Showing posts with label limestone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label limestone. Show all posts
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Fossils at the Normandy Cemetery
On my last visit to France, I visited the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial.
At the horseshoe shaped memorial, I found the remains of marine fossils in the limestone plates on the west face of the north loggia and the steps there. One plates with the carved text, I found what looks like the cross sections of crinoids.
Reading a 2002 document about the cemetery from The American Battle Monuments Commission, "The loggias and colonnade are of Vaurion, a French limestone from the Cote d'Or region; the plinths and steps are of Ploumanach granite from Brittany." The limestone might date to the Jurassic Period (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Or_(escarpment). I found a reference in a historic building stone book that Vaurion limestone might also be called Marssangis (http://www.geostonesrl.com/english/stones/other/massangis-clair-nuance/). This stone dates to the Jurassic.
Then images below are of maybe fossilized gastropods or ammonites:
The Great Seal of the United States in next to the carved text. The top shows the Eye of Providence with the text Annuit cœptis Latin for "has favored our undertakings". Under that is the 13 layer pyramid representing the original 13 colonies with the bottom layer showing 1776 in Roman numerals for the year of the Declaration of Independence. Novus ordo seclorum from the Roman poet Virgil translated to "a new order for the ages". Learn more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Limestone Capital of the World
It is limestone month in Indiana and at the heart of the industry is Bedford, Indiana. Here are a few pictures from that area taken while traveling to the Bloomington, Indiana mineral/fossil show.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Bubble Pseudofossils at Blankenbaker Road
Here are some bubble looking structures found at a road cut at Blankenbaker Road in Louisville/Jeffersontown Kentucky.
There are a lot of these shapes in the rock but I am not sure it was some sort colonial creatures or just little rocks bunched together.
UPDATE (2014): This is probably some sort of oolitic limestone.

There are a lot of these shapes in the rock but I am not sure it was some sort colonial creatures or just little rocks bunched together.
UPDATE (2014): This is probably some sort of oolitic limestone.

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