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Fort Fisher and Carolina Beach strand

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

FossilsFossils
Shark teethShark teeth

Also reported: coquina.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Why this spot

Cape Fear beaches where storms and renourishment expose fossil-rich coquina lag

Regularly cited in Carolina fossil-tooth write-ups.

Keep exploring nearby

More spots in this area.

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Modern Greece blockade runner, Fort Fisher1 km away · Wreck beach
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Brunswick Town NC: colonial waterfront, Fort Anderson9 km away · Tidal foreshore
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Southport NC: Old Yacht Basin waterfront11 km away · Tidal foreshore
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Cape Fear NC: Shark Tooth Island spoil18 km away · Tidal foreshore
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