 | | Journal (issue) | | Letter by Steve Blyskal all seems to be coming to Texas, just in time this year. I told Sigrid I credit... Now it is actually raining across much of the Texas Gulf Coast as I write this letter. Never thought.......................... 3 Old Geezer—More On Smithville ...................................................... 6 Some Interesting Paleozoic Sharks of Texas ..................................................ovember 22--To be announced A Old Geezer—More On Smithville by John Emerson Member of the Houston Gem & Mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Texas mineral locality INDEX Whereas Texas is well known for its vastness, cattle industry, and oil...I T S T O P O G R A P H Y A N D G E O L O G Y , Texas, the second largest state, has produced relatively...famous localities. A s this article will show, Texas has had—or currently has—nu merous mineral occurrences...produce good specimens; yet when specimens from Texas are sought in collections and dealers' stocks, few...some basic facts that help explain the situation. Texas has very little federal land in its mineralized |  | | Report (issue) | | Professional Paper 126 GEOLOGY OF THE COASTAL PLAIN OF TEXAS WEST OF BRAZOS RIVER BY ALEXANDER DEUSSEN WASHINGTON... . . . . . . . 37 Section at Maxwell, Caldwell County.................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . 41 Section near Elgin, Bastrop County .................... , ................ : ...Sections on Leon Creek and Medina River, Bexar County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .................... 47 Section at Rockdale, Milam County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (issue) | | been a year of calamities for the country, and Texas has not had an exemption from this. Many people...who live near Bastrop have so far been spared losses, and the Rock Shop near Smithville was just outside...Buchanan, agates in Falcon Reservoir and petrified palm wood in Choke Canyon are just a few of the areas...has been some rain in the Big Bend area of West Texas, which improves the agate hunting out that way....rockhound and fossil field trips across the state of Texas. Keep an eye peeled for fires though. I’ll report |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard...Sevier County (Coskren and Lauf 2000). The following index is arranged alphabetically by county. It is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rather peculiar designs. "The first I call the petrified doughnut. It is round and quite smooth, with a...handle, horse's hoof, a discoidal, pieces of petrified wood, heads of pixie or gnome, probably with a long...the uniformed sometimes really think these are petrified objects. "Of course I am not just sure how this...which later dissolved away. Chert in northern "Petrified Doughnut" Found near Smirhville, Lawrence Co....wrong. I found this about sixteen years ago, near Smithville, Lawrence Co., Arkansas. It will weigh about |  | | Journal (issue) | | of tamped mud. The excellent preservation of the wood has allowed the precise dating of the intact structures...Austin on State Highway 71, about 5 miles north of Smithville you will see a Chevron station. Slow down, and...jewelry, stone inlay boxes, and local Bastrop area petrified wood, including palm. For the last three years...Little Gallery and Rock Shop 125 Kellar Rd. #C6 Smithville, TX 78957 (512) 237-3635 Open Wednesday through...are no lines, and you can vote anywhere in Harris County (or Ft. Bend, or other counties). Go to Harrisvotes |  | | Journal (issue) | | from Oklahoma and over 200 lbs. of petrified wood from South Texas, all needing cleaning or slabbing....Rock Shop and Gallery on Highway 71 outside of Smithville to see what new things Lorraine had obtained...and a fine selection of polished Indonesian petrified wood at very fair prices. The following day I visited...Barksdale location, about 50 miles north of Uvalde, Texas on the Nueces River. Jon made clear that what are...collected them for over 50 years, mostly in Harris County. This was very helpful and important, and Terry |  | | Journal (issue) | | in the first place. And if you want to know the county (foreign money orders demand it), it is Westchester...east of Asheboro, in the southern part of Randolph County, North Carolina, is a prominence that rises above...the little town of Murfreesboro, the county seat of Pike County, Ark., as we ,vanted to visit the nearby...take11 by the two collecton. 1-DiHIOn4 IIMIIC~. 2-Petrified ttiood near Ri41e. 3--CMC.tcle Cavern . 4-8alance4...ot1ce Texas' 1reate■t Mineral locality. Not wi■itecl • locality i■ now under water. 352 sas-Texas border |  | | Journal (issue) | | write this, and spring is coming to Houston and to Texas after a colder than usual winter. While some people’s...thoughts turn to romance or flowers in the spring, Texas rockhounds are itching to get in the field and do... I know people who have been to South Texas for petrified wood and agate. If you were here for the February...with their “stuff.” Do you store agates and petrified wood in milk crates on the back side of the house...mentioned that I had a maternal grandmother in Smithville, Texas, who owned a Funeral Home and Flower Shop—the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | selenite crystals and fossils in the Bastrop-Smithville area of eastern Texas on March 2, 1952. 176 ROCKS...the Ohio Oil Co. of Sidney and 1 from the Geuel County High School of Chappell, we spent the evening profitably...Rigney, Secretary; Mrs. Wilson, Treasurer. The 1952 Texas State Mineral Show which will be held in Fort Worth...for the Society 108 N. Commerce St. Fort Worth 2, Texas Georgia Mineral Society The January meeting of...reported briefly upon the weekend field trip to Brown County, Indiana, and Bloomington. This trip though poorly |  | | Book (volume) | | shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified wood. Ohio ranks first in the nation in the production...common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona agatized wood. This gem flint occurs in the 8 mile long Flint...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |  | | Book (volume) | | shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified wood. Ohio ranks first in the nation in the production...common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona agatized wood. This gem flint occurs in the 8 mile long Flint...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |  | | Book (volume) | | beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...banks, tributary gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes...slopes, stream beds, etc. petrified wood, wood opal; along the Grand R. though entire Co., regional...regional banks, breaks, gravels, etc. petrified wood, wood opal. 438 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state... IT'S FUN TO HUNT FOR GEMS and refreshing, a petrified pool never to be disturbed by wind or tide. Few...molecular cohesion in the crystal. It is like splitting wood along the grain. Cleavage cracks across the prism...amethyst. Lava and pumice also engulf trees. The wood burns away as the rock cools, leaving a mold in...substance may be replaced slowly by silica to form petrified wood. Lava is also the environment in which obsidian |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...plane of lesser molecular cohesion in the splitting wood along the grain. Cleavage cracks across the prism...lava is petrified wood by replacement of may form in the by decay or destruction of the wood. Agate...quarries. Some gems may also be dug from agate, petrified wood, crystals easily worked soil, disintegrated...quadrangles in upper New York state. Likewise, petrified bone and wood are associated in the Southwest with such |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..... 8 Middle Eocene Shark and Ray Fossils of Texas ..................................................Sulphur Springs, now called Wilson Springs in Garland County. Aside from some miserite and some exploratory...Frasch sulfur operations at Nash dome in Brazoria County. I saw some pieces I wanted and so managed to liberate...NOVEMBER 2006 Middle Eocene Shark and Ray Fossils of Texas by Albert J. Robb III HGMS Paleo Section Member...early as 1846, the middle Eocene Claiborne Group of Texas was recognized as containing abundant marine fossils |  | | Report (volume) | | BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, Sidney F. 1920. A replacement of wood by dolomite: Jour. Geology, vol. 28, pp. 356-365...correction: Torreya, vol. 34, p. 46. 1936. Chehalis fossil wood: Mineralogist, vol. 4, no. 7, p. 22. 1936a. Crooked...ser., vol. 84, pp. 367-368. 1936d. Black Hills petrified cycad forest: Mineralogist, vol. 4, no. 11, pp...41, pp. 831-834. 1924. Problem of identifying the wood of Cretaceous and later dicotyledons; Paraphyllanthoxylon...figs. 1931. A contribution to the Eocene of Texas: Texas Agr. and Mech. College Bull., 4th ser., vok |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic...stream beds and the rocks the stream Agates and petrified wood fragments as well as specimens of hundreds...hold put a vise, grinding wheels, a it them wood block, a and a bright lamp. Workshops vary according |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pinheiro. An:elope Valley Branch, Los Angeles County Library, Lancaster, CaliforMay 1-3—Fourteenth Annual...demons—surrounded by the faces of tortured souls —all petrified in flame-colored rock. All sense of reality is... the Dinosaurs, Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Petrified Sheep, Woodchuck Conference, Twin Toadstools,...ARDIS WALKER PRESIDENT TRONA—Ardis M. Walker, Kern County supervisor and descendent of gold rush pioneers...Harry E. Lee of Lone Pine, Seth Droubay of Inyo County, R. R. Henderson of Ontario, Mrs. George Palmer |  | | Journal (issue) | | Huizing, 534 I Thrasher Dr, Cincinnati OH 45247 USA Please, make checks payable to Mineralogical Almanac...1907, Endicott discoYered amazon stone in Custer County, aquamarine and rose quartz at the Wild Rose claim...(later known as the Devils Hole pegmatite), Fremont County and facetable almandine garnets near Canon City...Richland County, Wisconsin. He married Effie I. circa 1890 in Wisconsin and moved to Rye, Pueblo county, Colorado... and Rosebud lode claims, all located north of Texas Creek in the Devils Hole topographic basin, and |  | | Book | | through Itasca and St. Louis Counties into Lake County. Hibbing is about the center of this historic area...replaced by dark hematite. Near Calumet in Itasca County abundant mollusks, arthropods, and sharks teeth...Iron Range is mostly in Crow Wing County, extending into Aitkin County. In 1936, near the town of Crosby...Superior 14 EVELETHO IRON WEEWATIN _W 57 LOWS COUNTY to Duluth Y The Mesabi Iron Range dump. Binghamite...found in veins at the west end of Loon Lake in Cook County. Uv BSL 0U/Sac0 CARLTON CO Island Lake go |  | | Journal (issue) | | .............. 3 Spring Collecting Trip to the Texas Hill Country .....................................and desserts. I Spring Collecting Trip to the Texas Hill Country by Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Member... knew that making a collecting trip to central Texas May 12–18 might be pushing my luck a bit as far...check out some piles of rubble stockpiled in the county park just north of Black Rock State Park, but there...went to one of his pegmatite prospects in Burnet County. Initially he had found some monazite-(Ce) crystals |  | | Report (issue) | | described, from the Pliocene near Sommerville, Fayette County, Tennessee, Salix densinervis, Quercus saffordi...1887, U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 37, 65. Ball, 1931, Texas Agr. and Mech. Coll., Bull., 4th ser., vol. 2, no...text-!., Oct. 30, 1937. - - The petrifaction of wood: Mineralogist, vol. 9, no. 9, 323-324, 363-355,...structure of silicified tree ferns from southern Texas (abs. ): Amer. Jour. Botany, vol. 24, no. 10, 743...Apr. 1937. - - Hints on geode formation, Wyoming wood tells a story: Mineralogist, vol. 12, no. 9, 271 |  | | Book (volume) | | extensive files. Photographs and information on the Petrified Forest National Monument were supplied by Fred...the Southern Gem and Mineral Company of El Paso, Texas. Information on the Virgin Valley opal deposits...L. Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri. The well-known Texas agate localities of the Alpine Region were described...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken |
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