MAPS Digest (Mid America Paleontological Society)
This is the largest amateur paleontology groups in the U.S. When I wrote these articles, the readership was over 300 world-wide.
Anatomy of Lichenocrinus, March 1983
Differentiating the Devonian Coral Genus Favosites and Emmonsia, December 1983
Distribution of Paleozoic Corals in the United States, March & April 1985
Worm burrows in Middle Devonian Corals, February 1987
Fluorite-replaced Fossils, January 1988
A brief stop at Florissant, Colorado, November 1988
Systematics of the Devonian coral genus Emmonsia of the Kentuckiana area, October 1989
Labeling: Transmitting Information for Years to Come, December 1989
The Coral Ridge Fauna, April, 1992
Extinct Echinoderms of Kentucky, April 1993
Current Proper Names of Devonian Corals at the Falls of the Ohio, April 1998
Types & Growth Habits of Devonian Corals at the Falls of the Ohio and Surrounding Areas, April 1998
Microfossils of the Middle Mississippian Salem Limestone: Midwest U.S.A., April, 1999
Interaction Among Devonian Sea Life…, April, 2013
Fossils of the Waldron Shale (with Kate Bulinski), EXPO issue 2022
Devonian Fauna of the Falls of the Ohio area, EXPO issue 2023
Fossil News
This was a privately published monthly publication. It is no longer being published.
Curating Your Collection, February 2001
Fossils Quarterly
A short-lived small-format magazine, this was one of my first articles on fossils.
Fossils of the Louisville Limestone, Spring-Summer 1983
Journal of Paleontology (co-author)
This is a journal of the Paleontological Society, the largest professional organization of paleontologists in the world.
Crinoids from the Muldraugh Member of the Borden Formation in North-Central Kentucky, vol. 74, no., 6, 2000 (co-author)
A New Species of Gilmocrinus from the Muldraugh Formation, Osagean, Middle Mississippian, from Hardin Co., Kentucky, 2007
Evolution and Taphonomic Implications of a New Species of Amphoracrinus from the Early Visean of Kentucky (co-author), 2021
The Mineralogical Record
This is considered to be the most prestigious mineral magazine in North America and of the top three in the world.
Gerard Troost and His Collection, Sept. – Oct. 1984
Illinois – Kentucky Fluorite District, May-June 1997**
Look under the “Minerals” and “Collecting Localities” pages on this website for significant content and photographs.
** Article won an award of the Best Article of the Year (Friends of Mineralogy, a national organization comprised of amateur and professional mineralogists / collectors)
Famous Mineral Localities: Halls Gap, Lincoln Co., Kentucky, Sept.-Oct. 1997 (with Bill McKenzie)
Mineral News
This was a monthly periodical for mineral collectors published by Lanny Ream for many years before he “passed the torch” to a mineral dealer.
I plan to either scan each Mineral News article to PDF or rewrite the most significant articles and post them on my website. Check the “Minerals” page.
Vugs in Fossils in Kentucky, May 1988
Minerals in Drill Cores, Cave in Rock, Illinois, July 1988
Minor Secondary Minerals in the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District, August 1988
Getting the Shaft in a Fluorite Mine – a Visit to the Annabel Lee Mine, October 1988
What Makes a Mineral Collection Valuable to a Museum? January, 1989
Minerals of Kentucky: The Species List, May, 1989
Minerals in the Geodes of Indiana and Kentucky, September, 1989
– Reprinted in “The Rockpile,” newsletter of the Dearborn Michigan Mineralogical and Lapidary Society, May, 1990.
Labels Transmitting Information for Years to Come, February, 1990
Two Virginia Staurolite Localities, March, 1990
A New Celestite and Aragonite(?) Locality near South Carthage, Tennessee, June, 1990
Halls Gap Millerite Locality – A Collector’s Update, August, 1990
Rambling through Colorado – 1, The Madonna Mine, April 1991
Muldraugh, Kentucky Geode Locality: An Update, May, 1991
Roaming Colorado II – The Hartsel Barite Locality, July 1991
Cave in Rock – 1991, November, 1991
Mineral Locality News, January, 1992
Wandering Colorado – III, Vesicular Basalt Occurrence near Walcott, Eagle Co., Colorado, March, 1992
Collecting in Colorado – IV, Browns Canyon Fluorspar district, July, 1992
Examining Halls Gap Geodes: The SEM Approach, September, 1992
Examining Halls Gap Geodes: Part II – Some Notes on Millerite, November, 1992
Examining Halls Gap Geodes – Part III, Jamborite and other alterations of Millerite, December, 1992
Some Interesting Crystal Phantoms from Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky, February, 1993
Collecting Report: Cave in Rock, 1992, March, 1993
A Mid-Summer’s Day Collecting Trip, March, 1993
Collecting Geodes Near Harrodsburg Indiana: Results from a brief excursion, June, 1993
Collecting in Colorado – V, National Belle Mine, August, 1993
1993 (Mineral) Report, September, 1993
Mineralized Fossils in Kentucky, December, 1993
Halls Gap 5 – Sphalerite, Galena, and a note about Cerussite, February, 1994
Halls Gap 4 – Pyrite, April, 1994
Corydon Crushed Stone quarry… Productive for the Moment, August, 1994
Halls Gap 6 – Quartz, October, 1994
Book Review – Rocks and Minerals of Kentucky, January 1995
Halls Gap 7- Mineral Miscellany, February, 1995
Etched Minerals, A Exciting View with an Electron Microscope, September, 1995
Fluorite and Associated Minerals from the… Irvington Quarry, Breckinridge Co., Kentucky, April, 1996
Giant Gypsum from a Kentucky Mine, June, 1996
Bloomington Mineral Fossil & Gem Show 1996, August, 1996
Ben F. Clement Mineral Museum, January, 1997
Minerals near Tateville, Pulaski Co., KY, November, 1997
Minerals of the Walker Vein, Central Kentucky Fluorspar District, June, 2000
Smithsonite Discovery in Cave in Rock, Illinois, September, 2001
Unusual Minerals in the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District, May, 2003
Bancroft: A First Timer’s Report, September, 2004
Re-examination of Some Minerals from the Cave in Rock Area, April, 2005
2005 San Diego Collecting Trip, October, 2005
Spherical Sphalerite from Bardstown, Kentucky, August 2010
Rock & Gem
One of the largest circulating hobby magazines in the U.S.
Falls of the Ohio – Indiana’s Newest State Park, Nov. 1994
Rocks and Minerals
The oldest amateur publication of its type in North America.
Kentucky Mineral Locality Index, Nov.-Dec. 2006
Others
Managing a Fossil Park in an Urban Environment, in PaleoParks – The protection and conservation of fossil sites worldwide, Notebooks in Geology, Book 3, 2009