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Brilliant, AL.

 
Collecting fossilized (60 to 100 million years old) sandstone wood covered withsmall drusy, smoky quartz crystals.   The specimens will range in size from small round buds and tree bark pieces to partial tree limbs and trunks.
Photo by Jim Flora            
At the meeting place - some instructions before we go!
At the meeting place!
1998 photograph
Photo by Jim Flora            
Lee Sumerlin with a couple of pieces of wood!
( Lee Summerlin and some "wood" covered with small drusy smoky quartz crystals.  (1998 photograph)
Photo by Jim Flora            
Breaking up the log with a jack!
Breaking up the 1,000 lb. fossil log!
(Specimens will range in size from small round buds and treebark pieces to partial tree limbs and trunks.)
Richard and Daniel digging a 1,000 lb. log.
Rchard holding a piece of a very large log.
(The fossilized sandstone wood found at Brilliant is from 60 to 100 million years old.)
Photo by Daniel Miller            

Fossil Log REMOVED!


 
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