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Chippokes State Park fossil beach

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

FossilsFossils

Also reported: giant scallops.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

James River beach strewn with Chesapecten below Yorktown bluffs

Well-known fossil shell beach in Virginia park literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

bluff slumps

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