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Fossil
pothole at Taylors Falls, Minnesota. Formed by meltwater from Glacial
Lake Duluth. Downcutting exposed Late PreCambrian basalts . Mike Rudolph
for scale. |
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Fossil
pothole at Taylors Falls about 25 feet deep eroded into Proterozoic basalt
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Contact
between massive and vesicular texture in a basaltic lava flow. Aric Olsen
for scale |
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Vesicular
basaltic lava |
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Pahoehoe
texture (1.1 Ga) |
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Amygduloidal
basalt |
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Millstreet
Conglomerate, Ironton Formation, Franconian Stage, Taylors Fall, Minnesota |
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Crushed
shells of inarticulate brachiopods attached to a boulder from the Cambrian
conglomerate at Taylors Falls |
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St.
Croixian Series (Upper Cambrian) sandstone unconformably overlies basalts
of the Chengwatana Group (Late Proterozoic). Reuben Panchol for scale. |
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Franconian-aged
(Upper Cambrian) sandstone at Curtain Falls, nr Taylors Falls, Minnesota.
Aric Olsen for scale. |
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St.
Croixian Series inarticulate brachiopods from St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin |
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Pygidium
of the Upper Cambrian trilobite Uncaspis from the Eau Claire Formation,
Willow River , Wisconsin |
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Hyolithus
from the
Eau Claire Formation, Willow River , Wisconsin |
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Trace
fossils and ripple marks (crests are orange-brown) from the St. Lawrence
Formation, Red Wing, Minnesoata |
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Detail
of trace fossils from the Upper Cambrian St. Lawrence Formation, Red Wing,
Minnesota |
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Red
Wing fault - St. Lawrence Formation (yellow) against the Franconia Formation
(green - glauconitic). Chad Weisenburger for scale. |
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Slab
of limestone covered in mostly orthid brachiopods from the Middle Ordovician
Decorah Formation , Spring Grove, Minnesota |
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Small
Isotelus from the Maquoketa Formation, Upper Ordovician, nr. Granger,
Minnesota . Specimen
collected by Mike Wright. |
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Bumastoides?
from the Galena Group limestones, near Greenleafton, Minnesota. Specimen
collected by A.C.A. about 15 years ago. |
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Isotelus
from a Decorah Formation limstone, Spring Grove, Minnesota. Specimen collected
by A.C.A. 10 years ago |
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Trilobite
(Ceraurus?) embedded in a Stewartville Formation limestone, Greenleafton,
Minnesota.
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Diplograptus
from the Middle Ordovician Galena Group limestones, near Greenleafton, Minnesota |
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Orthoconic
nautiloid from the Platteville Limestone, near Spring Grove, Minnesota.
Specimen collected by Jeff Suttle about 10 years ago (see scale for size) |
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Section
of an orthoconic nautiloid from the Platteville Formation, Middle Ordovician.,
near Spring Grovr, Minnesota |
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Maclurites
from the Middle Ordovician Galena Group limestones, near Wyckoff, Minnesota |
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Fischerites
- a receptaculid from the Middle Ordovician Galena Group limestones, near
Greenleafton, Minnesota - surface view. |
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Fischerites
- a receptaculid from the Middle Ordovician Galena Group limestones, near
Greenleafton, Minnesota - side view. |
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Discontinuity
in a Prosser Formation limestone (Galena Group), near Greenleafton, Minnesota
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Contact between the Lithograph
City Formation and the lower stromatoporoid biostrome of the Shell Rock
Formation. Upper Devonian limestones from Mason City , Iowa. Justin Costa-Rica
for scale. |
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Banded
stromatoporoid from the Upper Devonian Shell Rock Formation, Mason City,
Iowa. |
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Styolites from the Upper Devonian Lithograph
City Formation, Mason City, Iowa |
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A
working group of NDSU students |
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A
Reuben based on Reuben Panchol - an alternative to the English and metric
systems? |
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Roark
Franklund - wet feet and all collecting in the Willow River |
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Team
A - Willow River State Park |
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Team
B - Willow River State Park |
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Paleo
Field Trip group 2003 on a St. Peters Sandstone outcrop. |
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Geology
303 butts. |
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Paleo
Field Trip group in Rockford, Iowa. |
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Allan
Ashworth |