The October meeting will be held on Monday the 21st at 6:30pm at the Illinois State Museum.
Our program will be Mazon Creek Lagerstatte Flora by one of our very own members, Tom Williams
Coal was first found in 1673 along the Illinois River by Marquette and Joliet essentially beginning the history with the Mazon Creek fossils. Coalmining commenced in the 1850’s resulting in specimens being sent to the Illinois Geological Survey. The Mazon Creek was deposited on the Pennsylvanian of the Carboniferous time period of the Paleozoic which has been called the era of mud. Coal swamps with sediment formations deposited in cyclothems or sequences of deposition resulted in very rapid sedimentation in an estuary environment. Many varieties of seed ferns and other plants were present and preserved providing a complete look into the coal swamps of Illinois.
Our program will be Mazon Creek Lagerstatte Flora by one of our very own members, Tom Williams
Coal was first found in 1673 along the Illinois River by Marquette and Joliet essentially beginning the history with the Mazon Creek fossils. Coalmining commenced in the 1850’s resulting in specimens being sent to the Illinois Geological Survey. The Mazon Creek was deposited on the Pennsylvanian of the Carboniferous time period of the Paleozoic which has been called the era of mud. Coal swamps with sediment formations deposited in cyclothems or sequences of deposition resulted in very rapid sedimentation in an estuary environment. Many varieties of seed ferns and other plants were present and preserved providing a complete look into the coal swamps of Illinois.
