"There
and back again; a rockhound's tale" presented by Tom Pankratz
My
wife and I decided to escape Delaware’s
winter and took a month-long driving trip across the
country. We took the most southerly route we could (I
10 west, I 40 east) and stopped at many interesting places
along the way. Of course, many of these interesting
places had rocks, gems and geology, such as:
Agatized
coral in Tampa Bay
Karst
formation and Florida Caverns State Park
Mosaic
potash mine east of Carlsbad, New Mexico
Carlsbad
Caverns, New Mexico
Sierra
Nevada Mountains, Owens Valley and Death Valley,
California
Meteor
Crater, Arizona
Petrified Forest, Arizona
Tennessee Pearl Farm, and
where it
all comes together: The Tucson Gem and
Mineral Show
Tonight's
presentation was a travelogue of the trip discussing the
geology, mineralogy and gemology we encountered along
the way.
Times: 7:00PM - 8:45PM
7:00PM - 7:15PM Junior Members Meeting
7:15PM - 7:45PM Business Meeting
7:45PM - 8:30PM Program
Refreshments:
Beth and Rob Simpkins
[Alex Kane]
Next Board Meeting:
Spring 2010 Location: Contact: Ken Casey Agenda: 50th Anniversary, EFMLS Convention, and more.
For General Meeting Minutes & Board
Meeting Minutes, see special editions of the Geogram.
Next Show Committee Meeting:
March 2010 Location: Wayne's house Time: 7:00PM Contact: Wayne Urion Agenda:Summing up and evaluating Show and EFMLS
Convention. Start of our March 5-6, 2011 Show planning.
From I-95 take 141 North to Route 2 West (Kirkwood Hwy.). At third
stop light take a right onto Route 41 North (Newport Gap Pike). At the bottom of the hill,
just past the Wilmington & Western Railroad, take a right onto Greenbank Road. Drive
past Greenbank Mill, the parking lot is on the left, just after you recross the Wilmington &
Western Railroad tracks.
