Red Lion -Delaware C.A.C.H.E.-Hundred Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 1/29/2007
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

  The Delaware C.A.C.H.E.
This geocache is a part of the Delaware Cache around the colonial hundreds event

This is one of my favorite places along the canal. I bring my kids here often and we search for fossils. As you make the .2 hike to the cache site please look down as you walk and take your time, there are fossils on the surface of the dirt you are walking on !!!!


Best time to find fossils is after a heavy rain as it seems to bring the fossils to the surface, and I prefer Sundays as it seems to not have as many people around. If you are lucky enough and find some fossils, please take pictures and only take one or two of the fossils; leave others for the next cachers to discover. I also found out today that this area is being turned into a large parking lot, figures they would make a great historic fossil spoils site a parking lot !!! The cache is not hidden in the construction area; please use stealth if workers are in the area. Suggested parking is 39.33.593/075.34.773 DO NOT BLOCK THE GATE !!!!


I have included some information below about the Delaware State Fossil, thanks to the Delaware Geologic Survey. More information can be obtained via internet search and their web site. Fossils of Delaware

Delaware State Fossil, The Belemnite
Belemnite is the common name applied to an extinct order (Belemnoida) of mollusks belonging to the cephalopod class. Modern cephalopods include the squid, octopus, and pearly Nautilus. The belemnoid animal was most closely related to the squid as it had an internal shell covered by a leathery skin, tentacles that pointed forward, and a siphon that expelled water forward thus moving the animal backward by jet propulsion. The internal shell of the belemnoid was cone-shaped and divided into chambers that were gas-filled for maintaining buoyancy in the sea. The chambered shell had a blade-like forward extension that is seldom preserved as a fossil. The most common fossilized part of the internal shell is called the "guard" or "cigar" consisting of a massive, generally brown-colored, subcylindrical structure called the rostrum that encloses the chambered shell and extends to the rear where it tapers to a conical apex. The rostrum served as a counter-weight to the buoyancy provided by the chambered shell and also for protection of that delicate shell. Belemnoids reached their greatest abundance and diversity during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. After Moore, Lalicker, and Fisher, 1952, Invertebrate Fossils: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company. Belemnites have been found abundantly in the exposures of the Mount Laurel Formation along the banks of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in Delaware, east of St. Georges. The fine-grained sands and silts of the Mount Laurel were deposited in a shallow sea during the Late Cretaceous time around 70 million years ago. The fossil belemnite species found here is Belemnitella americana. Sometimes, almost complete belemnite guards can be found, similar in size and shape to a pencil, pointed at one end, but flaring at the other end (if preserved) and partly hollow in the center where the chambered shell was located. Often, only rod-like broken sections of the brown rostrum are found. On July 2, 1996, belemnite was named as the official fossil of Delaware. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School (Wilmington) third grade Quest students of Kathy Tidball suggested honoring the ancient and noble belemnite as our State fossil. In Delaware, the best place to look for Belemnitella americana is in the dredge spoil piles on the north side of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, just west of St. Georges and also just east of the north side of the Reedy Point Bridge.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ivarl Uvqr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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