A Visit to Sharktooth Hill
By Andrew Alden, About.com Guide
My First Shark Tooth
Photo (c) 2012 Andrew Alden, licensed to About.com (fair use policy)
It was the work of a moment to free this pristine fossil from its matrix. The fine grains visible on my fingers are classified by their size as silt.
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- Visions of Megalodon: A Visit to Sharktooth Hill
- Sharktooth Hill Geologic Map
- Kern River Canyon Near Sharktooth Hill
- Sharktooth Hill: The Setting
- Buena Vista Museum
- Slow Curve Quarry on Sharktooth Hill
- Fossils Exposed by Rainwash
- First Shark Tooth of the Day
- My First Shark Tooth
- Concretions on Sharktooth Hill
- Vertebrae in a Concretion
- Hunting the Bonebed
- Sharktooth Hill Digging Tools
- The Bonebed
- Scapula Fossil
- Field Preservation of a Fossil
- End of the Day
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