Many of the shells found on Edisto Beach are from oysters

scale in cms

Edible oysters have a very irregular shell shape which results from tight packing with other oysters. As seen above, oysters cement to each other for stability. As a result massive build-ups of shells are found in many protected near-shore areas. Edible oysters lack the pearly inner lining of the pearl oysters. Many fossil oysters are mixed in with the modern shells.

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