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Foot long Oyster shells, huh. I just wonder how big the saltine crackers were back then?...Geo

Those shells are at Blue Bluff, or at least that's what it is called around here. It's not far up River from the pump intake station at the nuclear power plant, Plant Vogtle. I ride up the river in my boat from Stoney Bluff Landing, which is only a little over a mile from my house, to there occasionally, just to look around.

SRH

Down river from Stan near my end of the river, dredging spoils from the Savannah River are a source for treasure hunting Carachodon megaladon's fossilized teeth the size of a man's hand. Megaladon--"big tooth"..are the ancestors of the great white shark. Gil

When I was a boy there was a spring that flowed out of the side of a hill on a farm near me, and near the Savannah River. It literally flowed out of a hole in the side of a little bluff. We would wade into the stream, dip our hands into the sand on the bottom, and sift out shark's teeth with our fingers. They were there every time I ever went. I went back a few years ago and the new owner has fenced it all in and let a herd of cows use the spring to drink, and they have destroyed the place.

When they were excavating the site for the first two reactors and ancillary structures at Plant Vogtle they unearthed an entire whale skeleton. It now resides in a museum at Ga. Southern University, in Statesboro.

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/science-medicine/georgiacetus-vogtlensis

SRH

Very enjoyable, thanks for posting that! The micro-fossil discussion was an education, and will have to look at some of my shales (Devonian) under a microscope. The driveway is shale gravel and full of decent shellfish fossils...betting there's small ones too.
I really wallow in our local geologic history (yankee end of the Appalachians, the Helderberg Escarpment north of the Catskills) from the unusual mountain building method creating the Appalachians to the recent mile of ice that sat on top of us.