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Digging the Past: Exploring Fossils, Minerals & Archaeology
Saturday August 29 - 10 am - 4 pm
Falls of the Ohio State Park, 201 W. Riverside Drive, Clarksville, Indiana 47129
Falls of the Ohio State Park, 201 W. Riverside Drive, Clarksville, Indiana 47129
Visitors are invited to explore fossils, minerals, and archaeology with a variety of programs behind the Interpretive Center. Special consideration is being made for the pandemic. Masks required to approach tables. Parking - $2 per vehicle. Interpretive Center admission varies. Please call 812-280-9970 for more info.
Here’s what’s happening:
Sponsors: Irving Materials, Inc. (IMI), Bagshaw Trucking, Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology and the Mineral and Fossil Interest Club.
812-280-9970. Questions / additional information: park@fallsoftheohio.org.
Here’s what’s happening:
- Our popular collecting piles will have (free) ticketed times every 30 minutes and social distance capacities this year with more smaller collecting piles
- Refreshed Silurian and Devonian fossil piles courtesy Irving Materials, Inc. (IMI) & Bagshaw Trucking; new minerals as well
- Outer fossil bed hike (age 12 years+) starts at 9:30am
- Hourly guided hikes - 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm
- Talks / tips on collecting fossils (10:30am), minerals (11:30am), collecting tools (12:30pm), collecting safely (1:30pm), and collecting geodes (2:30pm)
- Roving naturalists to help you discover the fossil beds for those who don’t want to join a hike
- Create an “egg carton” geology collection
- Make a weather rock or pet rock
- Table top fossil & mineral displays
- Dig “artifacts” in one of our archaeological mini-mock dig stations
- Wade Tharp with the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology will have information and to help with identification of artifacts.
- Get your unknown rocks and fossils identified
Sponsors: Irving Materials, Inc. (IMI), Bagshaw Trucking, Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology and the Mineral and Fossil Interest Club.
812-280-9970. Questions / additional information: park@fallsoftheohio.org.
