"Fossils of the Crescent Valley Mine: A New Window on the
Coal Age in Alabama"
By Ron Buta, emeritus professor of astronomy and
astrophysics, University of Alabama
Abstract: The Crescent Valley Mine is a defunct surface coal
mine located in north-central
Alabama that was found by the author to be rich
in Pennsylvanian period trace and plant fossils in 2011. In 2022, after
11 years of collecting, I began studying these fossils and in my presentation I
will describe what I found and what it is like to systematically collect fossils
from a given trace fossil site.
Anthony Piazza
Program Chairman