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Turtle-shaped rock called a ‘concretion’

DEPOE BAY " A chunk of rock found in a cliff near Depoe Bay is not a fossil of a turtle, but it might have something interesting inside.

Scientists and fossil experts concluded the rock is a concretion " a stack of sedimentary rock made up of a mineral cement deposited by groundwater....

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