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Echinoids from the Upper Maastrichtian
Oupeye-Bassenge-Vise area, Belgium |
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After posting several reports of trips to a quarry where the uppermost Campanian and Lower Maastrichtian are exposed, now a report of several trips into a quarry a little further North, all as one post.
As the formations gradually slope downwards when going North, the lowest parts in this quarry are still a little younger than the uppermost exposures in the other q... |
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King Echinocorys
Oupeye-Bassenge-Vise area, Belgium |
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Well, I got a mail last week from the dragline operator to inform me he had been working on the echinoid-layer. So if I would like, I was welcome to try my luck! Me wanting to come was not the problem, but work and a bad, persistant cold were. That and the cold wind. So I had to bide my time a bit, but did managed to get out there the other day.
How did I do? Well, the newl... |
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Queen of Hearts
Oupeye-Bassenge-Vise area, Belgium |
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Another trip to my favorite echinoid-quarry. Why it is my favorite ech-quarry? Well, there is always something to find and do and people to meet.
When they are not excavating the Cretaceous deposits themselves, they are often removing the overlying clay, sand and more importantly............. flint. This so-called flint-eluvium is the only remainder of ero... |
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Friend or Foe?
Oupeye-Bassenge-Vise area, Belgium |
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As a kind of “tradition” during my summer holidays I always have at least one day to do as I please, without any consideration for the rest of the family.
So this year Thursday, August 2nd was my own to schedule and guess what I did......................yep, some hardcore fossil hunting.
“What a surprise! My wife would say. 
So not quite dawn til... |
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"Father & Son"-day in the Belgian Cretaceous
Oupeye-Bassenge-Vise area, Belgium |
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Reading about all the trips in the US and - more recently - several trips to Mill in the Netherlands (one of my favorites), I approached ditchweezil about setting me up to post trips to the Cretaceous sites scattered around the Dutch-Belgian border, near Maastricht (yes, that's why they call the latest stage of the Cretaceous the Maastrichtian  ). So here I am with trip nr. 1.
As... |
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