With the moving trucks parked, the core boxes rearranged, and the dust barely settled, the IGWS Core Repository will reopen on Monday, October 29, 2018. The cores are now housed in the former Otis Elevator warehouse at 1425 S. Curry Pike, Bloomington, Ind.

"With the help of Iron Mountain [a specialized collections relocation company], we moved 400 tons of material---that's 51 miles of rock core---in less than a month," said Todd Thompson, IGWS Director and State Geologist. “I wish we were in better shape. We will get there over the coming months as we rebox and reshelve the core. Regardless, we know where every core is and can get it for anyone needing subsurface data."

Previously housed in a 4,000-square-foot building in compact storage, the core samples are now available for research and study in a 50,000-square-foot warehouse. The core boxes are contained on pallets that are spread out in the larger building.

If you wish to schedule access to the IGWS Core Repository samples, please contact:

Jayson Eldridge
Indiana Geological and Water Survey
420 N. Walnut St.
Bloomington, IN 47404
(812) 855-5412
jayeldri@indiana.edu

Indiana Rocks! A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Hoosier State is now available from the IGWS online bookstore and soon will be available on the Amazon and Barnes and Noble websites and in bookstores around the state. Researched and written by Polly Sturgeon, the Outreach Coordinator of the Indiana Geological and Water Survey, with help from her colleagues, the book is a cross section of the Hoosier state and a treasure of geological and historical surprises.

From the Indiana Dunes of Lake Michigan, one of the world's largest displays of lakeshore dunes, to the historic little town of New Harmony, where American geology had its beginnings, this book is your guide to 50 of the most significant and interesting sites in Indiana. You will find kettle lakes formed by melting glaciers, gorgeous waterfalls carved into the rock, and a world-renowned karst landscape peppered with sinkholes and caves. Explore the Falls of the Ohio, the location of the largest exposed Devonian fossil beds in the world, or wander through the campus of Indiana University and tour the buildings and carvings of Salem Limestone, a building stone treasured by architects.

Indiana Rocks! is $18, plus tax and shipping. Soft cover, 143 pages, Mountain Press Publishing Co.

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More than 9 miles of subterranean passages of the Wyandotte Cave System wind beneath the Crawford Upland in southern Indiana. Using data gathered from various sources dating from 1966 to 2018, the Indiana Geological and Water Survey offers this unique look at the cave that includes the names of different "rooms" and features given by the cavers who discovered them.

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