[Rockhounds] Collecting sites request OH, IN, IL

[Glenn Wimpee]

We may be able to get by there Monday or Tuesday May 12 or 13.
 
Anybody available for a short visit?
 
Alan?
 
Are you near there Elton?
 
Neal, when are you & Karen going through there?
 
Anyone?
 
Yup, I'm all excited as the trip gets closer.
Glenn  & Jeanette

> Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 06:39:42 -0700> From: mstreman53 at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Collecting sites request OH, IN, IL> To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com> > Hello Neal > The answer to WHERE is look down anywhere. You are going into fossil central! In addition to direct collecting there are a few more attractions in the region that should be included in any trip into the area.> > Across the river from Louisville, KY is the an incredible fossil site: Falls of the Ohio State Park with our own Alan Goldstein. It is a must see. They do have material trucked in which you can go through. There is something spiritual about walking on an ancient seafloor. > > The Museum in Cincinnati in in the old train station has collection of local geology and paleontology plus IMAX.> > Tom Johnson runs House of Phacops in Peeples Ohio which is about 20 minutes east of Cincy near Serpent Mound. It is a great stop off on the way to the Mound which lies on the edge of an ancient impact crater. Tom's shop has some of the largest trilobites ever found.> > South and East of Cincy is Bigbone Lick State Park. I can't recommend a trip just for the park but it claims to be the birthplace of American Vertebrate Paleontology with connections to Lewis and Clark. Worth a stop off if you happen to be driving by.> > Seriously, Neal virtually every roadcut in the area yields very highly detailed assemblages of fossils. There is a fluorite district in the region plus a geode project however I know little to nothing about their exact locations.> > Enjoy the trip.> > Elton> > --- On Tue, 5/6/08, Neal Ha zen <batsondebelfry at yahoo.com> wrote:> > > From: Neal Ha zen <batsondebelfry at yahoo.com>> Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 1:41 AM> > Hi folks,> > > My wife and I are going up to southern Indiana in two weeks to visit relatives. While there, we will collect some fossils, but wonder if there is good collecting for anything else in the southern portions of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio?> > Neal Hazen> > -- 
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