The Pipe Creek Sinkhole - Indiana's World Famous Paleontological Site
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A program that features Dr. James Farlow, Professor of Geology at Indiana University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW), will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Manchester College Union, Hoff Room.
In 1996, employees of the Pipe Creek Jr. quarry near Swayzee made a startling discovery. They had uncovered a diverse array of fossils from the Pliocene era, dating back five million years.
Fossils of plants and animals had accumulated in sediments of an ancient pond. The fossil assemblage includes numerous small vertebrates as well as cats, canids, bears, peccaries, camels and rhinoceroses.
IPFW, in collaboration with the Indiana State Museum, began research on this fabulous discovery in 1998. Farlow is one of the two researchers who have spearheaded research at the site.
