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Blastoids in Wax, Kentucky

Published in the June, 2017 WCGMC Newsletter

In late April, six members of Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club joined a Buffalo Geological Society fossil collecting trip to the Cincinnati area led by Jerry Bastedo.  We visited several productive sites, but I thought I would direct this month’s site of the month to the southernmost collecting spot we visited.  Most of the trip focused on quarries and roadcuts that expose Ordovician and Silurian strata in the Cincinnati Arch.  However, on Saturday, we climbed all the way up to the Mississippian by driving several hours south to a modest roadcut in Wax, Kentucky where we collected blastoids in the Glen Dean Formation.

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