twenty-mile creek

Looking for fossil sharks teeth in Twenty-Mile Creek near Frankstown, Mississippi. This creek is scattered with huge boulders [like the one I'm sitting on]. They're not boulders in the traditional sense though. They are 75-million-year-old concretions. Beneath these boulders is where the sharks' teeth tend to gather. To get to them you have to dig shovel loads of creek bottom out and sift it through a wire mesh to separate the sediment from the teeth and other fossils.

My wife and I woke up Saturday morning wanting to go on a field trip, so we loaded the truck with digging and collecting equipment, gallons of water, water shoes, a change of clothes for each of us and hit the road for a nice little 1.5 hour trip to Frankstown. I hoped we would be the only ones there, but alas when we arrived there were perhaps 20 other people there already. We worked our way upstream a few hundred feet and settled in for a few hours of collecting. My wife is much more productive at fossil collecting than I am, but we both did quite well Saturday. We came home with a number of sharks teeth, petrified wood, fossilized worm borings and several other fossils.
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Song 591: So Into You
Artist: Atlanta Rhythm Section
Album: A Roll and Roll Alternative
Year: 1977
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