Album: Vicksburg National Military Park Fossil Resources

Vicksburg National Military Park

Photos and illustrations from the report, "Rich MM, Beightol CV, Visaggi CC, Tweet JS, Santucci VL. 2023. Vicksburg National Military Park: Paleontological resource inventory (public version)". Natural Resource Report. NPS/VICK/NRR—2023/2516. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado. https://doi.org/10.36967/2299268

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A photograph of a waterfall descending over a rock face made up of a series of beds that are more or less resistant to erosion. Dormant or dead trees and hanging vegetation are visible around and beyond the rock face. A pond dominates the foreground.

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A black-and-white geological column shown as a cut through a steep bluff, delineating 15 vertically stacked beds. Below this diagram are 26 small drawings of various invertebrate fossils.

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A compound figure with two images. On the left is a stone carved into a feline shape. On the right is a close-up of the pipe showing the flat, chambered cross-section of a fossil.

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Black-and-white sketches of the Vicksburg area from above and as viewed from a boat on the Mississippi River.

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A black-and-white sketch of military fortifications featuring three cannons on gun carriages, an American flag, and several soldiers and officers.

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A park map of Vicksburg National Military park, showing park boundaries, roads, trails, modern and historic river locations, visitor facilities, and American Civil War locations of interest.

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A geologic map of Vicksburg National Military Park, using different colors to show where various geologic units are present at or near the surface.

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A person crouches on a steep sedimentary slope beneath a large overhang of more resistant rock, with a waterfall visible on the right.

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A photo of a weathered geologic exposure. In the middle is a horizontal interval with closely packed small fossil shells.

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A photo of a person crouching and picking up small objects from a sloping surface of sediment weathered from rock exposed above. An overhang above shades the upper area of the photo.

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A geologic map of the state of Mississippi, using different colors to show where various geologic units are found at or near the surface.

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A photo of rusty-red fine-grained rock beds sandwiched by lighter-colored sandy beds.

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A photo of a rock composed in large part of various complete and partial fossil shells, some smooth, others with prominent ribbing.

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A photo of a steep bluff with evidence of recent landslides and what appears to be blacktop at the top of the bluff.

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A photo of layered rocks exposed in steep cuts, with trees visible behind and above.

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A compound figure including three parts. Part A at the top shows a crouching person pointing to where a low slope transitions to a steeper slope. Part B in the lower left shows light-colored fossils in situ in dark rock. Part C in the lower right shows orange loess over darker rock with light fossils.

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A photo of light-colored shells in darker rock with a scale bar next to them, showing the shells are about 1 to 2 centimeters (about 0.4 to 0.8 inches) across.

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A photo of exposed clays with red staining indicating iron minerals. A staff nearby has 1-foot (30.5 cm) colored segments, showing the exposure is more than 1 foot tall.

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A compound figure made up of two photos, each showing a person standing in front of steep sediment scarps.

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A photo of an excavation into the side of a hill, with a man standing near the steep excavated wall. A large plaster jacket represents excavated and protected mastodon tusks.

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A photo of a piece of gravel with a starburst-like cross-section of a fossil solitary coral. A scale bar show that the cross-section is about 2 centimeters (0.8 inches) across.

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A compound figure showing four images of light-colored fossil snail shells embedded in darker sediment. They range from 0.5 to 2 centimeters (0.2 to 0.8 inches) across.

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A photo of a person kneeling on a gravel bar next to a stream, looking at the gravel.

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A photo of two knobbly coral specimens, resembling short segments of stems with circular structures on them featuring radiating lines.

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A compound figure made up of four photos of small (less than 1 centimeter or 0.4 inch-long) clam shells, the two on the left showing shells with concentric ridges and the two on the right showing shells with ribbing. The upper photos are exteriors and the lower photos are interiors.

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A compound figure made up of two photos of small (millimeter-scale) clam shells with concentric ridges. The upper photo shows exteriors and the lower photo shows interiors.

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Two views of a pointed shark tooth.

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A photo of a piece of gravel with a lacy, sheet-like fossil of a bryozoan on it.

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Photo courtesy of Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.

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A compound figure of two photos of different views of large (as long as 12 centimeters or close to 5 inches), whelk-like snail shells.

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A compound figure made up of four photos of small (slightly more than 1 centimeters long, about 0.5 inch) snail shells coiled like scrolls, the two on the left of a steep, pointed form and the two on the right of a more rounded form.

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A compound figure composed of two photos showing two views of small (less than 1 centimeter or 0.4 inch) tall-spiraling snails.

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A compound figure composed of two photos showing two views of small (about 1 centimeter or 0.4 inch) low-coiling snails with smooth shells.

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A compound figure composed of two photos showing two views of large (more than 2 centimeters, close to an inch) low-coiling snails with textured shells.

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A photo of two tusk shells, up to about 4 centimeters (1.6 inches long).

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A compound figure showing a circular crinoid stem segment in the upper photo and two pieces of gravel in the low photo. One is the coral fossil from Figure 19, and the other, on the right, is an impression of a crinoid stem segment.

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A photo of a small (less than 1 centimeter or 0.4 inches) coiled snail shell.

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A photo of a circular fossil in situ. It is about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) across.

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A photo of a steep outcrop above a slope of loose eroded sediment, with a red-and-white banded pole for scale. Each band is 1 foot or 30.5 centimeters.

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A photo of gravel, focusing on a central piece with abundant fossils including circular crinoid stem pieces.

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A compound figure composed of three photos. The upper photo shows a dark outcrop just above a stream. The lower left photo shows a couple of light-colored fossil shells in a dark matrix. The lower right photo shows a dense accumulation of light-colored shells in a dark matrix.

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A photo of a weathered steep outcrop with a scale bar.

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A diagram of a stratigraphic section taken at the waterfall in Figure 37, showing the beds of the Glendon Limestone, over the Marianna Limestone, over the Mint Spring Marl, over the Forest Hill Sand.

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A compound figure composed of four photos of outcrops. The upper left shows cave-like weathering, The upper right shows steep walls. The lower left shows an outcrop along a stream. The lower right an outcrop that is weathering blocky.

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A photo of a low ledge in a steep bank with a red-and-white banded pole for scale. Each band is 1 foot or 30.5 centimeters, and the ledge is about 2 feet or 60 centimeters tall.

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A photo of a large snail shell (close to 3 centimeters, more than 1 inch) in situ in sediment.

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A photo of a large oyster shell (about 7 centimeters or 2.75 inches long) in sediment.

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A compound figure composed of two photos, the smaller photo on the left showing a person crouching in a dry stream bed to examine rocks, the larger photo on the right showing leaf impressions in a piece of broken travertine.

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