Rainbow After the Storm

A rainbow appeared at sunset on Sunday October 6, 2013. I just so happened to be near the 2nd St. bridge going to Louisville and took this picture at the Indiana visitors center.

The colors were quite intense and the rainbow seemed to last for about 15 minutes.

The last few days have brought record rainfalls to the area with some flooding of low lying areas around Louisville.

Mammoth Tooth

Tooth from what was thought to be a Mammuthus primigenius. It was found in Scott County, Indiana. The creature existed in the Pleistocene Epoch.

The tooth is on display at the geology department at Indiana University Southeast (IUS) of New Albany, Indiana as of August 2013.

Headless Calymene Trilobite

I had high hopes for this trilobite fossil that was buried in matrix. It was possible that the cephalon or head was still buried in matrix along with one of the thorax lobes and tail (pygidium). So after using an air scribe and sand blasting it is revealed a tail but no head. A headless trilobite and it is not even Halloween yet! Oh so scary. Next image shows fossil with a ruler to give the viewer some idea its size.  Fossil is a Silurian Calymene sp. trilobite found in the Waldron Shale of Indiana.