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Camet Norte cliffs, north Mar del Plata

Fossil site, tidal Source-confirmed findsProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: large herbivores, carnivores, rodents from a paleolake deposit.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Late Pleistocene

A Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina review describes a roughly 24,600 year old paleolake in the northern cliffs at Camet Norte with abundant well preserved vertebrate remains.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

cliff collapse, waves

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