fossilized6s Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Does anyone have or know where to get K-T boundary material? I know it's high in Iridium content, is it illegal to have? Here's what im talking about. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Does anyone ... know where to get K-T boundary material? Go to where it is exposed and collect some. "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
painshill Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 (edited) There’s no problem in owning such specimens. There are three samples here, obtained from various sources in the past: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/38696-k-t-boundry/?hl=drumheller#entry425161 I’ve sent you a PM with a link to the website of a friend of mine in the UK who currently has some specimens for sale. “High” in iridium is only a relative term of course. The boundary material is typically around 42 parts per billion, versus more typical values around 0.3 parts per billion for other parts of Earth’s surface. Edited April 11, 2014 by painshill Roger I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who [Rudyard Kipling] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 You might be interested in this: Yancy, T.E. and K.J. Koenig. 1984. The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary and Lower Tertiary of the Brazos River Valley. It's a field trip guidebook from the South Texas Geological Society. You can order it here: http://www.beg.utexas.edu/pubs/gcagscatalog.php#top There are a lot of other inexpensive geology and paleontology publications there (some only a dollar or two). Does anyone have or know where to get K-T boundary material? I know it's high in Iridium content, is it illegal to have?Here's what im talking about.KT_boundary_pan.preview.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Keller/Adatte(oldie,but given its source.........): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/33683374_Chicxulub_impact_predates_K-T_boundary_New_evidence_from_Brazos_Texas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 slightly newer: once again,Brazos https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222569784_Biotic_effects_of_the_Chicxulub_impact_K-T_catastrophe_and_sea_level_change_in_Texas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 iridium enrichment : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260885617_Platinum-group_element_PGE_geochemistry_of_Deccan_orangeites_Bastar_craton_central_India_Implication_for_a_non-terrestrial_origin_for_iridium_enrichment_at_the_K-Pg_boundary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-AnThOnY- Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 What exactly are you looking for? A bunch of what I collect is along this boundary in Mississippi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 (edited) The Scollard Formation ( and others) in Alberta span the Cretaceous/Paleocene. I probably have traces of the division stuck in the treads of my hiking boots. Have to cross the KT boundary when going down to roam around Late Maastrichtian terrestrial badlands (home of Trex and friends). Supposedly no dino material above the bounday but I have found a few raptor teeth in the earliest Paleocene. Perhaps they got there via flooding, glaciation, etc....but? Edited July 7, 2016 by Ridgehiker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 D & D fossils in UK selling vials and samples from different localities http://www.rhyniechert.com/ktboundary.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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