About DMS Field Trips
The DMS sponsors and/or participates in
several field trips per month. In the past, members of the club have
visited mineral and/or fossil collecting sites in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
and North Carolina.
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.
If you are interested in
participating in a field trip, there are several ways to sign up.
They are as follows: 1) sign up at a DMS club
meeting, 2) call me at 302-838-0339 or 3) send an email
to
dmsfieldtrips@gmail.com
. Please do so at least 72-hours before each
trip. Directions to each fieldtrip will be emailed and/or
discussed over the phone with those who sign up to attend.
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All field trips are weather
dependent.
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Several of the trips are physically
demanding! All trips require at least an average level
of physical fitness!
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Most quarry trips require members
to be at least 18 years old, and to have a
hardhat, safety glasses/goggles, and steel-toed boots.
However, there are a few quarries where younger members are allowed
to collect as long as they are supervised by a parent.
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Collecting equipment should
include: rock hammers, chisels, pry-bars,
boxes, packing material for specimens such as newspaper, etc.,
screens for sifting, etc.
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Bring water, drinks and snacks for the
day.
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Wear appropriate clothing and footwear.
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Carry sunscreen and insect
repellent.
Please check back here periodically or
send me an email expressing your interest in collecting either fossils
and/or minerals and I will add you to my email list.
Over the past year, the DMS has sponsored
field trips to collect fossils and minerals at localities in
North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Delaware. For photos of the localities
that we have visited, the participants and the specimens that were
collected, please see the field trip pages on the DMS web site.
[Bob Asreen, 2010 Vice-President of Fieldtrips]
Past Field Trips 2004-2010
Karissa and Arthur, JT Dyer Quarry, 10-13-2007
March Show 2010 Field Trip Display Case
Hi! As in the past, we
are putting 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.
We could use your help in filling our case(s)
with specimens that you collected from some of our fieldtrips--both
minerals and fossils. Thanks.
--Bob
March
Show 2010 Field Trip Display Case
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Thanks to everyone
who made this case possible.
--Bob Asreen
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2010 DMS UPCOMING FIELD TRIPS
Sunday, May 2, 2010, Deer
Lake, Schuylkill Co., PA. DMS
members will visit the several localities in Deer Lake, PA to
collect fossils from the Devonian Mahantango Formation which
contains brachiopods, gastropods, pelecypods, cephalopods,
trilobites, coelenterates, and plants.
Saturday, May 8, 2010, Mud
Lake - Grubb Lake, West Hempfield Township, Lancaster Co., PA. DMS
members will visit the limonite localities approx. 1 mile
from the village of Silver Spring in Lancaster Co., PA.
Goethite "bombs" and massive limonite can be collected from the
clays along ravine and lake areas. Thrust zone composed of
Cambrian Chickies Quartzite, Harpers Phyllite and Antietam
Quartzite in complex folding. The ore deposit likely represents
iron mineralization along these thrusts, with latter enrichment
by low-temperature groundwater solutions. Minerals found
here include goethite, limonite, hematite, magnetite,
lepidocrocite, pyrolusite, and quartz. For additional
information about Grubb Lake, go to the website at
http://www.mindat.org/loc-51285.html.
Lee Creek Update
NOTE: In case you had not
heard the news, there may be no new fieldtrips here until Spring
2011.
Closed for 2010
A message from Curtis Ormond of PCS announcing
the cancellation of the 2010 collecting season at the PCS Mine
in Aurora, North Carolina was posted on January 17 on the
Elasmo website.
If you have any suggestions for
possible fossil fieldtrips, talk to Bob Asreen at a meeting, call him at the number listed in the Geogram,
or send him an email
with your suggestion and he will look into it.
Check out our Past Field Trips 2004-2010 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.
New Jersey State Museum Fieldtrips
Virginia Museum of Natural History Field Trips
VMNH FIELD TRIPS
Join the Virginia Museum of Natural
History staff 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.
Field trip fees are used to support VMNH
research. To learn about upcoming field trips or to make a
reservation, please e-mail
fieldtrips@vmnh.virginia.gov or call the museum at (276)
634-4171. This information is also available on the VMNH website at
http://www.vmnh.net under the Research and Collections and
VMNH Expeditions links. Please note that space is limited.
(Scientifically significant specimens may be retained by curators
for the VMNH collection.)
Details of these trips can be found at: http://www.vmnh.net/index.cfm?pg=285
Janet Roetken
Administrative Assistant
Research and Collections
Virginia
Museum of Natural History
21 Starling Avenue
Martinsville, VA
24112
276.634.4171
276.634.4199 (Fax)
janet.roetken@vmnh.virginia.gov
Collecting Adventure Stories:
"Sunny Brook Crick
Goethite" by Joe Dunleavy |
