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Midwest, Indiana
Clarksville IN
Falls of the Ohio fossil beds
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: eyes-only: horn and colonial corals, stromatoporoids, brachiopods in bedrock; keepable finds only from the designated collecting piles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: 220 acres of exposed Devonian coral-reef bedrock in the Ohio River, among the largest exposed fossil beds on Earth
World-famous documented beds; Indiana DNR states collecting from the beds is prohibited, with designated quarry-rock collecting piles at the interpretive center
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Slick algae-covered rockSudden dam releases raise the river, summer heat off bare stone
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