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Memphis Archaeological and Geological Society
Contact: W.C. McDaniel, Show Chairman
2038 Central Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104 [USA]
901.274.7706 • w.c.mcd@worldnet.att.net |
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MAGS News Highlights
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UPCOMING MAGS EVENTS
01.05.12 -- 6:30pm -- MAGS Board Meeting: St. Francis Hospital
01.13.12 -- 7:30pm -- MAGS Membership Meeting/Holiday Party: Shady Grove Presbyterian Church
01.14.12 -- Volunteer Day: C.H. Nash Museum, Chucalissa
Important Note: Non-members are not permitted to participate in any MAGS field trips. This includes all areas: public, private collecting, and pay sites. No exceptions. FROM THE JANUARY 2012MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Two Great Programs at the January Members Meeting
01.05.12: MIKE BALDWIN: Don't miss the January Membership Meeting. The Adult Program will be on fluorescent minerals presented by Alan Schaeffer. While the adults are enjoying Alan's program, the youth will be learning how to clean and care for fossils during a program presented by Sherri Baldwin. So, kids bring your parents to the January meeting. They will have plenty to keep them busy while you are enjoying the youth program. >>Read more in the January Rockhounds News >>
FROM THE DECEMBER 2011 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Texas Ammonites
12.04.2011: MIKE BALDWIN: Three MAGS members recently traveled to Cooke County, Texas, to collect ammonite fossils. This area of Texas is one of the few places in the world where fossil ammonites are plentiful on the
surface. >>Read more in the December Rockhounds News >>
FROM THE NOVEMBER 2011 MAGS FIELD TRIP
MAGS Visits the Wells Creek Impact Crater
11.19.2011: MIKE BALDWIN: Thanks to Marc Mueller for organizing and Marvin Berwin for leading an awesome field trip to Wells Creek Basin Impact Crater, Cumberland City, TN on November 19. About a dozen MAGS members [including 4 brand new members who drove all the way from Atlanta] enjoyed a very educational day of touring and shattercone collecting. >> Read about this and other events in the November Rockhounds News >>
FROM THE OCTOBER 2011 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Modern Carbonate Sediments
10.01.2011: DR. R.P. MAJOR: Modern lime (CaCO3) sediments are currently being deposited in shallow-water tropical and subtropical marine environments.>>Read more in the October Rockhounds News >>
FROM THE SEPTEMBER 2011 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Petra: Valley of the Crescent Moon
09.01.2011: MATTHEW LYBANON: Petra, meaning rock, is a popular ruined city in Jordan that is famous for its rockcut architecture. It was made popular in numerous films but become especially well-known in “Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade” (1989). >>Read more in the September Rockhounds News >>
FROM THE AUGUST 2011 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Special Field Trip to North Carolina
08.08.2011: CHARLES HILL: This is the next installment for the North Carolina trip. The featured site is the Sheffield Ruby Mine. If you watch The Travel
Channel you may have seen this mine as one of their places to seek treasure.>>Read more in the August Rockhounds News >>
FROM THE JULY 2011 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Special Field Trip to North Carolina
07.08.2011: MATTHEW LYBANON: A special week-long field trip is in the planning satage for next year [June 16-24, 2012]. If you are a MAGS member, you can attend the entire week of events or pick and choose the ones you are interested in attending. >>Read more in the July Rockhounds News >>
FROM THE JUNE 2011 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Fluorite in Kentucky
06.08.2011: MATTHEW LYBANON: Fluorite (often called spar or fluorospar) is a mineral whose crystal system is isometric with cubic crystals, more often massive. It has excellent octahedral cleavage, and may be broken into triangular-faced fragments. Its color may be white, purple, green, yellow, or brown, and its hardness is 4.0. >>Read more about fluorite in the June Rockhounds News >>
FROM THE MAY 2011 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
2011 Rock Show Was A Success
05.08.2011: MATTHEW LYBANON: If you missed the 2011 show you missed a good one. If you attended the show, a great big thank you from the members of the club. If your or your child[ren] had pictures taken with the dinosaur, you can view them or download them from our flickr blog: >>Click here to visit the earth wide open on flickr >>
FROM THE APRIL 2011 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Welcome to the 2011 Memphis
Mineral Fossil and Jewlery Show
04.01.2011: >>Click here to read more about the show >>
FROM THE MARCH 2011 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Wells Creek Impact Crater
03.03.2011: MATTHEW LYBANON: Sometime between 100 and 300 million years ago, a violent event occurred in what is now Wells Creek Basin in Stewart and Houston Counties of Central Tennessee. A bright light appeared
and streaked southward across the sky. A meteorite, traveling 10 to 25 miles per second (36,000 to 90,000 mph), struck the earth with a shuddering impact, accompanied by a supersonic air blast, and penetrated to a depth of 2,000 feet. >>Click here to read more>>
FROM THE FEBRUARY 2011 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Blue Spring Fossils
02.03.2011: MIKE BALDWIN: The remains of perhaps a two dozen species of lobster, crab and ghost shrimp may be found in the outcropping sandy clay beds near Blue Springs, MS. Learn more about these fossils in this month's issue of Rockhound News. >>Click here to read more>>
FROM THE JANUARY 2011 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
A look back at 2010 in news stories
01.14.2011: MIKE BALDWIN: George Phillips, Curator of Paleontology at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science with be our speaker in February. If you have fossil finds from Blue Springs, Mississippi that you would like to have identified, bring them to the meeting. In this month's issue of Rockhound News we look back at 2010 in new stories. >>Click here to read more>>
FROM THE DECEMBER 2010 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
A look back at 2010 in pictures
12.03.2010: MIKE BALDWIN: This issue of Rockhound News offers a look back at 2010 in pictures from MAGS activities throughout the year. >>Click here to read more>>
FROM THE NOVEMBER 2010 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Pictures from recent MAGS events
11.11.2010: MIKE BALDWIN: This is a busy time in the life of the Memphis Archaeological and Geological Society. Two big events in October were "Memphis Rocks" at the Memphis Botanic Gardens and the October field trip[s] to middle Tennessee to collect geodes and fossils. >>Click here to read more>>
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TIPS AND TECHNIQUES
Aluminum foil your specimens
09.09.2007: Many people use newspaper or sheets of tissue to wrap their specimens in the field. Specimens wrapped in newspaper tend to become unwrapped in transport. Paper can also blow away. Give aluminum foil a try as a substitute for newspaper or tissue. It's lightweight; can be stored and transported in its original container and torn off as needed; and you can use as much or as little as you need to wrap your specimen. Try wrapping your specimen twice: wrap the first layer loosely, then add a second layer a bit tighter. This technique will leave provide a bit of a cushion for your specimen and help minimize damage in transport. If you have other collecting tips and techniques that you have found useful, drop MAGS an email and share them with others.
LAPIDARY PROJECT
A Basic Pendant Wirewrapping Lesson
08.15.2007: Jurnesse Farley has granted MAGS permission to share her web lesson on wirewrapping with you. Click here for a step-by-step lesson on how to make a basic wirewrapping pendant.
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On the MAGS blog
Topics on the MAGS blog include: Collecting petrified wood, Wells Creek Impact Crater, Frankstown fossils, Great Smoky Mountains geology, Tennessee geology, fluorescent minerals and meteorites. Drop by and check it out.
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"The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
–Marcel Proust (French Philosopher)
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
–Sir Edmund Hillary
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already in progress . . . Run."
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