About DMS Field Trips
The DMS sponsors and/or
participates in several field trips per month visiting mineral and fossil collecting sites
in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina.
All field trips
are weather dependent and require at least an average level of physical fitness!
Several of the trips are physically demanding!
All quarry
trips requires members to be 18 years old and have hardhat, safety
glasses/goggles and steel-toed boots.
Recommended
collecting equipment includes: rock hammers, chisels, pry-bars, screens for
sifting, collecting boxes, packing material (newspaper is good), etc. Always bring
water, drinks and snacks for the day and wear appropriate clothing and footwear.
To sign up
for scheduled trips or suggest other possible trips leave a message at 302-838-0339,
send email to glauconite5@yahoo.com at least
48-hours before each trip or see me during DMS club meetings. Directions to each
fieldtrip will be emailed and/or discussed over the phone with those who signup to attend.
Additional trips are in
for July and August are in various stages of planning, but have not been finalized at the
printing of June's Geogram. Since the Geogram is not published
during these months. To get the latest updated information about fieldtrips, please
check back here periodically or send me an email expressing your interest in collecting
either fossils or minerals and I will add you to my email list.
Members of DMS are also eligible to participate in fieldtrips hosted by the members of the
Eastern Field Trip Alliance. To reserve a place
on a EFTA field trip, you must contact me at least 3
weeks prior to the trip.
Over the past year, the DMS has sponsored field trips to collect fossils and minerals at
localities in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. On
each page is a
brief synopsis of those trips. For photos of
the localities that we visited, the participants and the specimens that were collected,
please see the field trip pages on the DMS web site.
[Bob Asreen]
Past Field Trips 2004-2008
March Show 2008 Field Trip Display Case
Hi! As in the past, we put together a DMS Field Trip display case to show the
visitors at the show where the DMS field trips have taken us and what has been found at
those localities.
--Bob
March
Show 2008 Field Trip Display Cases
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Our Field Trip
Display Cases from 2008
Thanks to:
Everyone who made these cases possible
[Bob Asreen]
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2008 DMS FIELD TRIPS
UPCOMING FIELD TRIPS
Bob Asreen
May 3, 2008, Saturday: Haines
& Kibblehouse Penn-Maryland Materials Quarry, Fulton Township, Lancaster
County, PA: This quarry is adjacent to the Cedar Hill Quarry
and produces similar minerals including antigorite, picrolite, lizardite,
deweylite, chromite and many others. Please sign up by April 30th
if you would like to attend!
May 11, 2008, Sunday:
PCS (aka
Lee Creek) Mine, Aurora, Beaufort County, NC: (7:30AM+)
Aurora is the premier locality on the East Coast for collecting Miocene
age vertebrate and invertebrate fossils. Fossils that can be found
at the mine include the remains of sharks, whales, porpoises, fish,
birds and mollusks.
DMS has been given 10 seats on the bus into the PCS Phosphate mine
in Aurora, North Carolina on Sunday, May 11th, which is
Mother’s Day. So far, 8 members have signed up for the trip.
If you are interested in going to Lee Creek with DMS, please contact me
by phone or by email to get on the list for this trip.
Only club members 18 or older whose dues are current will be eligible
for this trip.
May 17-18, 2008, Saturday &
Sunday: Bob & Nadir Jenkins Last Home Show.
Bob's entire inventory and
personal collection will be available for sale.
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Prices discounted at least 50% off, except for consignment
pieces
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Address: 6 Columbus
Circle, Newark, DE. From I-95, take 896 South exit.
Take Highway 896 South to third traffic light, then right
onto Four Seasons Parkway, and two long blocks to Columbus
Circle on right.
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Time: 10AM - 6PM both
days
May 23-25, 2008, Aurora Fossil Festival,
Aurora, NC. For more information, check out the Calendar of Events
on the Aurora Fossil Museum
website.
May 31, 2008, Saturday:
Haines & Kibblehouse Cornwall Materials Quarry,
Cornwall, Lebanon County,
PA:
(8AM-12PM) (Tentative)
This quarry produces magnetite, garnet, hematite, chrysocolla, pyrite,
chalcopyrite and many other minerals. Please sign up by May 15th
if you would like to attend!
June 14, 2008, Saturday: Martin Limestone,
Burkholder Quarry Open House, 606 Martindale Road, Eprata, PA
17522. 9:30AM - 2PM. This event is open to the public and
will not only serve to educate the community about Martin Limestone
operations and about the contributions the industry makes to our
everyday quality of life, but also provide a fun family day for the
employees and the community.
The Martin Limestone webpage:
http://www.martinlimestone.com has a link for information about the
company. Plug the quarry address into any map program (Mapquest,
Yahoo, Google, etc.) as your destination and it will give you directions
from your departure point.
This active quarry mines the limestones, dolostones, and shales of the
Cambrian-aged Buffalo Springs Formation. Minerals found at these
quarries include: calcite, dolomite, fluorite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite.
June 21, 2008, Saturday: Haines & Kibblehouse Birdsboro Quarry,
Birdsboro, Berks County, PA. 8:00AM - Noon. This
quarry produces calcite, chabazite, prehnite, and many other minerals.
Please sign up by June 19th if you would like to attend.
Well another DMS field trip season is upon us!
As always, it is a great time to renew old acquaintances and make
new ones!
[Bob Asreen]
Lee Creek Update
May 11, 2008 (Sunday, Mother's Day) is our Lee Creek trip this
Spring.
If you have any suggestions for possible fieldtrips, talk to me at a meeting, call me at 302-838-0339
or send me an email glauconite5@yahoo.com
with your suggestion and I will look into it.
Check out our Past Field Trips 2004-2008 for pictures, detail, and such.
E.F.T.A. (formerly N.E.F.T.A.)
FIELDTRIPS
Remember, members of DMS will also be eligible to
participate in field trips hosted by the members of the Eastern Field Trip Alliance (EFTA). I will post those trips in the Geogram when the schedule
becomes available in the spring. I would also suggest that you check the web site to find
out about upcoming field trips.
For more information, go to: www.nefta.us
Society of Natural
History of Delaware
All events are free and
open to the public. Fieldtrips normally take 2-4 hours.
For questions and/or reservations for any trip call
Al Matlack at (302)239-5383.
Saturday, March 29, 2:00 P.M., PIKE CREEK ECOLOGICAL
RESTORATION with Steve Williams of D.N.R.E.C.
Sunday, April 13, 2:00 P.M.,REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS OF
BLACKBIRD STATE FORESST with Mick McLaughlin
Saturday, May 10,11:45 A.M., OLD GROWTH FOREST NEAR
MILLVILLE, NEW JERSEY with Jim Thorne of the Natural Lands Trust-
400 year old black gum trees
Wednesday, June 18, 6:00 P.M., GREEN ROOF OF BARCLAY'S
BANK BUILDING - a part of saving energy with passive solar heating
and cooling
Sunday, July 20, 2:00 P.M., HOW TO TURN A LAWN INTO A
WILD FLOWER MEADOW with Mark Gormel of Landenberg
Saturday, August 16, 12:00 noon, ORGANIC FRUIT AND
VEGETABLE FARM near Rising Sun, MD.
New Jersey State Museum Field Trips
Check back in the Spring, please.
Virginia Museum of Natural History Field Trips
Join VMNH staff on our paleontological field trips and learn about
the fascinating geological history of the Middle Atlantic States. These trips cover a wide
variety of ages and environments representative of the last 450 million years.
All trips are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Some trips
have limits on the number of participants. Fees are used to support research at VMNH.
Requested donations for each trip do not include accommodations, meals, transportation, or
park entry fees.
To make a reservation, send a message to butchd@vmnh.net with the subject "Field Trip."
Tell which trip you are interested in, and how many adults and children will be
attending, or call 276-666-8644. Then mail a check payable to Virginia Museum of Natural History to:
Virginia Museum of Natural History
Attn: Research Field Trips
1001 Douglas Ave.
Martinsville, VA 24112
Schedules and itineraries are tentative. Trips may be cancelled due
to inclement weather or lack of enrollment. Trips will be cancelled unless 10 people have
pre-paid at least one week prior to the trip, and after that point no refunds will be
offered unless the trip is cancelled. Curators for the VMNH collection may retain
scientifically significant specimens.
Details of these trips can be found at:
http://www.vmnh.net/index.cfm?pg=285
[Bob Asreen]
DMS Vice President – Field Trips
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