Charles Blakeway Collection
CKB69

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My favorite passtime, where I collect mud, pictures, scars, and memories, but not specimens. This is me in one of Tennessee's 8,000+ known caves.

A fossil that didn't make it!, blue and white chalcedony in residual Mississipian chert. Montgomery Co. TN.

Escargot?, Mississipian gastropods (Bellerophon) from 3 different sources. Left to right: plowed field, streambed, and roadcut. Montgomery Co. TN.

Another gastropod, Shisiella. I recovered this one from a boulder of chert exposed on the edge of a pond bank. Robertson Co. TN.

Blastoid, Pentramites. From the same boulder as above specimen. This also yielded some very pretty druzy quartz vugs that resemble velvet!

Pyrope garnets from the Tweedy Mine near Morganton, N.C., this mine is now closed.

Spirifer in chert. These are also ubiquitous finds in this area. Montgomery Co. TN.

Schorl tourmaline from the Ray Mine. No aqua found that day, many years ago.

Yet another gastropod. Mr Straparollus was found in my favorite road cut. Montgomery Co. TN.