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Netherlands, Limburg

't Rooth Quarry (Bemelen), Netherlands

Fossil site Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

FossilsFossils
Flint and stone toolsFlint and stone tools

Also reported: bivalves.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), James St. John (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: Cretaceous chalk fossils

Documented Limburg chalk/marl quarry yielding echinoids, bivalves and flint fossils.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Chalk faces

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