Clarksville IN: Falls of the Ohio fossil beds

Where: Midwest · North America · approx. 38.28, -85.77 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: 220 acres of exposed Devonian coral-reef bedrock in the Ohio River, among the largest exposed fossil beds on Earth

What turns up: eyes-only: horn and colonial corals, stromatoporoids, brachiopods in bedrock; keepable finds only from the designated collecting piles

Access: Restricted.

Eyes-only on the fossil beds and riverbank, removal prohibited; the sanctioned exception is the stocked collecting piles behind the interpretive center, parking $2, center admission $9 adult

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.