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Old September 2nd 03, 04:41 PM
Marina
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"Victor M. Martinez" wrote in

Your dad's a paleontologist? Cool!


He was until he passed away in 1988.

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Marina, who grew up in a house full of fossil bones
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Old September 2nd 03, 05:22 PM
Victor M. Martinez
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Marina wrote:
Marina, who grew up in a house full of fossil bones


That's got to be very cool... one of my sisters is a geologist and she has
all kinds of cool rocks and fossils in her house. Tom has a collection of
fossils we've found in the streams here in Texas. What is now Texas used
to be underwater, so there's all kinds of clams and other sea creatures
fossilized in the limestone that's so abundant here. I love going fossil-
hunting in the winter.


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Old September 2nd 03, 05:57 PM
Marina
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"Victor M. Martinez" wrote

That's got to be very cool... one of my sisters is a geologist and she has
all kinds of cool rocks and fossils in her house. Tom has a collection of
fossils we've found in the streams here in Texas. What is now Texas used
to be underwater, so there's all kinds of clams and other sea creatures
fossilized in the limestone that's so abundant here. I love going fossil-
hunting in the winter.


I remember going fossil hunting on a beach when I lived in the US as a
child - don't remember where the beach was, though. Hardly in Massachusetts,
where we were living. We did take a trip over the continent, from the
Niagara falls down to the Mexican border (didn't visit Mexico, though. (
It's still on my list of places to visit). So the beach was somewhere
between the two. ;o)

Our granite rock here in Finland is too hard for there to be a lot of
fossils here, so my Dad had to travel all over the world to dig for them. At
the time when I was born, he was in Tunisia at a large dig. He was often
away when I was little, but he was always thinking of us. I still have heaps
of cards from exotic places that he sent me.

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Marina, taking loooong trip down memory lane and missing Daddy

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Old September 2nd 03, 08:55 PM
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On the south side of Ciudad Juarez is a hill that looks as if it's
wearing a crown. It's about a mile above sea level. Once I climbed it
just for the heck of it and found that the 'crown' is the remains of an
ancient coral reef! For those of you who don't know, Ciudad Juarez is in
Mexico across the river from El Paso, Texas.

Victor M. Martinez wrote:
Marina wrote:

Marina, who grew up in a house full of fossil bones



That's got to be very cool... one of my sisters is a geologist and she has
all kinds of cool rocks and fossils in her house. Tom has a collection of
fossils we've found in the streams here in Texas. What is now Texas used
to be underwater, so there's all kinds of clams and other sea creatures
fossilized in the limestone that's so abundant here. I love going fossil-
hunting in the winter.



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Old September 3rd 03, 05:00 AM
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"Marina" wrote in message ...
"Victor M. Martinez" wrote in

Your dad's a paleontologist? Cool!


He was until he passed away in 1988.



Marina, don't you recognize the opportunity for a plug? :-P

I have read a couple of Marina's dad's books (one fiction, one non)
and they are *very* interesting and well-written. Quite a few are
available on amazon.com, and I do intend to get around to ordering
more of them one of these days.

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Krista
Who hopes Marina doesn't mind my posting this
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Old September 3rd 03, 05:26 AM
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giggle That's a thought - I like Christine's idea, too. I can't do
either one, though, while my grandmother is still living. Though it
wasn't her fur, and though she sort of understands my not wanting it,
getting rid of the thing would bother her considerably.

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Krista







giggle That's a thought - I like Christine's idea, too. I can't do
either one, though, while my grandmother is still living. Though it
wasn't her fur, and though she sort of understands my not wanting it,
getting rid of the thing would bother her considerably.

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Krista

Heh. You reminded me of my grandmother and her "mooton" (I have no idea how to
spell that) coat. What the heck *was* mooton, anyway? Fake something or other?

Sherry
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Old September 3rd 03, 05:28 AM
Marina
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"LOL" wrote


Marina, don't you recognize the opportunity for a plug? :-P

I have read a couple of Marina's dad's books (one fiction, one non)
and they are *very* interesting and well-written. Quite a few are
available on amazon.com, and I do intend to get around to ordering
more of them one of these days.

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Krista
Who hopes Marina doesn't mind my posting this


I don't mind at all, but you see, I can't plug them myself, because I *do*
have an economic interest here. ;o)

If you loan them at libraries, I get nothing. Except if you loan them at a
Swedish library, because they pay us for every loan. hint, hint

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Marina

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Old September 3rd 03, 07:03 AM
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Sherry wrote:


Heh. You reminded me of my grandmother and her "mooton" (I have no idea how to
spell that) coat. What the heck *was* mooton, anyway? Fake something or other?

Sherry


I believe mouton=sheep in French
Helen Wheels

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Old September 3rd 03, 01:26 PM
Victor M. Martinez
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LOL wrote:
I have read a couple of Marina's dad's books (one fiction, one non)


Bjon Kurten?

and they are *very* interesting and well-written. Quite a few are
available on amazon.com, and I do intend to get around to ordering


Ooohhhh.... Pleistocene Mammals of North America!!!

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Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

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Old September 3rd 03, 02:08 PM
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"Marina" wrote in message
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Will do. D Here's a short bio with a select bibliography at the end.

It's
not very extensive, and it doesn't list all the books that he wrote in
English by other than their Swedish and Finnish name.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bkurten.htm


Thanks, did he write in Swedish (Finnish?) as well as English then?
just trying to avoid a translation when I can ...
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