The Kentucky Gateway Museum Center in Maysville, Kentucky will be hosting the part of the dinosaur collection owned by John Hankla. The exhibition is called "Tracking the Past - The Dinosaurs Are Coming" and opens June 7, 2011 and ends October 31, 2011.
Twelve dinosaur casts will be shown including: Tyrannosaurus rex, Deinosuchus sp., Potamomis sp., Struthiomimus sedens, Edmontosaurus annectens, Thescelosaurus neglectus, and Didelphodon vorax. In addition the casts of 20 trackways will be shown made by eight different animals.
Learn more by reading the article entitled "The dinosaurs are here" by Marla Toncray in The Ledger Independent.
Visit the Kentucky Gateway Museum Center at their web site: www.kygmc.org or call 606-564-5865. As a point of reference, Maysville is about 136 miles driving distance east of Louisville, Kentucky.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Fossils After the Diamond Saw
This first specimen is a cross section of a horn coral from either Michigan or Canada. My friend Dave at Views of the Mahantango sent it to me.
The second cross section might be of a sponge found in the Louisville Limestone of Kentucky (Silurian).
The last cross section is a colonial coral found in the Louisville Limestone of Kentucky (Silurian).
Monday, May 30, 2011
Memorial Day in the USA
"that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -- Abraham Lincoln
These words came clear to me recently on a visit to Baldwin Cemetery in the town of Vernon, Indiana. While I was studying a nearby fossil locality, my journey took me though this cemetery where I came across the tombstones of two soldiers. Both men have the same last names and buried within meters of each other. One died during World War II and the other a soldier in the American Civil War serving with the 22 Regiment Indiana Infantry died of old age during World War I.
Memorial Day was created to honor soldiers like this.
Interesting, the same cemetery more veterans were found and again with the same family name. These veterans were from the War of 1812 and the American Civil War.
Another grave marker appears to be from the famous Indiana Limestone and shows some the excellent stone carving craftsmanship. It represents a tree stump with a fern growing next to it.
The Muscatatuck River flowing near the cemetery.
Cephalopod imprint of a Silurian Dawsonoceras(?) in the Laurel Dolomite.
These words came clear to me recently on a visit to Baldwin Cemetery in the town of Vernon, Indiana. While I was studying a nearby fossil locality, my journey took me though this cemetery where I came across the tombstones of two soldiers. Both men have the same last names and buried within meters of each other. One died during World War II and the other a soldier in the American Civil War serving with the 22 Regiment Indiana Infantry died of old age during World War I.
Memorial Day was created to honor soldiers like this.
Interesting, the same cemetery more veterans were found and again with the same family name. These veterans were from the War of 1812 and the American Civil War.
Another grave marker appears to be from the famous Indiana Limestone and shows some the excellent stone carving craftsmanship. It represents a tree stump with a fern growing next to it.
The Muscatatuck River flowing near the cemetery.
Cephalopod imprint of a Silurian Dawsonoceras(?) in the Laurel Dolomite.
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