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LeftInTX

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4. Quite crumbly for 460 million year old rock next to the Mississippi

Reply to riverwalker (Reply #1)

Wed May 22, 2013, 08:59 PM

May 2013

Poor kids. I bet they were enjoying themselves thoroughly. It truly was a treasure chest of fossils.

ETA: Reading article again, looks like it's an old quarry which I guess explained the crumbliness

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