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Alaska
Fairbanks placer cuts, Gold Hill and Engineer Creek muck
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: mammoth, mastodon, steppe bison, horse, musk ox.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Pleistocene
Placer mining around Fairbanks exposed Gold Hill Loess and muck that yielded hundreds of thousands of vertebrate fossils, especially from hydraulic cuts on Engineer Creek.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
unstable frozen highwallsMining equipment, deep mud
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