VOLCANO MADNESS: Re: Tennessee Geology( was: Re: [Geology2] An Accurate Way of Predicting Landslides)

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Re: Tennessee Geology( was: Re: [Geology2] An Accurate Way of Predicting Landslides)

You had me at "I live at the edge of the K/Tboundary..." So um, you can actually see the soot layer? I would pay you your price for a vial full of that black death.

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Lin Kerns <linkerns@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Kenneth,

I used to be an instructor at Coon Creek Science Center so I'm glad you had a chance to see those late Cretaceous fossils. :-) Hopefully you had a chance to enjoy the astronomy program, too. I haven't been to the Silurian glades near Waynesboro, so I'll have to check that out, but I've been to the crab site in Selmer and procured a late Cretaceous crab (90% of it) before a stupid Motel 6 was built over it. The Nashville Dome has an interesting story behind it, and at Pickwick State Park, one can hunt for Trilobites, Bryozoans, tube worms, coral, and clams. I have several nice pieces I found there. I currently live at the edge of the K/T boundary north of the location of CCSC, but I do have a few leaf imprints from the area from that time period.

And you're right... we ARE just barely scratching the surface. :-) Come back and visit our state, soon!

Lin

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Kenneth Quinn <mosasaur47@email.msn.com> wrote:

Tennessee has lots of nice geological sites, as might be expected from such a long state. Back in the mid-70s I visited the famous deposit of Cretaceous fossils (Coon Creek? I forget the name) and also the Silurian glades with the famous sponges, near Waynesboro, as I remember.. Much more recently, near Jamestown, I saw a roadcut that was essentially a reef of Lithostrotionella (sp?), the Mississippian colonial coral. Also, I have memories of traveling up I-65 from Alabama and stopping at exits to collect from exposures of Ordovician limestones - all sorts of bryozoans, brachiopods, etc. And of course that barely scratches the surface!

Kenneth Quinn

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