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Baculite Mesa

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: baculites, scaphites, concretion clams.

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

Why this spot

Pierre Shale mesa northeast of Pueblo collected for over a century

Famous baculite locality in collector and survey literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

heat, rattlesnakes

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