The world's best-preserved fossils are right outside Chicago: But there are no dinosaur bones at Mazon Creek
Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal mine, the waste pile—located on a massive river delta from another era—is an unremarkable remnant from the region's once-thriving coal industry.
Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal mine, the waste pile—located on a massive river delta from another era—is an unremarkable remnant from the region's once-thriving coal industry.
