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Location – About one mile east of Leadwood on Highway 8.
In the cut made during the construction of Highway 8 between Leadwood and Flat
River [now known as Park Hills], Missouri, can be seen fossilized colonies of algae that
formed algal heads, specimens of a form of life that existed on the floor of the ocean the
covered the area 500 million years ago. The
sea, salt water a only about four or five feet deep then, had a mid bottom in which the
algal heads lived. They were trapped in the
mud and later fossilized to produce the formation that looks like a “mushroom without
a stem”. One 800 lb. Specimen is on
display at the Missouri Division of Geology and Land Survey at
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