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generally meets the third Wednesday of each month, August through May. For Fall 2023, we are meeting at Boal Hall (Boalsburg Fire Hall, 113 East Pine St., Boalsburg PA 16827). Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/gtHjdzUgXbN9b5J8A All are welcome to attend our meetings! Parents must provide supervision of minors. Mineral collectors and rockhounds, earth scientists and dinosaur lovers will all enjoy our activities. |
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September 20th regular meeting (rescheduled from May) by Kayla Irizarry, Mark Patzkowsky, Kimberly Lau Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University Boal Hall (Boalsburg Fire Hall), 113 East Pine St, Boalsburg PA 16827 Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/gtHjdzUgXbN9b5J8A 7:45 to 8:00 p.m.: Announcements, door prizes, sales about 8:00 p.m.: featured program The event has free admission, free refreshments and free parking (lot just east of Fire Hall along East Pine St.), and is open to all; parents/guardians must provide supervision of minors. Bring your friends and share an interesting evening. No Zoom or recording this time; please join us in person! The Cambrian explosion was a profound diversification event which took place in the earliest half of the Cambrian; during this event most of the major groups of animals known from the modern and fossil record first evolved. Later in the Cambrian there was an unexplained “diversity plateau”, during which time diversity remained stagnant. Recent studies suggest that Cambrian oceans, particularly in deep water settings, maintained low oxygen conditions. Expansion of low oxygen conditions into shallow waters has been suggested as a trigger or contributing factor to the diversity plateau observed at the end of the Cambrian. In this talk, I will discuss the variety of life and environments of the Cambrian world and discuss whether oxygen played a key role in the early evolution of marine life. Thank you, everyone, for participating in our August Show and Tell! Photos of Jim Garthe's rock spheres and their custom metal holders are at Sphere-handout-1.pdf. Some online presentations of interest: -------------------------- From NMS: How to Study an Asteroid: Penn State's role in NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission (video) Dr. Kate Freeman's presentation: NMS April 2023 See also this news story. Geode Night - The Journey of the Mexican Geode, Las Choyas Geode Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico (video) Jeff Smith's presentation: NMS March 2023 A Modernized Stratigraphic Framework: Revising and Reconciling Stratigraphy Across Pennsylvania (video) Hailey Filippelli's presentation: NMS February 2023 Flintknapping 101 (video) Ken Burton's presentation: NMS September 2022 Show and Tell (video) presentation by NMS members and guests: NMS August 2022 Pennsylvania Caves: A Geological Overview (video) Dr. William B. White's presentation: NMS May 2022 Land and Geology of Pennsylvania, "A Portrait of our Commonwealth" (video) Dr. Robert Altamura's presentation: NMS April 2022 Applied Paleontology (video) Dr. Charles E. Miller, Jr.'s presentation: NMS February 2022 The Seven Metals of Antiquity That Forged the Modern World (video) Paul Fagley's presentation: NMS January 2022 Iris Agates and Cantor Dusts: The Textural Complexity of Agates (video) Dr. Peter Heaney's presentation NMS September 2021 Show and Tell (video) presented by the members NMS August 2021 "Evolution" of a Fossil – Arthrophycus alleghaniensis: The story of the "Jointed Seaweed" (video) Paul Fagley's presentation: NMS May 2021 Also see photo: variety of diameters of Arthrophycus Start to Finish: The Process of Mining to Selling New Mexico Thundereggs (video) Lori Lytle Coleman's presentation: NMS April 2021 Some related links: https://ssrockshop.com/ https://www.facebook.com/SpanishStirrupRockShop/ https://www.rockngem.com/getting-to-know-spanishstirrup-rock-shop/ Gembone: Gem Dino Bone (video) Daniel Bontempo's presentation: NMS March 2021 Caves and Karst: The Crossroads of the Geosciences (video) Dr. George Veni's presentation: NMS February 2021 Some related links: IYCK website, National Cave and Karst Research Institute website, Karst Information Portal, International Union of Speleology website, UIS Facebook page, UIS Twitter account, and/or the new UIS Instagram page. Dinosaurs of Pennsylvania: What we know about them and their neighbors (video) Dr. Steven E. Jasinski's presentation: NMS January 2021 Spherical Structures in Rhyolite (video) Daniel Bontempo's presentation: NMS December 2020 Making the Case for Celestine as the Pennsylvania State Mineral (video) Dr. Peter Heaney's presentation: NMS November 2020 -------------------------- Jeri Jones' Zoom Rock Room: Weekly Zoom geology presentations, mostly related to Pennsylvania. Go to http://jonesgeo.com/ and click on 'Zoom Rock Room' at top of right-hand column, where you can regsiter to be included. The staff of the Penn State Earth & Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Gallery is actively adding interesting material to their Facebook page while the museum is closed. Several posts were added for Earth Science Week (October 11 - 17) and National Fossil Day. They also have several videos on their YouTube channel: Celestine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxIHQ-NUVWY The Obelisk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyj31OC7-8k Halite: https://youtu.be/2jI9kfgI7Qk Pyrite disease: https://youtu.be/KERTNMR_Y9Y National Fossil Day October 14, 2020 Earth Science Week October 11-17 The National Park Service's National Fossil Day was Wednesday, October 14. National Fossil Day was right in the middle of Earth Science Week, October 11 - 17, 2020, celebrating the theme "Earth Materials in Our Lives." Educational materials are available. As of December, the EFMLS web site has a video of a Bob Jones presentation, Wulfenite - My Favorite Mineral. Go to EFMLS.org and scroll down a couple of screens to find it. Watch a professionally recorded story of dinosaur fossil excavation in Colorado. As of October, videos of the 2020 Dallas Mineral Collecting Symposium are still available by following the links at www.dallassymposium.org. We have a new online video presentation for summer 2020, thanks to Dr. Andrew Sicree: Nicolaus Steno, the most important scientist you've never heard of (the father of mineralogy, crystallography, geology, and paleontology). It is in two parts on YouTube (improved audio clarity in this presentation); to view it, use each of the following links: Part 1 Part 2 Our May 2020 program by Dr. Sicree is still available: Fluorite: The Fourth Mineral Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Weekly Junior Rockhounds Meetings have been postponed. We continue to monitor the situation. Watch this web site for any updates. VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS, TOURS, GALLERIES, COURSES, MORE! With thanks for many of these to AFMS April 2020 Newsletter and Three Rivers Gem & Mineral Society of Fort Wayne Indiana's The Strata Data newsletter. Smithsonian Scroll down to see the tips before starting a tour. Yale - Peabody Museum of Natural History Via Rock & Gem magazine web site (thanks go to them); scroll down to find the image that links to the tour. South Dakota School of Mines & Technology - Mosasaur at Museum of Geology Scroll down to 'YouTube Playlist" Houston Museum of Natural Science Dinosaurs! Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks & Minerals Society of Mineral Museum Professionals (SMMP) Curator's Pick Gallery Curators choose their favorite specimens. Hosted by Mindat. SMMP Wulfenite Gallery Geology of the National Parks Penn State GEOSC 10 virtual field trips American Southwest Virtual Museum Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules Click on Displays at upper right Davidson Institute of Science Education, of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, has links to several more museum virtual tours worldwide, including natural history museums. Podcast of GEOL-101 type lectures (podcasts #1 to 28). Videos linked from the web site also; all by Nick Zentner of Central Washington University. For additional current news see our NMS Bulletin (link at top of sidebar at left). |
 NMS has in stock T-shirts in Galapagos blue, Texas orange (both shown here) and royal blue. 
A station at our Minerals Junior Education Day 
2020: CELESTINE: Pennsylvania State Mineral?See also Nov. 2020 Bulletin. 
Collecting crystals in a quarry 
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