Ohio Petrified Wood Part 3 – Psaronius
Made another attempt to today find petrified wood in Ohio in Barnesville Belmont County area, using this article as a guide: The Aboriginal Use of Petrified Wood…
Ohio Petrified Wood Part 2 – Psaronius
Back in the early 1980s, I went on several collecting trips to the Barnesville, Ohio area to hunt for petrified wood but never found any. Last year (2018) , I…
Fossil collecting at Hueston Woods, Ohio
At the end of June, I visited Hueston Woods state park and went fossil collecting. The first time I visited the park was 30 years ago when I was in…
Photos from Fossil Park, Sylvania, Ohio
Photos taken June 26, 2012. This is the main collecting area within the park. Collecting at the park yielded some nice specimens: brachipods, gastropods, and trilobites. There was plenty of…
Fossil Park, Sylvania, Lucas Co. Ohio
Address: 5675 Centennial Road, just south of Sylvania-Metamora Road, Sylvania Ohio. Site: http://www.olanderpark.com/pages/Fossil.htm Field guide for the park: fieldguide.pdf. This park was built from inactive quarry owned by the Medusa…
Polymorphous Wurtzite localities southwestern PA and SE Ohio.
The following is a list of all the localities so far found where the wurtz-ites occur. They are listed from east to west beginning with the Shelocta locality and ending with…
Ohio Geology and Collecting locations
Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils. For long ages Ohio lay beneath a shallow sea which received successively enormous quantities of Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian…
Gold Mines of Clermont County Ohio
Clermont County, Ohio has always had a little gold in the creeks. Over the years, fortune seekers have dug mines into the local hills searching for the vein of gold…
Flint Collecting at Nethers Farm, Muskingum County, Ohio
The flint at the Nethers Farm is part of the Vanport flint formation that is Pennsylvanian in age and covers a ridge tops in an area of about 6 square…
Meteorites in Ohio
Here is some available data from ODNR on known meteor falls in ohio. Sources: (Minerals of Ohio, Carlson E, ODNR Bulletin 69 page 33). Ohio Geology Summer 1983 Newsletter
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