Susan Hoi or Fossils Shell Beach
Susan Hoi features a slab formed from a huge number of embedded various
types of mollusks which can be dated to approximately 40 million years
ago. This shell graveyard at Ban Laem Pho was once a large freshwater
swamp, the habitat of diverse mollusks. With changes on the surface
of the earth, seawater flooded the freshwater swamp and the limestone
elements in the seawater enveloped the submerged mollusks resulting
in a homogenous layer of fossilized mollusk shells forty centimeters
thick known as Shelley Limestone. With geographical upheavals, the
limestone layer is now distributed in great broken sheets of impressive
magnitude on the seashore. The site is located 17 kilometers from
the town.
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