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Garson Tyndall stone quarries

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: large cephalopods, corals, gastropods, receptaculitids in cut stone.

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

Why this spot

Ordovician mottled limestone quarried since 1895, packed with receptaculitids, cephalopods and corals

Tyndall stone fossils are documented in Manitoba geology and museum literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

active quarry operations

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