Re: paleonet Union Chapel Mine

[Amy Morrison <morrisonad@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Julie Bartley <jbartley@westga.edu> wrote:
> Andy,
> 
> This is great news! The Union Chapel site is truly
> outstanding. The flora 
> preserved in these shales are also pretty
> remarkable, and to have all the 
> tracks, traces, and plants in the same spot in such
> abundance makes this 
> locality well worth preserving. All the folks that
> put so much time into 
> the effort to conserve this site should be
> commended.
> 
> Julie Bartley
> 
> At 04:59 PM 7/6/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >After a long struggle, the Alabama Department of
> Conservation has acquired 
> >the Union Chapel tracksite, which was in danger of
> being covered up during 
> >reclamation of this coal mine. The tracksite has
> yielded hundreds of 
> >well-preserved Langsettian (Early Pennsylvanian)
> trackways and vertebrate 
> >swimming traces (Undichna), as well as invertebrate
> trace fossils such as 
> >Treptichnus and Kouphichnium. A multiauthored book
> on the site is in 
> >preparation under the auspices of the Alabama
> Paleontological Society. The 
> >news was reported online by the Huntsville Times at
>
><http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1088786787125281.xml>http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1088786787125281.xml
> >
> >This comes soon after the preservation of the St.
> George tracksite for the 
> >public. I hope that other important tracksites can
> be set aside for 
> >research and display.
> >
> >Andrew K. Rindsberg
> >
> >Geological Survey of Alabama
> >P.O. Box 869999
> >Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-6999, USA
> >
> >
> 
>
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> Julie K. Bartley
> Associate Professor
> Department of Geosciences
> State University of West Georgia
> Carrollton, GA 30118
> 
> 770-830-2315
> 770-836-4373 (fax)
> jbartley@westga.edu
>
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