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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Crocodile who wrote (51427)5/29/2000 12:40:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) of 71178
 
When I was a youngster my dad packed me and my younger sister into the car, and we went to a bit of badland pretty evenly a full diameter away on the capital Beltway. They were building a shopping center there, and there was this creek that had dug a really impressive ceramic miniature of points West. Embedded in the lower strata were all sorts of interesting things. Large but poor-quality fossils of ammonoids, some with bits of pearly shell still showing between the partitions.
Many bivalve molluscs, and a most impressive assortment of perfect glossy razor-sharp sharks' teeth.I gathered a whole Flintstones vitamin jar full of those ... over three hundred teeth of wildly varying shapes and sizes. I understand there are shores along the Chesapeake where these teeth are right there on the beach.

I found one piece of ammonite that was really neat. It was six or seven partitions worth, sutured together like a jigsaw puzzle. The shell has eroded out, leaving only the sandstone casts of the partitions. They were loose and yet interlocked, and they could move against each other like some stiff accordion.

I lost that piece in a move. I still think of it once in a while.

Ironically, the mall they threw onto such nice fossil land was right next dooe to proto-Spouse's house. Walking distance. In my twenties I made that same drive frequently, and each time I'd look at the reclaimed badlands behind that mall and wonder what glories lay concealed under the square mile of parking lot.
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