Exploring & Preserving Maryland's Natural Treasures
NHSM Fossil Club members are once again invited to Centralia, PA, to hunt for plant fossils. Centralia was a small coal mining community in central PA that had to be abandoned after the coal beds under it caught fire in the 1960s. Today nothing is left but the streets and sidewalks and some cemeteries. The […]
Cost: $0
Fossil Club members are invited once again to participate in this ever-popular NHSM event! Among the most important fossil research sites in the Mid-Atlantic region, Stratford Cliffs were formed when land replaced an ancient sea. Fossils found here are from the Miocene Epoch, approximately 17 to 10 million years ago, and indicate an ancient sea […]
Cost: $30