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This is one city over from me! Really cool! http://www.clickondetroit.com/....html

thats pretty neat. it will be interesting to see if it really is a Mastadon

about 12 yrs ago a set of mastodon bones was found by a crew building a new subdivision just north of my city. it was a very upscale addition and construction was delayed while the rest of what hadn't been built on was excavated to make sure nothing else was there. it's always cool when something like this surfaces in our neck of the woods, huh?

Yes it is or will be really cool! On the news last night my wife and I saw kids handling the bones at the site! We thought what the heck, why would the construction crew let people handle them! Oh well as long as the bones are in a safe place now! I figure it is a Mastodon or some Circus elephant the got loose and died right there...

Back in the early '50s when I was ten to thirteen years of age, my folks owned a dirt farm near Linden, MI for three years. A dirt farm is what the name implies, i.e., we sold dirt. The top layer was black dirt. Below that was peat moss and below that was marl."marl n. A crumbly mixture of clays, calcium and magnesium carbonates, and remnants of shells that is sometimes found under desert sands and used as fertilizer for lime-deficient soils." -- Answers.comIn that marl, which was everywhere and almost completely white in color, I found partial and complete shells virtually everywhere. This was left from when this entire area was covered by a glacier. In the upper layers, I found numerous huge bones and teeth, some of which were larger than the ones shown in the news about that recent find. I played with them all the time. The University of Michigan sent busloads of students out every summer to comb the place, but never did stop in and ask us what we'd found. I wanted to go talk with them, but Dad said to leave them alone. I was just a kid, so what did I know?Looking back, I sure wish I'd saved that stuff.

There are a lot of fossil beds around this area too. In the Hueston Woods brochure it says all of what is now Ohio was one covered by a shallow sea and had a tropical climate, and now the fossils are all over deep down in the dirt and creekbeds. I can remember when I went to Carlisle Primary, we went over to Caesar's Creek to go fossil hunting and they let us all take one fossil back home, as big as we could carry. We got some fairly good sized ones, and mom and I still have ours.

Very interesting Houston!