Tagged: Other States

Rucks Pit – Florida 1-2015

Rucks Pit – Florida 1-2015

Day 3 found the 5 of us at the Fort Drum Crystal Mine (aka – Rucks Pit), a farm field turned into a large collecting are where spoil piles of material are dumped from...

SMR Quarry – Florida 1-2015

SMR Quarry – Florida 1-2015

It’s cold, it’s snowing and I’m cooped up inside and want to go fossil hunting. The solution? Go to Florida, of course! And that is how a plan was hatched to go do some...

Oklahoma 10-2014

Oklahoma 10-2014

Just a few hardy souls made the trek from North Carolina to Oklahoma in October for the 4 day hunt (Linda McCall, Lynn Moore, Diane Willis, Carl Willis and Earl Guertin making up the...

Utah Trip 5-2014

Utah Trip 5-2014

Paleozoic invertebrates of Millard County Utah, May 28th-31st, 2014.  NCFC Vice President, “JB” Bain, led a trip that included Brian and Brigid Kram and three of their young children (Kolbe, Aidan, and Agnes); Pam...

Smithsonian Trip 4-2014

Smithsonian Trip 4-2014

The cherry blossoms were done blooming, but even so – eleven members of the North Carolina Fossil Club journeyed to Washington DC on Good Friday to visit the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History...

Texas Trip 10-28-2012

Texas Trip 10-28-2012

Day 4 consisted of several Cretaceous Duck Creek Formation sites around Ft Worth where we searched for (and found) large Macraster echinoids, and a few ammonites, then on to a couple more Cretaceous Goodland...

Texas Trip 10-25-2012

Texas Trip 10-25-2012

Eleven hardy North Carolinians headed to Texas for 6 days of non-stop collecting. The group consisted of: James Bain, Earl Guertin, Joy Herrington, Rufus Johnson, Ramona Krailler, Linda McCall, George Oliver and Diane and...