Fossil
Shell Beach (Susan Hoi)
Susan Hoi features a slab formed from a huge number
of embedded various types of mollusks which can be dated to approximately
40 million years ago. This shell graveyard at Ban Laem Pho was once
a large freshwater swamp, the habitat of diverse mollusks. With changes
on the surface of the earth, seawater flooded the freshwater swamp
and the limestone elements in the seawater enveloped the submerged
mollusks resulting in a homogenous layer of fossilized mollusk shells
forty centimeters thick known as Shelley Limestone. With geographical
upheavals, the limestone layer is now distributed in great broken
sheets of impressive magnitude on the seashore. The site is located
17 kilometers from the town.
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