Fossil revetment does not affect Krabi’s Shell Cemetery

KRABI, Sept 12 (TNA) -- Geologists have examined a new rock revetment which includes 299-million-year-old sea fossils next to the 75-million-year-old Shell Cemetery in Krabi province and initially do not find any negative impact. The rock revetment was built with dumped limestone including sea fossils on a privately own land plot adjacent to the Shell Cemetery in Laem Pho village of Sai Thai sub-district in Muang Krabi district. The sea fossils include those of coral, crinoids, bivalves and bryozoa. Local geologists inspected the rock revetment close to the Zone 3 of the Shell Cemetery on Wednesday and found that sea fossils attached to the dumped rocks were 251-299 years old, of the Permian period. The fossils are insignificant because they are incomplete and generally exist on limestone mountains. They are unlike fossils at the Shell Cemetery that are complete and more beautiful and form one of the world’s three sources of complete shell fossil layers. Plienprasop Khaonual, a national park chief supervising the Shell Cemetery, said the dumped rocks might come from a common limestone source in Krabi but national park officials had yet to see if the rock revetment had any impact on sea fossils along the beach and the Shell Cemetery. (TNA)