What fine fossil. We have the lots of fossil shark's teeth in the area from when the east coast was a shallow sea. All the parking lots are covered with gravel from local quarries that are chocked full of them (and the occasional marine mammal vertebrae).
When we were in Florida, I was fascinated by the sand and gravel made of marine mammal shells; it was a nifty and very different experience to have all the gravel paths carpeted with bits of shell.
I've finally been finding fossils this year. Apparently there are quite a lot in the stream next to where I live. Well, not fossils exactly. It's casts of the objects (mostly shells). Not sure if the shells disintegrated or turned into fossils and fell out.
I adore fossil hunting! I've found some cool fossils at Healy too; I don't know if a trip that far up the highway would be in the cards for us this time, but someday we ought to go there. (There's an abandoned coal mine that has a ton of fossils in the shale, or at least it used to - I guess I'm assuming that the land hasn't been sold and closed off or anything; it was ten or twelve years ago when I was last there.)
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When we were in Florida, I was fascinated by the sand and gravel made of marine mammal shells; it was a nifty and very different experience to have all the gravel paths carpeted with bits of shell.
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I've finally been finding fossils this year. Apparently there are quite a lot in the stream next to where I live. Well, not fossils exactly. It's casts of the objects (mostly shells). Not sure if the shells disintegrated or turned into fossils and fell out.
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