Category: Collecting Trips

NCFC sponsored fossil collecting trips.

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...

Holden Beach – Spring 2024

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...

Quarry Collecting Trip – April 26

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...

Holden Beach Nov 2023

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,...

Holden Beach February 2023

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,...

Greens Mill Run April 2018

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...

Greens Mill Run October 2017

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...

Old Dock May 2016

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 10-2015

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...

Belgrade October 2015

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...

Castle Hayne April 2015

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...

Rucks Pit – Florida 1-2015

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...

SMR Quarry – Florida 1-2015

It’s cold, it’s snowing and I’m 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...

Onslow 11-2014

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...

Castle Hayne 11-2014

During the fall, David Sanderson led two collecting trips to Martin Marietta’s Castle Hayne quarry.  The first was October 3rd and the second one was on took place on November 7th. Between the two...

Aurora Cookout November 2014

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.  AFM’s Museum Educator, George Oliver, Jr., M.D., and...

Hanson 10-2014

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,...

Belgrade 10-2014

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...

Oklahoma 10-2014

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...

Hanson 9-2014

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...

Belgrade 6-2014

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...

Aurora Cook Out June 2014

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...