Tag: books
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ESCONI Books and Items for Sale
ESCONI actively sells our Club’s new books on Mazon Creek fossils that were written by Jack Wittry (an Honorary Club member). We also sell other ESCONI-branded items such as T-shirts, hats, mugs, ornaments, memory sticks, etc., in addition to used books that are donated to the Club. These items are for sale at ESCONI’s annual…
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Throwback Thursday #265: Old Books at MAPS
This is Throwback Thursday #265. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Paul Gritis Books is a mainstay at the Mid-America Paleontology Society’s EXPO. He was there again in…
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Mazon Monday #255: A Forest of the Coal Age
This is Mazon Monday post #255. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Over the years, the Field Museum published many pamphlets, leaflets, journals, bulletins, etc. There’s a page on the museum website dedicated to sharing that wealth of knowledge. The popular/leaflet series was a series of booklets on popular topics for…
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Mazon Monday #208: A Very Special Book
This is Mazon Monday post #208. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. —————————————————– We ran across another great post over on Facebook by Steve Pavelsky in the “Illinois Mazon Creek, and Carboniferous Fossils of the World” group. If you’re on Facebook and a fan of Mazon Creek, this is one of…
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Mazon Monday #166: Langford Book 2nd Edition – June 1963
This is Mazon Monday post #166. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. June 1963 saw the first copies of George Langford’s second book “The Wilmington Coal Fauna and Additions to the Wilmington Coal Flora From a Pennsylvanian Deposit in Will County, Illinois”. This book detailed the animals of Mazon Creek and…
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Mazon Monday #164: The Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna – Book Review
This is Mazon Monday post #164. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Jack Wittry is a long time ESCONI member, who has written three books on the fossils of Mazon Creek “The Mazon Creek Fossil Flora” in 2006, “The Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna” in 2012, and “A Comprehensive Guide to the…
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Mazon Monday #149: Pennsylvanian Flora of Northern Illinois
This is Mazon Monday post #149. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Dr. Adolf Carl Noé (1873-1939) was a pioneer in North American coal-ball studies. Noé worked at the University of Chicago. And, was contacted by George Langford when he began seriously collecting Mazon Creek in the 1930’s. At the time,…
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How little, furry mammals that scurried under dinosaurs’ feet came to rule the world
“The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us” explores the wild mammal lineage from the Triassic period to present day. (Image credit: Mariner Books, Courtesy Steve Brusatte) Live Science has a new book review… “The Rise and Reign of the Mammals”. Looking for some summer reading…
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Mazon Monday #111: Leaves and Stems with a George Langford Inscription
This is Mazon Monday post #111. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Back in Mazon Monday #51, we looked at the book “Leaves and Stems” by Raymond E. Janssen. From the time it was published in 1939 by the Illinois State Museum until George Langford’s first book was published by Esconi…
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New Book: “Origin, A Genetic History of the Americas” by Jennifer Raff
Back in December 2020, Dr. Jennifer Raff of the University of Kansas spoke to in our General Meeting. Her program was titled “What Genetics Tells Us About the Peopling of the Americas”. It was an interesting look into what genetics can tell us about the settlement of North America. Now, she has a new book out,…
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Mazon Monday #107: Book Inscription in Nitecki’s “Mazon Creek Fossils”
This is Mazon Monday post #107. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Back in Mazon Monday #18, we posted some interesting book inscriptions from the Langford Mazon Creek books. The highlights were Bill Allaway’s book owned by Dave Carlson and John McLuckie’s book owned by Jack Wittry. This week, I received…
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Mazon Monday #98: Natural History of Coal Age Fossils
This is Mazon Monday post #98. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. George Langford’s second book, “The Wilmington Coal Fauna and Additions to the Wilmington Coal Flora from a Pennsylvanian Deposit in Will County, Illinois”, was published by Esconi Associates in 1963. As part of the publication of the book, Stella…
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Mazon Monday #97: “Historical Perspective on Early Twentieth Century Carboniferous Paleobotany in North American”
This is Mazon Monday post #97. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The book “Historical Perspective on Early Twentieth Century Carboniferous Paleobotany in North American” was published in 1995 by the Geological Society of America (GSA). It’s dedicated as a memorial volume for William Culp Darrah (1909-1989), who was a pioneer…
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Mazon Monday #96: Pennsylvanian Plant Fossils of Illinois
This is Mazon Monday post #96. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The book “Pennsylvanian Plant Fossils of Illinois” was #6 in the Educational Series published by the Illinois State Geological Survey in 1960. It was written by Charles Collinson (1923 – 2011) and Romayne Skartvedt. The book can be purchased…
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Roy Plotnick: I found a fossil!! (or did I?)
Roy Plotnick has a new post over on Medium. In this one, he gives some great tips for those occasions when you’re out on a walk and find a rock and hope it’s a fossil. You are walking along a creek bed when you see an oddly shaped and colored rock. You pick it up…
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New Book: “Collector’s Guide to Fort Payne Crinoids and Blastoids”
ESCONI member William Morgan, a retired professor from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has a new book called “Collector’s Guide to Fort Payne Crinoids and Blastoids”. The Fort Payne Formation of Kentucky dates to the early Mississippian Period. The focus of this book is on the Fort Payne Formation and…
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Mazon Monday #80: Book “Coal Age Fossils From Mazon Creek”
This is Mazon Monday post #80. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The book “Coal Age Fossils From Mazon Creek” was published in 1979 by the Illinois State Museum. The ISM has a long history publishing science books. This one is volume III of the scientific papers series. It is a…
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Mazon Monday #74: Langford Book 3
This is Mazon Monday post #74. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. We recently ran across an interesting article in the July/August 1996 edition of the ESCONI newsletter that details the story of the donation of the original notebook manuscripts of the two original Langford books and the unpublished book three. …
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Mazon Monday #51: Book – Leaves and Stems From Fossil Forests
This is Mazon Monday post #51. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Before George Langford wrote his books, which were first published by Esconi Associates in 1958, Raymond E. Janssen wrote two books about Mazon Creek that saw widespread use as reference materiel for identification of fossils. The first book “Leaves…
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Mazon Monday #42: “Mazon Creek Fossils” by Matthew H. Nitecki
This is Mazon Monday post #42. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Another Mazon Creek book that belongs in the collection of any serious collector is “Mazon Creek Fossils” edited by Matthew Nitecki. It was first published in 1979, and is a collection of most of the papers presented at the…
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Mazon Monday #33: Creature Corner Newsletter Column and Book
This is Mazon Monday post #33. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Last week, we spoke about a couple books published by ESCONI in the 1980’s – “Keys To Identify Pennsylvanian Fossil Plants of the Mazon Creek Area” in 1986 (updated in 1990) and “Keys To Identify Pennsylvanian Fossil Animals of…
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Mazon Monday #32: ESCONI books – Keys to Identify Pennsylvanian Fossil Plants and Animals
This is Mazon Monday post #32. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. ESCONI has made numerous contributions to the science of Mazon Creek fossils over the years. Everyone knows about the George Langford books published in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Jack Wittry wrote new books that included much of…
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Roy Plotnick: Epigraphs of taphonomy (or prolegomenon to a future book)
Roy Plotnick has another interesting blog post over on Medium. In this post, he discusses some future plans for a possible book. Make sure you follow him on Medium. He doesn’t post very often, but all his articles are worth reading! When I first thought of writing a popular science book, one option I considered…
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Roy Plotnick: I am not Indiana Jones or why I am writing a book (it’s not for the money)
Roy Plotnick has an insightful blog post over on Medium. He discusses perceptions of paleontologists and Paleontology in general – who they are, what they do, and why it’s important. Check it out! If you’ve read any of his previous posts, you’ll know it’s a great read! The confusion with archaeologists is of somewhat understandable;…
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Book Review – Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
The Inquisitive Biologist has an interesting (and complete!) book review of “Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World” by George R McGhee, Jr. It caused me to run out (ok, click) and buy the ebook. So far, it’s very good. The ebook is available at all the usual book sites, Amazon,…
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The Nastiest Feud in Science
The Atlantic has an article about Gerta Keller and her differences with the consensus view on the causes of the K-Pg mass extinction. It’s a good read, but there are some errors. Gerta’s position is that the meteor strike was just a bit player in the whole event. There are many good books on either…
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Fossil News Magazine Returns!
Between 1998 and 2010, the little magazine, Fossil News: The Journal of Avocational Paleontology, was published monthly for a diverse and enthusiastic base of international subscribers, including amateur and paraprofessional fossil collectors, fossil preparators and dealers, and paleontologists and other scientists, many of whom also contributed articles, photographs, art work, and fossil tips to the magazine. After…
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A Paleo Reader: 22 Books for Fossil Lovers
Good story over on the NMNH blog. Many good books listed. Here’s just a few highlights: If you’ve got some time over the holidays (or the upcoming cold months), grab some good reading!
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New Book on Hell Creek Formation from GSA
From the Geological Society of America: Full Title: Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas Editors: Gregory P. Wilson, William A. Clemens, John R. Horner, and Joseph H. Hartman Description: For over a century, the Hell Creek and Fort Union formations and their constituent…
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Start Your Holiday Shopping Today!
You can buy the following items from ESCONI at a General Meeting or by completing and mailing the ESCONI Order Form. The Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna, by Jack Wittry (hard cover) $55.00The Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna, by Jack Wittry (soft cover) $30.00The Mazon Creek Fossil Flora, by Jack Wittry (hard cover) $45.00The Mazon Creek Fossil Flora,…
