Posted by NCWayne on June 22, 2012 at 23:07:38 from (69.40.232.132):
In Reply to: Re: In field find posted by Wesley Stephens on June 22, 2012 at 20:27:39:
Martin Marietta has a quarry in Fountain where they find the same kinds of things. I was working for a customer who was doing some drilling for them some years back where the majority of the overburden had been removed already. I looked around every chance I got, looking to find some fossile shark teeth, or something, but had no luck at all.
Also did alot of work for Hanson Aggrigates at their pit outside of Dunn up until a few years ago when they got themselves a new crane. Never found anything myself, in and around their pits, but a couple of arrowheads on the ground where they had recently cleared the brush away. Over the years the guys that worked there have found numerous pieces of petrified wood, some pieces were really large, at depths down around 45 feet or so. Around that region, from what we were told, they have sand on top, then a layer of blue mud a few feet thick, and then even more sand. Unfortunately they say it's not currently economical to get the sand out below the mud layer. With what they find on top of it I'd love to see what they might find down even a few more feet below the mud.....
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