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Fossil-Filled Limestone

340 million years ago, a warm shallow sea covered all of the American Southwest.

About a thousand feet below the rim of the canyonthe rock changes to limestones and it’s loaded with fossils. “I’ve got a little fossil coral in my hand. And it’s fossils like this that tells us that this whole landscape was once underwater.”

AIR DATE 10/21/15

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