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I had this question posted in another thread but didn't get much action so another member suggested I post it here so here goes. I have been hunting this spot I found years ago for 6 or 8 months now and I have been finding some things that I never had any idea you could find in a spot so far away from the closest river. That river is the James River here in Virginia. There were a lot of Indians that lived in this area and pretty much any place you can find a lot of loose rocks laying around you can bet there may be arrow heads and other tools these people depended on for survival. A lot of the spots we were hunting have been bought up by the Government and we no longer have access to so I was thinking of new places to hunt. Sitting back one day drinking a cold Bud Lite and racking my brain for spots to try I remembered this place and decided to give it a try. Searching this small creek bed I found several arrow heads, some tools such as scrapers, knives, and even a stone ax head. I really thought I was on to something until I came upon a part of the creek where the creek bed was littered with hundreds of shells, pieces of coral and other things that just seemed out of place. Soon I became so fascinated by all this that arrow heads were way on the back burner of things to do and since then my life has not been the same. I knew I had to get to the bottom of this or die trying. I have posted pictures of some of the things that I have dragged off those hills here on this site and as I posted in one of those threads The more I find out the more confused I get. This hill/cliff is around 120 feet or so tall from the bottom to the top and there are different shell layers pretty much all over. I found one spot about 5 feet from where it flattens out on top where the soil is, loose fine sand and has thousands of broken pieces of all kinds of shell and other organic material. I have found this same type of layer also 50' lower down the side of the cliff. I don't have any pics of the upper layers but I posted some pics of where these small creeks, that flow out of the sides of the cliff have cut into layer after layer of different type material. I assume that the deeper layers are the oldest. But what about the shell bearing layer all the way on top? How do you date something like this without heading off to some lab with samples from each layer? The formation is listed as The Chesapeake Group which may include the following formations-Chowan River, Yorktown, Eastover, St.Marys, Choptank and Calvert. Time:Upper Pliocene to lower Miocene. What I want to know when looking at the different layers cut out by these creeks is there any way to tell what they are or how old? This is the question as I presented it in my other thread : "Could someone look at these pics and give me a general idea of what these different layers are. The top layer is grey softer clay like material. Then the shell bearing layer a little harder more compact looking but still rather soft. The third layer is a blue grey sand/clay material that is a bit harder but still not like stone. There is a layer under the last one that is compacted sand, small pebbles and some iron looking material that is quite hard. In some places this layer is quite thick several feet, but in other places it's only a four or five inches thick. I assume these layers are all different time periods but I'm not really sure about that. There is another layer on top of these that is light, fine, brown looking sand and pea gravel material that is several feet thick and is the layer that is holding a lot of the shark teeth I have been finding. I have found small shark teeth and other teeth in most all these layers just sticking out the sides. It just seems strange that the larger teeth are in the higher up layers."
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