7:00PM - 7:15PM Junior
Members Meeting
7:15PM - 7:45PM Business Meeting
7:45PM - 8:30PM Program
Refreshments:
See Beth Simpkins to sign-up for our April and May 2010 meeting snacks.
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[Alex Kane]
At Our Last Meeting:
Monday, January 11, 2010
Location: Greenbank Mill, Wilmington, DE
Program:
"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.
