
Needless to say, I picked the two halves up and brought them home. I don't think I'll ever skip rocks again because I fear I might be throwing away a fascinating treasure. I don't know anything about fossils or the organic creatures that became caught up in this rock, but I can now imagine learning about geology and archeology.
I’ve known from my days in school that fossils are the remains or traces of ancient life. Fossils can be mineralized bones, teeth, shells, wood, or actual unaltered material from an organism, like frozen mammoth flesh, bones and fur. One thing all fossils have in common, they are old, at least 10,000-years-old. It seems obvious that I have found some shells that were fossilized.
Now when I walk on the beach, I’ll be looking for similar ty

If you click on the opposite photo, it should be large enough to see the fossils clearly.
1 comment:
That is very cool there Gimme you will have to keep post of the rocks as you split them from now on.
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