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NFC: Collecting results
Well, as planned (sort of) I went to the Yazoo City region. I left
kind of late in the afternoon. Since noone else was coming I just
wanted to sample a couple of areas I knew about. Unfortunately
the water was very high, swift, and turbid due to a thunderstorm the
night before. After wading chest deep in muck all I had to show for
my efforts were a baby channel cat and a few fathead minnows.
So I went looking for a more managable creek, and shortly found
one that looked like perfect darter territory. Rocky, clear
(somewhat), and cold. After a few swipes with the dipnet came up
empty, my son got bored and started throwing rocks. He found an
unusual one and showed it to me, and I immediately recognized it
as a fossilized bivalve. We started looking for more and found
them all over the place. Also a piece of petrified wood and a bone
fragment.
So, it wasn't a total wash. We brought home about 20 fossils,
most of which were the aforementioned bivalve.
Prost,
Martin
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