Sample Articles by Alan

I’ve had over 150 articles published since 1981, in geology, astronomy, nature, interpretation (as a park naturalist), gardening, and more. This page will have titles that link to individual articles. I will republish articles from time to time here. New articles will be published on the appropriate page (topics in astronomy, geology, etc.).

Link to my bibliography

New! A short story I entered in a contest, called Kentucky Surfin’. Perhaps A Geologist’s Dream would be better.

From Mineral News – June 2000: Minerals of the Walker Vein, Central Kentucky Fluorspar District

From Mineral News – Sept. 2001: Smithsonite Discovery in Cave in Rock, Illinois

From Astronomy magazine – Nov. 2009: Watch as Galaxies Collide

From Fossil News v. 2, no. 1-2, 1983: Fossils of the Louisville Limestone

M.A.P.S. Digest Mar. 1985: The distribution of Paleozoic Coral

Creative writing very short stories on life in the Devonian Period for the old Falls of the Ohio website:

Tiny the Trilobite

Tentacles

Cruising the Coral Sea

Photograph of part of the Legacy magazine article Seeing the Unseen.
From Legacy magazine, published by the National Association for Interpretation.