With the name - I came up with this.  A bit chilling - homeland invasion.

http://nis.gsmfc.org/nis_factsheet.php?toc_id=128

It states
" This species is found in fresh waters throughout the United States
including all five Gulf states and northern Mexico (Dundee, 1974;
Carlton, 1992). Estuarine populations have been reported for the San
Francisco Bay, California and Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, but none have
been reported for the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem (Carlton, 1992)."

Martin

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> Lyle,
>
> Sounds like you found Corbicula fluminea (Muller, 1774). This is an
> introduced bivalve. If you are interested, I would be willing to exchange
> 2 or 3 from here (PA) with some of yours. Let me know.
>
>
>> I do not think they were actually clams, they resembled more a
>> marine cardidae than anything else. Naturally I picked up a few and
>> brought them home. They look similiar to the small bivalves I found in the
>> creek a few days before except they are much larger.  ( Maybe the small
>> ones are juveniles )
>>
>
> Regards,
> Charlie
> .................................................
> Charlie Sturm
> Research Associate - Section of Mollusks
> Carnegie Museum of Natural History
> Pittsburgh, PA, USA
>
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> Fellow-Academy of Wilderness Medicine
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