 | | Journal (issue) | | 2572-7486 OF ARIZONA NOVEMBER 2017 The Rockhound Record, Volume 76, No. 9, November, 2017 CALCITE & ARAGONITE...is Loved 12 Page 13 Editors Corner 13 The Arizona Mineral Collector 14 October Meeting Highlights...Program 22 Mineral of the Month 2330 Kartchner Caverns 31 AMMNRE Museum FMF/ESM/RMFMS/AFMS 3237...Evan Jones about “How Wulfenite Became Official Arizona Mineral” was especially sweet as we had most of...in attendance to enjoy Evan’s accounts of the Arizona history they were a part of. Thank you, Evan, for |  | | Book | | Wonders of the ~ Natural World --« KARTCHNER CAVERNS How Two | a Cavers — Discovered - aes...University of Arizona . Press Tucson - _ NEIL MILLER For Paul Brouillette The University of Arizona Press...Friends of Kartchner Caverns. Kartchner Caverns State Park® is a registered trademark of Arizona State Parks...Discovery 3 Two Spelunkers 13 The Golden Age of Arizona Caving Exploring Xanadu 29 Playing for Time 51...Encountering the Kartchners 63 The Making of Kartchner Caverns SEVEN Lewis and Clark in Tucson EIGHT |  | | Journal (issue) | | KARTCHNER CAVERNS: MILLENNIA IN THE MAKING MARKS 45 YEARS DELIGHTING VISITORS THE EARTH’S TREASURES...Evidence of Commonality Among Cultures CORNWALL MINING “Cousin Jack’s” Early Impact ROCK & GEM • Vol....(PART I) From Marine Shells to Millefiori 40 EARLY MINING IN ENGLAND’S CORNWALL A History of Hard Work and...Voynick Bob Jones 32 CLUB CORNER 50 ARIZONA’S KARTCHNER CAVERNS Inspiring Vistas and Adventures Antoinette...BD10 Power Feed Trim Saw Scan for Video MADE IN USA Features include: • All cast aluminum tank, table |  | | Book (edition) | | found in Arizona. In the twelve years since then 61 more minerals have been reported from Arizona, a number...change. 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[6] Nimmo...VLASSOPOULOS2 1 University of California, Merced, CA 95340 USA (*correspondence: poday@ucmerced.edu) 2 S.S. Papadopulos...Papadopulos & Associates, Portland OR 97204 USA Reactive amendments optimized for specific (bio)geochemical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | climate proxies calcite precipitation a b s t r a c t In general, the rate and timing of calcite precipitation...cave atmosphere, and composition of deposited calcite is needed to better understand geochemical records...from ancient speleothems. Links between modern calcite deposition and local temperature, rainfall, vegetation...to calcite (Spotl et al., 2005). Banner et al. (2007) were the first to directly quantify calcite deposition...cave air CO2 concentrations and suggest enhanced calcite deposition during periods of greater drip water |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the Marcellus Formation, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (USA) Mathur R., Jin L., Prush V., Paul J....floral zones and relative sea level, New Jersey, USA Kemp A.C., Vane C.H., Horton B.P., Engelhart S.E...drip water and speleothem calcite: A 10-year monitoring study, central Texas, USA Feng W., Banner J.L., Guilfoyle...dripwater, and stalagmite geochemistry in Guam, USA Partin J.W., Jenson J.W., Banner J.L., Quinn T.M...of Bacterial Communities On Calcite Formations in Kartchner Caverns, AZ, USA Legatzki A., Ortiz M., Neilson |  | | Journal (issue) | | Enthralled by Turquoise and a Rich Family History of Mining REGULAR COLUMNS Field Notes ....................Bruce McKay By Helen Serras-Herman Carlsbad Caverns Expanding on a Hypotheses About Amygdale Pseudomorphs...995 00 complete Free shipping in continent USA Made in USA Grit Sizes 60 to 200,000 1.0" hole with...with 3/4", 5/8" & 1/2" bushings Our made in USA soft wheels will last you 3-4 times longer than imported...olorado has been mining gold even before the region became a territory and is still mining it today. In fact |  | Breecker, Daniel O., Payne, Ashley E., Quade, Jay, Banner, Jay L., Ball, Carolyn E., Meyer, Kyle W., Cowan, Brian D. (2012) The sources and sinks of CO2 in caves under mixed woodland and grassland vegetation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 96. 230-246 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.08.023 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Sciences, United States b University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, United States Received...caves in central Texas and one cave in southern Arizona in order to identify CO2 sources and sinks. The...variations in CO2 concentrations occurred in the Arizona cave and no seasonal or spatial variation in the...isotope composition of groundwater and speleothem calcite used for paleoclimate records are therefore likely...dissolved in cave waters and thus the precipitation of calcite according to the following reactions: Speleothems |  | | Journal (issue) | | West Federation Show July 18 through 21 Jefferson County Fairgrounds Port Towsend WA Dealer Inquiries Welcome...Information; by Steve Voynick 34 A Hotbed of Mining Copper was king in Butte, Montana; by Roger McPherson...rockgemmag@aol.com Cabs, Cabs and More Cabs Gem Center USA Inc. has one of the world's largest selection of...stone, in any shape and in any size. Gem Center USA is also one of the leading distributors of quality...type of stone you are looking for ... Gem Center, USA Inc. is your source. 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The data were kept by the...9 shows the δ18O composition of a theoretical calcite speleothem precipitated under equilibrium conditions...(e.g., McDermott et al., 2011), the change in calcite oxygen isotopes 166 D. Domínguez-Villar et al...Eagle Cave temperature changes in a synthetic δ18O calcite record (black bold line). The calculations consider...line shows the theoretical δ18O composition of a calcite speleothem with constant cave temperature. The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The rate of the breakdown reaction dolomite = calcite + periclase + CO2 was measured experimentally at...mixture of vaterite and calcite but dissolved silica promotes the formation of calcite. It can be assumed...production and dissolution of earthworm excreted calcite DENISE C. LAMBKIN AND MARK E. HODSON* Dept. Soil...carbonate comprising aggregates of rhombahedral calcite grains. If one looks closely the granules also...soils from which we had removed existing earthworm calcite granules. After 28 days freshly produced granules |  | Baldini, James U.L., McDermott, Frank, Baldini, Lisa M., Ottley, Chris J., Linge, Kathryn L., Clipson, Nicholas, Jarvis, Kym E. (2012) Identifying short-term and seasonal trends in cave drip water trace element concentrations based on a daily-scale automatically collected drip water dataset. Chemical Geology, 330. 1-16 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.08.009 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | resembles seasonal trends observed in stalagmite calcite at other sites. Because the Sr minima and P maxima...limited. Several studies suggest that stalagmite calcite Mg and Sr concentrations effectively constrain...Geology 330–331 (2012) 1–16 of CO2 and subsequent calcite precipitation in fissures overlying the cave. 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Furthermore the low-magnesium calcite that forms most speleothems is known to be a thermodynamically...unlikely to be important, at least in dense, columnar calcite fabrics. Developing methodologies for the correction...Broken speleothems, fallen blocks with subsequent calcite growth, sudden changes in growth angles of speleothems...(2000) who obtained an Upper Cretaceous age on calcite spar from the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico...alternating layers of spelean calcite (terrestrial exposure) and serpulid worm calcite (seawater submergence) |  | Carlson, Peter E., Noronha, Alexandra L., Banner, Jay L., Jenson, John W., Moore, Mark W., Partin, Judson W., Deininger, Michael, Breecker, Daniel O., Bautista, Kaylyn K. (2020) Constraining speleothem oxygen isotope disequilibrium driven by rapid CO2 degassing and calcite precipitation: Insights from monitoring and modeling. 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