Next Meeting of the Kentucky Paleontological Society:

China: Inner Mongolia and Yunnan

WHEN: Friday, April 25, 7:30 PM.

WHERE: Mines and Minerals Resources Building, next to the Faculty Club, Room 101. The Mines and Minerals Building is home of the Kentucky Geological Survey. It is conveniently located on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington. A map in pdf format is available for downloading.

SPEAKER: Dr. Donald Chesnut

TOPIC: “Fossils of Inner Mongolia and Yunnan Province, China”

            The KPS will meet at 7:30 PM on Friday, April 25 on the first floor of the Mining and Minerals Resources Building on the University of Kentucky campus (see above for more details).

This month’s speaker is Dr. Donald Chesnut. Don’s talk is titled “Late Paleozoic Fossils of Mongolia and China ."  Don recently made yet another visit to China to visit geological sites in Inner Mongolia in northern China and Yunnan Province in southern China. Exquisite plant fossils in Inner Mongolia were preserved by volcanic ash. Marine fossils in western Yunnan province demonstrate Gondwanan to Tethys migration of small tectonic plates.

            Because of the reopening of the University of Kentucky Faculty Club , parking in the lot behind the Mines and Minerals Building may be difficult.  Please be aware that there is free parking available at the large parking structure located adjacent to the Mines and Minerals Building at the North end of Hilltop Avenue (see map link above).

 ALSO – Please note that Rose Street no longer connects with Nicholasville Road !

 Discussion of upcoming KPS field trips and meetings.

Bring your unidentified specimens for us to see!