Rockhounding in Kent County, Delaware

Kent County

Coursey Pond, a millpond on the Murderkill drainage southeast of Felton, is one of the few inland Delaware spots where fossils turn up: poorly preserved Miocene shells and marine fragments, roughly 15 million years old, weather from the banks at the water line, mixed with quartz pebbles, feldspar, and mica in the sand and gravel.

Fossils

Kent County

Killens Pond, the centerpiece of Killens Pond State Park near Felton, is the twin of Coursey Pond in the Delaware Geological Survey's fossil-site list, with the same poorly preserved Miocene shells and marine fragments eroding from the pond banks.

Fossils

Kent County

Bowers Beach is a small Delaware Bay fishing town at the mouth of the Murderkill and St. Jones rivers, where the meeting of river and bay concentrates shells, sea glass, quartz pebbles, and beach-worn material along the public strand.

Quartz

Kent County

Pickering Beach, a quiet bay community north of Dover, is one of Delaware's most celebrated sea glass beaches, and its tide lines also yield shells, water-worn quartz, and beach pebbles.

Quartz