Red Bud and Dogwood trees on the Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway on approaching Natural Bridge State Park.
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Tufted Titmouse
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Dogwood flowers.
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Wild Blue Phlox.
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White snow trillium (nivale}.
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Boxwork feature.
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Underneath Natural Bridge.
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Wild Iris.
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Natural Bridge.
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Fat man's misery, Natural Bridge.
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Cross bedding with liesengang-Rock Garden Trail.
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Sideritic porosity ridges-Rock Garden Trail.
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Sideritic porosity ridges-Rock Garden Trail.
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White and Pink Trilliums-Rock Garden Trail.
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Trilliums on the hillside-Rock Garden Trail.
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Stop 1: Group at Nada Tunnel.
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Stop 1: Nada Tunnel, completed in 1911, cut into the lower half of the Corbin Sandstone Member of the Grundy Formation.
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Stop 2: Looking into Chimney Top Rock-isolated by a deep joint or fracture within the Corbin Sandstone Member of the Grundy Formation.
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Stop 4: Bell Falls channel fill, Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity.
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Stop 4: Bell Falls.
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Stop 4: Bell Falls channel lag fill.
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Stop 4: Movie-Using a Geiger counter to measure radioactivity of the lower rock section from the concentration of uranium salts from the ground water by organic matter.
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Wild geraniums (Geranium maculatum).
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Stop 5: Group at Moonshiners Arch-limestone arch in the Upper Mississippian Slade Formation, floor is Mill Knob Member and is covered by the Tygarts Creek Member.
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Jack-In-The_Pulpit.
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Columbine-Agguilegia canadensis.
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Stop 6: Sky Bridge-upper part of the Corbin Sandstone Member of the Grundy Formation. 1955 film "The Kentuckian" filmed here.
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Stop 6: Steve Martin expalining joint orientation to group.
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Stop 6: Sky Bridge.
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Stop 6: Cross bedding at Sky Bridge.
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Stop 6: log embedded in the sandstone.
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Mallorn and Solomon's Seal.
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Stop 9: Glencairn Fault.
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Group at awards banquet.
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Past president Faith Fiene with Merit Award certificate for Collie Rulo.
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Past president Faith Fiene and President Dr. James Howard with Science Fair award for William.
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President Dr. James Howard present student award to Zach Mergenthal.
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President Dr. James Howard presenting Past president plaque to Faith Fiene.
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President Dr. james Howard presenting Geologist of the Year award to Gil Cumbee.
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President Dr. James Howard presenting the Lifetime Achievement award to Charlie Mason.
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AIPG president Mike Lawless
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Guest speaker Ray Daniel from the Kentucky Geological Survey.
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