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Register kids now for
Minerals Junior Education Day, March 25. Registration has been extended through March 23.
April 19th regular meeting:
Meteorite organics, Asteroid Bennu and the OREX Mission
ON ZOOM OR WITH THE GROUP at Boal Hall (Boalsburg Fire Hall),
113 East Pine St, Boalsburg PA 16827
Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/gtHjdzUgXbN9b5J8A
7:15 to 7:45 p.m.: Social “hour.” We will serve some refreshments - snacks and a few beverages - or feel free to bring your own non-alcoholic beverage.
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.
We hope you will join us in person, but if you can’t, the Zoom link will be e-mailed to all paid members who receive our e-mails.
Others are welcome to request it by e-mailing the webmaster.
We expect to record the presentation for later posting to our web site. -Editor
Some online presentations of interest:
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From NMS:
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
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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).
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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
We have NMS
posters for sale!
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