Posted: Mar 05, 2010 5:54 pm
The spoils piles from the dredging of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal are in state parkland near my home, so we make an occasional family trip to sift through the sand and look for objects of interest. The item I'm most anxious to identify is this:
(It's been suggested this might not be a fossil but rather a curious brown calcite formation.)
We find a lot of belemnites there:
A fair number of clam/oysterlike shells, though not often as whole and solid as this one:
The prize of our collection is this fossilized ammonite, which reflects light with a prismatic effect which isn't readily apparent in the photo:
(It's been suggested this might not be a fossil but rather a curious brown calcite formation.)
We find a lot of belemnites there:
A fair number of clam/oysterlike shells, though not often as whole and solid as this one:
The prize of our collection is this fossilized ammonite, which reflects light with a prismatic effect which isn't readily apparent in the photo: