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"Victor M. Martinez" wrote in Your dad's a paleontologist? Cool! He was until he passed away in 1988. -- Marina, who grew up in a house full of fossil bones |
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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. -- Victor M. Martinez http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv |
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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. -- Marina, taking loooong trip down memory lane and missing Daddy |
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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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"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. ------ Krista Who hopes Marina doesn't mind my posting this |
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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. ------ 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. ------ 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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"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. ------ 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 -- Marina |
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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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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!!! -- Victor M. Martinez http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv |
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"Marina" wrote in message
... 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 ... -- :: lewe ------------------------------------------------------------- lewemi at yahoo dot se || cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi |
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