Fieldtrip Report:

Durham Coal Mine
Fossil Hunt
Near Lookout Mountain Tennessee
February 9th, 2008

More specimens...

A neat thing I found at this site, were iron nodules that contained fern fossils when split open. These are simular to the Mazon Creek fern fossils.

Nodule with fern inside.

Iron nodule on slate.

Iron nodule with fern inside.

This next piece is one of my favorites. It has an iron nodule that split perfectly in half exposing a perfect fern fossil.

Group of ferns.

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