pleecan Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 (edited) Oct 31/2010 , I awoke to the sound of rain pelleting down on the roof... it is 6am..... I had been up for most of the night feeding the woodstove to keep warm as the temp droped to low 40's ..... everytime the temp droped to mid 60-'s I would wake up to to feed the woodstove to maintain temp +70F... did not have time to hook up the ventless propane heater (next yr project).... most of the neighbours have winterized their cottage ... gone home and were done for the year.... Its now 10am and now the rain had temporary stopped. I loaded the car ready the trip home 3hr drive..... I drove along shoreline oh Lake Huron to the dredge navigation channels... rock from the bottom of Lake Huron hads been dumped along the edge of the channels.... just when I got there the sky opened up and it poured with winds 40 mph and there was rain with some ice pellets... it felt cold.... I saw in the distant blue skies as front was passing through so I waited in the car... 20min. have passed and ther rain stopped.... the rain had washed the muck off surfaces I collected a number of nice hash plates.... I collected a pail +20lbs of material and was satisfied.... I will be posting those in the next few days. Before I headed home I decided to visit Kettle Point Park famed for the Kettle concretions.... Kettles are protected and as park designation... no fossil hunting Kettles in the water near shore Some of the concretions are on display in the park.... Kettle Point Formation Black Shale deposit Here is a concretion split to reveal fossilized material at the core of nucleation of the concretion. Close up of the center of the concretion Origins of Kettles: http://www.whaton.uwaterloo.ca/waton/f901.html Edited November 2, 2010 by pleecan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beck man Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 bam bam shouts to mam wheres me ball gone? beck man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Man, Peter, you are HARD CORE to go out collecting in that kind of weather. Respect! I did that once, but I had no choice as I was in Winnipeg for one day and had a chance to collect at Stoney Mountain (great Upper Ordovician site), and that one day was 1 degree C and sleet. These days I think that kind of weather would kill me. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted November 1, 2010 Author Share Posted November 1, 2010 Hi Don: Just trying to get in the last bit of collecting before old man winter shows up at the doorstep... It has been a good year collecting wise. I had a 1hr time window to collect... then it started to rain right after I packed up the gear ready for the voyage home. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Hi Peter, Looking forward to seeing the results of your last collecting trips, including North Pit. Best wishes, Roger Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Peter.... Great report.... I have often found perfect carboniferous concretions with nothing inside them to be a nucleation point... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 No fun to break camp in the cold rain... Still, there is something about "large weather"; makes the good days all the sweeter. Thanks for the Kettle Point pics! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Wow, cool site to visit. Thanks for the info and trip report. That shale looks just like the Genesseo formation in NY. Is the Kettle point formation also at the base of the upper Devonian? -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted November 2, 2010 Author Share Posted November 2, 2010 Wow, cool site to visit. Thanks for the info and trip report. That shale looks just like the Genesseo formation in NY. Is the Kettle point formation also at the base of the upper Devonian? Yes ... The Kettle Point formation (base of the upper Devonian) sits ontop of the Hamilton Group (middle Devonian). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted November 2, 2010 Author Share Posted November 2, 2010 Peter.... Great report.... I have often found perfect carboniferous concretions with nothing inside them to be a nucleation point... That is an interesting observation Steve.... I have been told by local collectors that the centers of these concretions may contain bits of bone or wood and other fossilized remains.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordovician_Odyssey Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 great report! that scenario sounds almost exactly like what happened here the other day, except it was snow.....anyway it's alwase a shame to pack it all up and wait for winter to pass. but thats life in canada. -Shamus The Ordovician enthusiast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted November 2, 2010 Author Share Posted November 2, 2010 Well Roger and Auspex... here are few more pics of Kettle Point Park..... Concretions in the water... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Thanks for the collage. Very nice! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted November 2, 2010 Author Share Posted November 2, 2010 You are welcome Roger... will be posting some real fossil pics soon.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted November 3, 2010 Author Share Posted November 3, 2010 Plate 1 from Kettle Point.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pleecan Posted November 5, 2010 Author Share Posted November 5, 2010 (edited) Plate#2... any ID the Devonian trilobite fragment? Edited November 5, 2010 by pleecan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 You're killing me with these wonderful "hash" plates! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 yeah, those are just wrong. practically forces me into a road trip, but i'll resist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted November 5, 2010 Author Share Posted November 5, 2010 You're killing me with these wonderful "hash" plates! Thanks Auspex...I had lots of fun collecting these plates only 1/4mile from my "fossil hut" cottage.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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