Travel Bug Dog Tag Austin Chalk

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Owner:
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Released:
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Origin:
United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of sgray751.

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Current Goal

This travel bug wants to go to a geocache near Trondheim, Norway to visit a friend of ours. Then, this travel bug would like to go to as many parts of Europe as possible before coming back to the United States and dropped of in a geocache in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

About This Item

This travel bug is a piece of the Austin Chalk from North Texas. It actually contains some ammonite (nautilus-like fossil) and gryphaea (oyster-type fossil) fragments. Our friend in Norway is a geologist who my wife and I worked with when we were working geologists. An outcrop of the Austin Chalk at Lake Texoma was one of the first places we visited when we all met back in the early 80's working for an oilfield service company in Dallas, Texas.

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Tracking History (39912.5mi) View Map

Discovered It 8/18/2006 Rock-6 discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered this one. Nice TB. Rock-6
Dropped Off 8/18/2006 kjom placed it in Løberghaugen, Skien # 29 Vestfold og Telemark, Norway - 6.84 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/18/2006 kjom retrieved it from Moholt Jernverk, Siljan # 68 Vestfold og Telemark, Norway   Visit Log

Tar deg videre med en gang.
Dropped Off 8/18/2006 kjom placed it in Moholt Jernverk, Siljan # 68 Vestfold og Telemark, Norway - 288.05 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/16/2006 kjom retrieved it from Rainbow's End Møre og Romsdal, Norway   Visit Log

We take you to the next cache.
Dropped Off 7/30/2006 leith301 placed it in Rainbow's End Møre og Romsdal, Norway - 73.82 miles  Visit Log
Write note 9/3/2005 Rock Hounds 5 posted a note for it   Visit Log

We are very thankful to all who helped get Austin to his destination. This was really cool to watch as Austin travelled from North America to Europe. We will launch another TB soon on a similar mission. Thanks again to all who helped Austin along.
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/3/2005 leith301 retrieved it from National Field Day 2005 -PRE EVENT!! Trøndelag, Norway   Visit Log

Nice to see that Austin Chalk made it to Trondheim and was able to say hello to its ammonite relative.

  • Austin Chalk sees the sights in Trondheim
Dropped Off 9/3/2005 la7tma placed it in National Field Day 2005 -PRE EVENT!! Trøndelag, Norway - 17.05 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/2/2005 la7tma retrieved it from Go to Hell Trøndelag, Norway   Visit Log

grabbit from hell.
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