- Jan 6, 2006
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- Detector(s) used
- Garrett AT Pro, Ace 250 & Ace 400
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Nice crinoid cast! For years I've obsessively checked the sorted landscaping gravel for fossils/minerals when I come across patches of it. Because it is usually glacially deposited material dug and sorted from sand/gravel pits it is nicely rounded and worn so the harder exposed fossilized structures really "pop" in a particularly attractive manner. I've found many spectacular coral specimens including perfectly intact and beautiful colonies, chain corals, rugose coral petoskey stones, trilobite casts, agates, geodes, and even a piece of a mammoth molar. I've also found pot pipes and once stumbled upon a patch of morel mushrooms growing in a small raised bed of gravel in the middle of a parking lot, lol. I love hunting gravely creeks but the washed and sorted gravel beds are extremely convenient and easy to search.