Old Dock – Spring 2024
There have been 2 recent trips to Old Dock, one on March 9th, with 4 members attending and another one on April 27th with 9 members in attendance. This is a Pleistocene, Waccamaw Formation...
NCFC sponsored fossil collecting trips.
There have been 2 recent trips to Old Dock, one on March 9th, with 4 members attending and another one on April 27th with 9 members in attendance. This is a Pleistocene, Waccamaw Formation...
There have been two recent trips to Holden Beach, 3 members attended on March 8th and 8 members on April 28th. The March trip was pretty cool and rain threatened, but for those who...
Our inaugural trip back into the quarries April 26th was a success. Our 20 members obeyed all the rules and the carpooling went smoother than anticipated. Along with the usual Eocene mollusks, several meg...
Field trips to Old Dock were held on November 8 and December 2nd, 2023. Six members attended the Nov 8 trip and 7 attended the Dec 2nd trip. The weather proved wonderful for both...
Field trips to Holden Beach were held on Nov 9th and Dec 3rd, 2023. Four members attended the Nov 9th trip and 7 attending the Dec 3rd trip. The Nov 9th trip was great,...
Linda led a trip to Old Dock in April 2023. Members of the club joined her for a day of collecting.
The trip to Holden Beach a beautiful day — warm (mostly) and sunny! Finds included echinoids (Harduinia mortonis), both whole and broken, as well as other interesting fossils like boring clams (lots of borings,...
Members of the NC Fossil Club took a trip to Startford Hall and the Maryland Eastern Shore including a stop at the Calvert Marine Museum
We could not have asked for better weather or a better group of people. Our group consisted of members who had been to GMR many times as well as some who were experiencing the...
Despite a chilly start to the morning we had a good turnout. After some debate among some of the group regarding waders we set off to the creek. As usual, some people immediately took...
We had a beautiful sunny warm day to collect ~2mya fossils from Old Dock, meeting first at the Master Mart on Rt. 130 and caravanning to the site. Libby Smalley expertly lead the trip...
Greens Mill Run Fossil Collecting Trip-October 17, 2005. The day started out quite cool and a couple of the planned participants ended up cancelling but those brave few that did show up at Greens...
Walking through the washed out area, a large triangular shape jumped into my sight. Picking it up, I was holding the largest tooth I had ever found at this quarry, a 3 ½ inch...
Following the Aurora Fossil Festival, several club members headed up to the Calvert Marine Museum to participate in the The Fossil Project’s Citizen Science Symposium.
I was pleased with the new area Martin Marietta provided us to hunt this year. The hunting area was rather small compared to years past but we had both Cretaceous (Peedee) and Eocene areas...
Day 3 found the 5 of us at the Fort Drum Crystal Mine (aka Rucks Pit), a farm field turned into a large collecting are where spoil piles of material are dumped from...
Day 2 of the trip found us in Arcadia, FL, teaming up with Mark Renz to do some screening in the Peace River. Andy and Yvonne had only come along for the Quarry ...
Its cold, its snowing and Im cooped up inside and want to go fossil hunting. The solution? Go to Florida, of course! And that is how a plan was hatched to go do some...
Deborah Young led a NC Fossil Club trip into Onslow Quarry on Saturday November 8, 2014. A last minute attempt was made to see if the club could hunt in this quarry, and the...
During the fall, David Sanderson led two collecting trips to Martin Mariettas Castle Hayne quarry. The first was October 3rd and the second one was on took place on November 7th. Between the two...
NC Fossil Club annual picnic, November 1st, 2014. The Aurora Fossil Museum kindly hosted our annual picnic, attended by 19 NCFC members plus two AFM staff. AFMs Museum Educator, George Oliver, Jr., M.D., and...
Thirteen plucky NC Fossil Club members turned out for a perfect fall day of collecting the Yorktown Formation at Hanson Quarry in Rocky Mount. We have only been coming to this locality since April,...
This was an awesome meeting for everyone! Such a delight to get all of us together and visit too! We could not have asked for a better weather day with a light breeze which...
Just a few hardy souls made the trek from North Carolina to Oklahoma in October for the 4 day hunt (Linda McCall, Lynn Moore, Diane Willis, Carl Willis and Earl Guertin making up the...
Seven crazy NC Fossil Club members showed up to hunt Hanson Quarry after it rained several inches the day before. The road in was a slippery, sloggy mess. We had to ditch all the...
Members of the NCFC met on June 27, 2014 at the Belgrade, Martin Marietta quarry in Maysville, NC. This was a much anticipated trip due to the fact that hunting fossils had been limited...
The June 15th Aurora Cook-Out (and Auction) was a big success. The new load of dirt delivered for the Aurora Fossil Festival a few weeks earlier had been mauled nicely and only needed...