Joined: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:14 pm Posts: 640 Location: Hohe Tauern N.P., Austria
Tim,
looks like this year I will have the honor of showing around a few GO members in Habachtal? Really looking forward ....
Be sure to get an anforgettable insight on the locality. When Spring comes nearer (snow conditions are the thing to watch cause of avalanche risk) I will start off a new thread with some guidelines (What to pack, where to stay, how to find me) and hope that some of the european members show up in the valley....
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Joined: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:14 pm Posts: 640 Location: Hohe Tauern N.P., Austria
Definetely looking forward guys!!! Will be great to see each other in person and go get some emmies!
Dug out the pics of my fossil collection. The pieces are in boxes stored away. I never really was that much into fossiles, although were I grew up, they were everywhere. The northern part bof Salzburg is all Limestones, tectonically brought up from the deep by the alpine uplift and erosion.
Where creeks dig into these layers, one can observe windows into the past, when my homearea was under water, on the shores of mare thethys.
Here are some of the pieces I collocted at the age of 9 -14 or so.
Ammonites uccur in red marble layers and when sawed, polished, show the perfection of nature, the golden cut.
And when one saws the greyish boulder, maritime life passed away millions of years ago shows up....
And if you carefully scupture the limestone away in hours of dusty work you get pieces like this :
And here´s a view over the place I grew up at, taken from the Untersberg Peak southwards. The flatter, hilly area in the valley holds huge salt deposits, from the former thethys ocean. The peaks in the distance are building up to about 2800 meters and are all limestone layers.
This is a Winterpic, but I think it fit´s into the season
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Joined: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:14 pm Posts: 640 Location: Hohe Tauern N.P., Austria
Here´s another nice one from the same box, it´s a marocco piece I think, traded it in for one of our local ones, it is still showing the rainbow colors of the original shell...
these look good on a leather band around the neck, too....
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Last edited by Nikolaus Lackner on Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:09 am, edited 1 time in total.
lol, mk, the Pachycephalosaurus has a thick noggin'! he reminds me of the Triceratops.
enjoyed reading part of the article of your friend's amazing fossil discovery, nik! nice ammonite that you collected near your home (great view, too!) as a young sprout. the moroccan ammonite is beautiful with its iridescent shell.
Joined: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:14 pm Posts: 640 Location: Hohe Tauern N.P., Austria
Thanks MK, you liked the story from Wolf´s discovery? There was even a better one in terms of curiosity and fossils.
Not far away, just over the border to Germany, in a small village there was a young boy. He was always out in the forests and tzhe fields and played, searched around he was thirteen I think. One day he mounted a metal-detector together, to search one of the creeks near his house for ammunition and Helmets from WWII. He walked the creek and got no Signal, but stepped over a HUGE bone, standing out of the ground. He started digging it out, and took it home with a friend´s hrlp, it was a Mammooth - Bone, he soon after discovered by reading books. He told the family to keep the secret and went out there day after day to collect bones from the place, until he had found the Skull the teeth and all other main parts of the skeleton. Then he was in puberty and was interested in girls and motorcycles rather than the bones hidden under the roof´s house.
Then when he had turned 18 (The age of legally being grown up), he went to the village mayor and told him, he hed foend a complete Mammooth when he was younger, and he want´s to sell it to the village for being displayed in a museum. The Mayor and the other people in the political board wanted him to give out the skeleton without payment, because they said, it belonged to the Village anyway. The youngster had chuzpe, he had moved the bones to a safe place, gave them just a bone to let it get schecked by a specialist in munich and he didn´t show them the place of discovery. He won. They had to give him a high sum, for getting the mammooth. And then he showed them the place itself. Professional paläobtologists exvacated many other COMPLETE skeletons of ice-age animals there, since there has been something like a natural Trap in a Swamp that all the animals fell in and didn´t manage to get out alive back then.
Good and motivating story to tell young sprouts that get out into the field -
and - one learnes that you not always exactly find what you are searching for, but maybe something better though.
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hi nik, i'm trying to imagine how and where in tarnation someone, especially a young sprout, would "hide" or keep in a safe place a mammoth skeleton just kidding with you!! i did enjoy reading your post though!!
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