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Whitewater River Ordovician beds, Richmond

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

FossilsFossils

Also reported: brachiopods, bryozoans, horn corals.

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

Why this spot

Richest Ordovician shell beds of the Cincinnati Arch exposed along the Whitewater gorge

Classic collecting stretch in Indiana geological literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

crumbly banks

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