Showing posts with label Tuscumbia Limestone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tuscumbia Limestone. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

313-million-year-old jawbone of an ass


Hammer time! But this is part of a crinoid or other echinoderm & the visible part is only about 1 mm long. Reddish-brown & with sediment welded to it--it sat out on the sea floor for quite some time. Tuscumbia Limestone, Mississippian, subsurface Walker Co., Alabama.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Crystals, small ones


Brick-shaped dolomite crystal encrusted by a fan of silica. Long dimension 0.1 mm (1/250th of an inch).

Monday, May 14, 2012

clams is teh awesome


Part of a clam, or a close relative, diagonally across the middle. The green is not Jello, but glauconite, a very pretty mineral that forms sometimes in seafloor sediments. From an ancient continental slope, now in western Alabama.

Friday, May 11, 2012

fossil coin



Not really. A discoid segment of a crinoid stem, one of a stack of calcium-carbonate "coins" made by an animal known as a sea lily. This is a small one, only about 1 mm across.