A beautiful Saturday in June -- sunny, not a cloud in the sky -- and nothing
scheduled -- what could be nicer than going sailing . . . What? You don't have a sailboat?
How about yard-sailing! That's what Marash Girl did yesterday, and the excursion brought her to within a mile of the house where she grew up . . .
At that yard sale, Marash Girl spied three rocks . . . they looked like heart rocks, but not quite. . . "What are those?" Marash Girl asked the 'proprietress' of the yard sale. "Oh, those are clam fossils," she answered. "Where do they come from?" MG asked. "They're from a beach in Maryland." "Really?" Marash Girl exclaimed; "many years ago, I gathered fossils of shark's teeth on a beach in Maryland at the base of a cliff." "That's exactly where I found these . . . while I was hunting for shark's teeth at the base of a cliff on a beach in Maryland. I used to live in Maryland and we went hunting for shark's teeth all the time! I have a bottle full of shark's teeth inside. They're not for sale, but these clam fossils are. . . "
Marash Girl checked with Matt (a native of Maryland who, by the way, found an Indian arrowhead when he was visiting Wilbraham after the tornado) and learned that the place that both the proprietress of the yard sale and Marash Girl had gone fossil hunting was probably Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, which is where the clam shell fossils you see below were found.
Clam shell fossils from Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, in their new home, snuggled in a flower pot
with a baby plant on Marash Girl's front porch. Photo by Marash Girl
with a baby plant on Marash Girl's front porch. Photo by Marash Girl
Venice beach, just a few miles south of Sarasota, Fl, is known for its shark's teeth. They are everywhere. Clam shell fossils? Never heard of them. Great find. Now, if we can only find a cave filled with arrowheads.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking about great finds, have you heard of gobekli tepe? Discovered by a Kurdish shepherd @20years ago, it carbon dates back to @11,000 years B.C. They are stone megaliths, oblong shaped and carved with stylized images of boars and birds, carnivores and sinuous snakes. It is, by many thousands of years, older than any other sites on earth. It is also 32 miles from the Marash Airport and perhaps in the proximity of Eden.
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