Beach fossil mollusks Susaan Hoy
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Also called Susaan Hoi beach fossil mollusks in Krabi is one of three rare places of the planet, the likes of which no longer find. Only in Japan and the US, there are more modest but equally interesting and ancient cluster pressed sets of mollusk shells.

Age of unique finds in Susaan Hoy has more than 40 million years. According to studies, once the beach area was a freshwater marshes that dried up a long time and has become a land of about 200 000 years ago. Gradually there was formed a layer of limestone formations thickness of 40 cm. As a result, movement of tectonic plates, he was split into individual plates. These huge reservoirs of fossil pressed from afar look like cement blocks.

On the beach of fossil mollusks are three main points where you can touch the ancient history of our planet. The first is located in the east of the tourist center, this area is the rocky coastline is especially visible at low tide. Fossil layer up here gastropods size of 1-2 cm. The second point is located at the tourist center. Here you will see a thick layer of limestone in 1-2m. The third point can be visited only during low tide, fossil compacted layer up here gastropods and bivalves in size from 1 to 5 cm.

Finds like the discovery of fossils of shellfish beach are extremely valuable not only for the study of the history and development of the Earth, but also for global forecasting its future.

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