Thank you all for the nice comments...
Creekcam and B-man, lol..that's just what I've collected since May and what an awesome 3 months it's been..I've been fossiling for years and I had quite an extensive collection but when I got flooded earlier this year, I was at work when the water suddenly rose at the rate it did and by the time I was notified and got to the house..it was too late, the firemen tried to stop us but the kids and I waded in for a few minutes to get clothes and stuff to carry us through, put up and save what we could, till it receded..most of what I had was from western NY and it was destroyed by the water..the main rock from that region is a soft shale to mudstone/clay type and they totally dissolved to mush so I have to start over.
Goldhouse..if you like those ferns, you'll love my white pyrophilite ferns from St. Clair, PA..one of only two locations in the world where due to the natural mineralization processes the ferns are pure white on a black shale, if you can find the good stuff..most of what is in the quarry has rust stains from the high iron content in the rock which turns the ferns yellowish to orange..which is pretty too but the pure white is the prized find..I even found a few that are silver in color.
Pyrophilite ferns...
Silver colored fern...
my pit full of pure white ferns...
pit with rusted pieces of ferns...
