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Posts treating: "fossil fishes"

Sunday, 29 November 2015

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50 Year Anniversary of Devonian Fossil Fish Find in Cleveland 

Louisville Area Fossils [2015-11-29 10:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (562 visits) info

 Devonian; US
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The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the start of excavating fossil fishes from their area. In 1965 construction to create I-71 road connecting downtown Cleveland with its southwestern suburbs revealed a treasure trove of Devonian fossils. The animals fossilized after their remains sank to the ocean bottom and settled in to the sediment that would

Back to the western Caribbean, Pt. 2 

Caribbean Paleobiology [2013-12-03 14:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info

 Neogene; PA,,BR,IN
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The previous post was to give you a brief introduction into the geology of the Chagres Formation, which is where we are focusing part of our collecting efforts. This next post is to give you an idea of what happens when we find fossils of large marine vertebrates in the Chagres.Often, when we find fossils in the Chagres these are on the rock exposed in the wave-cut platform along the beach (although there are exceptions). The benefit of this is the relatively easy access, the downside, is that [...]

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (28 May 1807 - 14 Dec.1873): No more ice... 

History of geology [2010-05-28 15:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (13 visits) info
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"I am afraid you work too much, and (shall I tell you frankly?) that you spread your intellect over too many subjects at once. I think that you should concentrate your moral and also your pecuniary strength upon this beautiful work on fossil fishes .... In accepting considerable sums from England, you have, so to speak, contracted obligations to be met only by completing a work which will be at once a monument to your own glory and a landmark in the history of science ...[ ]...No more ice, not [...]
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