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freeformcabs

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Red Hill / Bray Creek Agate
« on: June 25, 2020, 09:38:42 AM »

I discovered this deposit back in 2010 near my now home in Payson. I took the local club there in March and these are pieces that came out of that trip.  It is a trace fossil and not petrified wood. It has been confirmed a long time ago. Dates to around 250-300 million years old.

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Re: Red Hill / Bray Creek Agate
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2020, 04:33:41 AM »

It is indeed red! Can you explain what you mean by trace fossil. I'm not familiar with that term. Clearly you have been busy and contributing a lot to several activities.  The virus does provide a stimulus to stop and consider and expand what we do and how much time we actually have to do it.  Keep on keep'n on. 
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Re: Red Hill / Bray Creek Agate
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2020, 10:32:08 AM »

In this case, the trace fossil is the home of the creature that created it. A shrimp. You wont find any shrimp fossils in this material. Just the cast of its home that fossilized.
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Re: Red Hill / Bray Creek Agate
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2020, 12:55:56 PM »

Hi Freeform:  I am looking but not seeing it.  Which specific feature in the rock texture is diagnostic of a shrimp home?  Thanks!
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Re: Red Hill / Bray Creek Agate
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2020, 12:27:17 PM »

Hey Ryaly2dogs,  The entire piece is a cast of a shrimp home. They come in many sizes. These casts are whats left of a complex of holes and tunnels that where dug out by the shrimp.
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Re: Red Hill / Bray Creek Agate
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2020, 05:29:58 PM »

Okay, I see it, big shrimp, though.
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