At Rockport State Recreation Area, visitors can explore a fossil filled quarry and look for ancient remains that date back more than 400 million years.

The Quarry Trail (Q1, Q2) takes visitors through the bottom of the abandoned quarry. The rock walls surrounding the quarry bottom are composed of limestone. Limestone consists mainly of calcium ...

When Ashby Gale, the owner of Charleston Fossil Adventures, found a teardrop-shaped oyster shell encrusted in concrete-like limestone on South Carolina’s Folly Beach in 2015, he knew it was special.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Hundreds of millions of years ago, much of South Central Kentucky sat below a warm, shallow sea. According to fossil experts, the fossils locked inside the region’s ...

Idaho National Laboratory is perhaps best known for innovative research that helps shape the clean energy economies of today and tomorrow—and for good reason. But while much of the laboratory's work ...

Menu Local Geology History, Resources, and Facilities Geologic History of Southwestern Ohio At the Limper Geology Museum, you will be able to explore a large collection of local rock, mineral, and ...

Like most people, you have very likely heard the word limestone. We use the word frequently in Windows Through Time. But do you really know what a limestone is? If you saw one, could you identify it?