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Clipping of the newspaper article "MSU Reacts to King's Death" published in Mississippi State University's student newspaper The Reflector. The article describes the vigil and memorial service that took place on campus at Mississippi State University…

Clipping of the newspaper article titled "Unrest Hovers Over Campus Sunday Night" written by Merrill Merkle and published in Mississippi State University's student newspaper The Reflector. The article reports on damage that occurred on campus during…

Approximate placement of shorelines from the Cretaceous through the Pleistocene, showing the Mississippi Embayment.

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(DSM #SD13) Septarian concretions form in cavities where the outer rock is cracked and angular. Minerals fill the cracks and preserve their shape.

(DSM #SD11 and #SD12) Concretions come in all sizes and are very often mistaken for fossils because of their intricate and strange shapes. They form when a grain of sediment or organism acts as a nucleus for minerals to precipitate and grow. Some…

(DSM #SD8) Geodes are crystals that form to fill a void. The outer portion of the stone is usually non-descript and plain but the crystals show themselves when the rock is hit with a hammer.

(DSM #SD7) Dendrites are iron or manganese oxide mineral growths that occur in a rock after deposition.

(DSM #M76 and #M172) These interal casts show the shape of the inside of a cavity such as a shell or brain. When you have an imprint of the outside of an organism it is calleda mold.