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A field trip to the Caesar Creek State Park emergency spillway in Warren County, Ohio. Bedrock is from the Ordovician Geologic Period. Ordovician rocks exposed in southwestern Ohio are well known for the abundance, variety, and excellent preservation of fossils they contain. The limestones and shales are excellent for collecting fossils including brachiopods, bryozoans, gastropods, and trilobites. The image was made after a teachers workshop field trip probably in 1993.
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This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Limestone outcrop filled with fossils; people in the foreground. Caesar Creek State Park in Warren County, Ohio.