is held every year in October. Here are some photographs from 2018, taken by Vicki Lais. We were studying what fossils can tell us about interactions among organisms.


Fossils of the Black Belt 20 (2019)  — a Hands-on Field Workshop

The Geological Survey of Alabama and the University of West Alabama take the lead in presenting Fossils of the Black Belt 20, the latest in a long-running series of annual field paleontology workshops for teachers. This year's workshop will focus on biostratigraphy, the science of what fossils can tell us about the layering and ages of rocks. We will meet at Harrell Station, a productive Cretaceous fossil site on private land near Selma, Alabama. The workshop will take place on Tuesday, October 15, 2019. The cost is $28 for this one-day workshop. This includes lunch and a vast array of science-education goodies, including the famed book by Jim Lacefield, Lost Worlds in Alabama Rocks (a $25 value).

To register, please contact Dr. David Kopaska-Merkel, 205-247-3695, dkm@gsa.state.al.us.


Some of the free stuff.



The field site.



Fossil worm tubes, Hamulus.



A teacher, finding cool fossils.



Marking an important find for future excavation. We found a pterosaur!



A wide variety of mollusks here, especially, so many kinds of oysters.



Teeth are common: shark, fish, mosasaur.



A shark tooth.


This teacher is armed.



I missed the joke, but this teacher found more than anybody else.



A baby mosasaur jaw.



Fossil hunting.


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