Rock Gem and Mineral Show at Irvine, Kentucky

I keep getting announcements for events to post. Just as well, my school work is really picking up as large projects are coming due. So my every day posts might stop for a while or will just be an unlabeled picture. No collecting time either and the springs rains have shown up in the Ohio River Valley to help reveal hidden fossils.

If you get a chance check out the Rock Gem and Mineral Show in Irvine, Kentucky which will be part of the Mountain Mushroom Festival. The event takes place on the weekend of April 24-26, 2009.

I believe the area is known for their Kentucky agates but they will have minerals, jewelry and fossils for sale as well.

The Bluegrass Gem & Mineral Club is co-sponsoring it.

For more info see this website:http://www.estillcountyky.net/

Kentucky Paleontological Society - A Sea Without Fish Meeting

For those readers who might be near Lexington, Kentucky; this might be of interest.



MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

WHO- The Kentucky Paleontological Society (KPS).

WHEN- Friday, April 24, 7:30 PM.

WHERE- Lexington, Kentucky, Mines and Minerals Resources Building, Room 101, Rose Street, UK Campus.

SPEAKER - Dr. David Meyer, Professor of Geology, University of Cincinnati


TOPIC - “A Sea Without Fish.” Lecture and book signing.



Find out more info: http://www.uky.edu/OtherOrgs/KPS/pages/nextmeeting.html



Also see some postings I have made about this book:



http://louisvillefossils.blogspot.com/search?q=a+sea+without+fish

A Good Reason to Join Dry Dredgers

Dry Dredgers is a geology society in Cincinnati, Ohio that was formed in 1942. They have a really nice website packed with images and fossil information. That area of Ohio must be primarily Ordovician.

Here is a set of photos they have posted about a 2009 field trip:

http://www.drydredgers.org/trip200903p1.htm

Wow, they collected some nice fossils and that looked like quite a turn out. I am not sure what a lot of them are but I saw some Cryptolithus trilobite pieces, castings of orthoceras cephalopods, gastropod molds and shells, crinoid stems, Isotelus feeding scoop, part of Flexicalymene trilobite, trace fossils, worm shells, branching bryozoans, tentaculites, brachiopods, and aragonite pelecypod shell.