Would you have better luck elsewhere in Rhode Island? (I can't even suggest Maine in this case; the Casco Bay area, which is what I grew up familiar with, doesn't turn up fossils at all. I remember being very disappointed by this.)
Rhode Island just isn't a place to find fossils. Most of the rock is igneous and metamorphic. There are a few exposures with trilobites, and some Carboniferous-aged plant fossils here and there. But nothing much to get excited about. Connecticut and western Massachusetts have some decent stuff. I was spoiled by the grand fossil fields of the southeast.
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Date: 2009-07-28 10:55 pm (UTC)Would you have better luck elsewhere in Rhode Island? (I can't even suggest Maine in this case; the Casco Bay area, which is what I grew up familiar with, doesn't turn up fossils at all. I remember being very disappointed by this.)
Rhode Island just isn't a place to find fossils. Most of the rock is igneous and metamorphic. There are a few exposures with trilobites, and some Carboniferous-aged plant fossils here and there. But nothing much to get excited about. Connecticut and western Massachusetts have some decent stuff. I was spoiled by the grand fossil fields of the southeast.