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6/7/16

45 million year shell cemetery


75 million year shell cemetery is located at Ban Laem Pho. About 17 km from Krabi Town.Using the same route as the way to Nopparat Thara Beach.At the Ban Sai Thailand There will be signs to shell cemetery.Shell Cemetery is one of the world next to the sea.

 
Peaceful surroundings Nine countries have sala scenic sea Krabi. Around 45 million years Shell Cemetery Shell Cemetery.
The important part is the west coast. A length of about one kilometer wide and 50 meters as well as a solid sheet shells at the island, a stone with alternating layers of lignite.
Thick layers each about 10 inches from the outer shell cemetery this area there are also examples of fossilized shells of three and a visitor center provided information.
Visitors to the cemetery, but the shell of this once swampy, freshwater mussels live large with a lot of Periwinkle by approximately 2 cm in size.
Later changes in the Earth's surface. Flood waters flowing into the pond completely. That makes a handsome limestone sea shells underwater until homogeneous.
A solid slab called Shelly Limestone thickness of about 40 cm when the area was raised up. These fossils are so visible is the large stone courtyard.
Extends into the sea for tens of millions of years old shell cemetery, only three of the world is the United States. (North Chicago), Japan and Thailand.

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