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Cannonball concretions, Grant County

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: cannonball concretions, sandstone spheres.

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

Why this spot

Huge spherical sandstone concretions weathering from Paleocene bluffs along the Cannonball drainage

The cannonball concretions are a documented North Dakota curiosity.

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