By Mary Fairchild In all North America, the Mazon Creek flora has the largest number of species and greatest taxonomic diversity of any Moscovian Pennsylvanian period assemblage. More than 200 species have been documented, of which the majority are fern and seed fern foliage. Jack Wittry Jack Wittry has written six scientific articles and has published two…
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John Ruskamp Speaks at ESCONI: Midwestern Epigraphic Society, Pseudoarchaeology, and Xenoarchaeology Today
By Mary Fairchild My daughter exploring petroglyphs near Mesa, Arizona; 5/2014. I am fortunate to be able to visit Arizona annually where I find time to hike and trail run. Petroglyphs and pictograms are abundant in the Southwest (pictured above) and I have found them to be an added treasure to my time there. Naturally, when our local rock…
If I Could Turn Back Time: ESCONI Rock Club
By Mary Fairchild “The Mazon Creek flora is renowned for being almost completely collected by amateurs. Since 1858, in an area covering approximately 100 square miles, untold numbers of collectors have gathered fossils in quantities unprecedented in North America.” Jack Wittry In the mid-1990s when our family first became interested in collecting fossils our electric bill…