I recently collected geodes in southern Indiana for the first time. References: https://digitalrockhound.com/?p=506ml Map: Collected geodes near a reservoir just north of Bloomington Indiana. Collected geodes in the woods near…
From Indiana DNR The Falls of the Ohio is a great place to see fossils, but collecting is illegal except at the designatedcollecting piles next to the parking lot behind the…
Colorless quartz crystals in cavities and geodes found in Lilley Dolomite formation along with calcite and sphalerite. Location in an abandoned quarry along the northside of Highway 54 approximately 1…
THE ORIGIN OF THE GEODES OF THE KEOKUK BEDS.By Francis M. Van Tuyl.Pages 169, 170, 171, 172PROBABLY nowhere else in America do geodes attain such an exceptional development as in…
Here is the text of an American Mineralogist Reprint. Includes a description of the Keokuk geode beds from 1917! [PDF]FAMOUS MINERAL LOCALITIES. I. THE KEOKUK GEODE REGION File Format: PDF/Adobe…
Ohio is not known for geodes. Almost all of the geodes reported are calcite geodes reported in limestones and dolomites from southwestern Ohio. Geodes are rare but limestones and dolomites…