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At Our Meeting: Monday, May 8, 2006

Program: "Mazon Creek Fossils"   Our own Gene Hartstein told us about the assemblage of fossils at Mazon Creek.

 

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Our own Gene Hartstein presents to us on Mazon Creek fossils
Photo by Ken Casey
Insect Nymph specimen from Pit 11
(Gene Hartstein Collection)
Photo by Ken Casey
 

 

Program Review: At our May meeting, our own Gene Hartstein shared with us his collecting experiences on the Mazon Creek, Illinois fossil assemblages. 

 

Thanks, Eric and Gene for bringing us such a thorough and intriguing look into the fossil concretions of Mazon Creek!

[Ken Casey]

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Gene's own collection from Mazon Creek

 

Links

Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois (ESCONI)

Fossils of Mazon Creek (Illinois State Museum)

The Field Museum (Chicago, IL)

A Few Illustrations of Concretions by R. V. Dietrich

Siloam Springs Earth Science Club

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Mazon Creek

 

 

Past Programs

"Pearls" by Nancy Marks

"Mines & Minerals of Rush, Arkansas" by Eric Meier

"Faceting" by Tom Pankratz

Eric Meier's North American Collecting Locales

Holiday Party & Silent Auction

Joey Hatcher's "Maastrichtian Dinosaur Ecology of the Hell Creek Formation of Eastern Montana"

The Geology of Turkey

How to Buy & Sell on E-Bay

Ed Rowse's Trips to Peru, Ukraine & CA

Irenee du Pont Mineral Museum, U. of D.

Larry Krause's Collection

"Rhodochrosite: Red Treasure of the Rockies"

Don Miller's "Fossilpalooza!"

Eric Meier's "Tool Time at the Rock Club"

 

This page last updated:  December 24, 2007 04:41:21 PM

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