The town of Kemmerer calls itself “Wyoming’s Aquarium in Stone.” Quarries just outside town yield schools of fossilized fish with just a few taps of a chisel.
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Quarries
Synonyms for "quarries" (155 found)
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The town could do more to promote fossil safaris out to the nearby quarries, where visitors can easily find their own fossils to take home.
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A century ago, gypsum quarries sat here.
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Those more difficult jobs, especially in the quarries, were carried out by criminals sentenced by the judges, or by prisoners of war.
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