Exploring & Preserving Maryland's Natural Treasures
Please note: This event listing is for informational purposes only. The registration link will only unlock Bob Ertman’s contact info so that you can get in touch with him. Bob says: “Signup needs to be by email directly with me because I need to be sure that everyone knows the ground rules and the limits […]
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Centralia, PA was a small coal mining community in central PA that had to be abandoned after the coal beds under it caught fire in the 1960s. Today nothing is left but the streets and sidewalks and some cemeteries. The surrounding area has several strip mines with numerous plant fossils. These are typical Llewelyn formation […]
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Located in Montross, VA (on the south side of the Potomac River, adjacent to Westmoreland State Park), Stratford Cliffs are part of the Calvert Formation, a rare geological phenomenon along the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. Among the most important fossil research sites in the Mid-Atlantic region, they were formed when land replaced an ancient […]
Cost: $30-40
Search for trilobites at this private quarry with volunteer leaders from our NHSM Fossil Club. The mostly shale rock from the Middle Devonian Mahantango Formation is home to a diverse set of prehistoric life including brachiopods, bryozoans, mollusks, corals, graptolites, and even cephalopods, squid-like animals with shells. Trilobites, the site’s main draw, originate from one […]
Cost: $5-25
Located in Montross, VA (on the south side of the Potomac River, adjacent to Westmoreland State Park), Stratford Cliffs are part of the Calvert Formation, a rare geological phenomenon along the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. Among the most important fossil research sites in the Mid-Atlantic region, they were formed when land replaced an ancient […]
Cost: $30
Join the dino hunt! It’s a morning of fossil hunting right here in Maryland where dinosaurs roamed 115 million years ago. This period in the Early Cretaceous is so long ago, that it was approximately 50 million years before Tyrannosaurus rex evolved. Dinosaur Park is also home to Astrodon Johnstoni, the Maryland State dinosaur, and […]
Cost: $0-20