Coldwater Quarry
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Lafarge Quarry  ~   Waubaushene, Ontario


 

The Quarry

Side of quarry after blast.
Notice "blocky" nature of blasted rocks.
Fossil imbedded in dolomitic limestone, a sedimentary rock.
Most fossils from this quarry are coated in green. The green color is the mineral Glauconite.

The Fossils ~ from the Middle Ordovician Era

Cephalopod Nautiloid    ~ Endoceras   

       

 

Cephalopod Nautiloid    ~ Dawsonoceras   

 

 

Pelecypod

 

Gastropod

 

Trilobite Isotelus

  

 

Worm Tube?

   

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