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Memphis Archaeological and Geological Society
Contact: W.C. McDaniel, President
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
03.04.10 -- MAGS Board Meeting: St. Frances Hospital [St. Claire Room]
03.06.10 -- MAGS Field Trip: Potosi, MO [druse quartz]
03.12.10 -- MAGS Adult Program: Dr. Robert Connolly [Current Developments at C M Nash Museum, Chucalissa Indian Village]
03.12.10 -- MAGS Youth Program: Idajean Jordan [Gem Trees]
03.20.10 -- MAGS Field Trip: Nameless, TN [geodes]
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04.01.10 -- MAGS Board Meeting: St. Frances Hospital [St. Claire Room]
04.03.10 -- MAGS Field Trip: Marion,KY [fluorite]
04.09.10 -- MAGS Adult Program: WC McDaniel [The Show]
04.09.10 -- MAGS Youth Program: Kim Loveland [Antarctic Rock Box]
04.24-25.10 -- The Earth Wide Open Rock Show: AgriCenter, Memphis
Important Note: Non-members will not be permitted to participate in any MAGS field trips. This includes all areas: public, private collecting, and pay sites. No exceptions.
FROM THE MARCH 2010 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
It's What's Inside That Counts
03.04.2010: WC McDANIEL: “Geode” is a universally recognized term that transcends all levels of interest in rocks. Set up a geode cracker or saw at a rock show or crafts festival and a convoy of eyes, whether they belong to a geologist, the serious or casual collector or just curious onlookers, will gather and eagerly await the cracking or cutting of the geode to unveil its interior secrets. >>Click here to read more about geodes >>
FROM THE FEBRUARY 2010 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
La Brea Tar Pits
Rancho la Brea Tar Pool. Restoration by Chas. R. Knight for American Museum (N.Y.), 1921.
01.30.2010: MIKE BALDWIN: The La Brea Tar Pits are a famous cluster of tar pits around which Hancock Park was formed, in the urban heart of Los Angeles. Asphalt or tar (brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground in this area for tens of thousands of years. >>Click here to read more about the La Brea Tar Pits >>
FROM THE JANUARY 2010 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Chucalissa Indian Village
©2009 Photo by Andy Northern, Memphis, Tennessee. Used by permission.
01.01.2010: MIKE BALDWIN: CHUCALISSA (Choctaw word meaning “Abandoned House”) – The ruins of this native American town sit on the Mississippi bluff five miles south of downtown Memphis. At one time the population of Chucalissa could have been a thousand to fifteen hundred. >>Click here to read about MAGS involvement in Chucalissa Indian Village.>>
FROM THE DECEMBER 2009 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
2009 Christmas Party
12.06.2009: MIKE BALDWIN: The 2009 MAGS Christmas Party will be Friday, December 11 at 7:30 at Shady Grove Presbyterian Church. MAGS will provide the meat, table decorations and cutlery. You are requested to bring an entree or dessert. Members are asked not to bring a gift to exchange. MAGS will have bagged specimens available from the MAGS Collection [including the Theibold collection] as the gifts. You pay $10 for adults and $5 for children (14 and under) and sign up for the drawing of your name. When your name is called you will take a spin on the “Rocks around the Clock” and receive the bagged gift. Some of the gifts will have special prizes. In addition to your gift, you could win a free 1-year club membership, or a MAGS t-shirt, or an extra spin on Rocks Around the Clock. >>Click here to read the December issue of Rockhound News.>>
FROM THE NOVEMBER 2009 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
Battle of the goedes
11.08.2009: MATTHEW LYBANON: We love to see displays of good stuff you
have found. Displays are an important part of the monthly Membership Meetings, not an afterthought. People will now present their displays between the business meeting and the program. As a displan, bring your best geodes to the November meeting. >>Click here to learn more about geodes and displays.>>
FROM THE OCTOBER 2009 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
A whole lot of fossils in Texas
10.09.2009: WC McDANIEL: It started out with Dan’s co-worker stating “there are a whole lot of fossils’’ on my father-in-law’s place in Texas. Several months later and a seven hour drive from Memphis Dan and I arrived at location north of Denton and spent 2 days collecting “a whole of lot of fossils.” >>Click here to learn more about this Texas ammonite adventure.>>
FROM THE SEPTEMBER 2009 MAGS ROCKHOUND NEWS
On the road to pink dolomite of Black Rock, Arkansas
09.14.2009: WC McDANIEL: The number one reason rockhounds go to Black Rock is to collect its world famous pink dolomite. Pinkest of pink, the mineral is usually widely available and occasionally will have the nice calcite points and small chalcopyrite on the surface. >>Click here to learn more about MAGS recent adventure to Black Rock.>>
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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
" How to minimize the impact of a volcanic eruption
already in progress . . . Run."
–Anonymous
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