 | | Book (edition) | | types of agate, opal and petrified this region is noted. The agate is wood for which believed...collectors because a many material others of the Texas ranches are closed few carted away agate by the...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900...Siding in St. Clair County, 20 miles northeast of Bir- mingham. One found in Lee County in 1901 weighs 4^ |  | | Journal (issue) | | .................. 20 A Report on the Harrison County Gem and Mineral Society of Gulfport, Mississippi...trips to Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mexico, and within Texas. You are truly one of the greatest Gem and Mineral...Pulaski County, Arkansas through Garland, Montgomery and Polk counties, then into McCurtain County, Oklahoma...Holbrook 1950 Titanium ore deposits of Hot Spring County, Arkansas. Arkansas Geological Survey Bulletin...Fadden quartz of the Stand on Your Head mine, Saline County, Arkansas. The author, Memphis, TN. Miser, H. D |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Allamakee County, cia. 1912. John Taylor collection. ARTHUR E . SMITH 9118 Concho Street Houston, Texas 77036...Iowa Geological Survey. Localities by County Allamakee County Lansing, Lansing lead mines = Captain...smithsonite, sphalerite (Hey1 and West 1982). Appanoose County Centerville gypsum mine; abandoned underground... Vernon, Van Buren Co. Coralville, Johnson Co. County Fairgrounds, Dubuque Co. Cresco, Howard Co. Decorah...Farmington, Van Buren Co. Fort Dodge, Webster Co. Four County quarry, Johnson Co. Georgia Pacific Corporation |  | | Book | | Columbia Dinosaur-Capitalsaurus fo, Fossil-Petrified Wood * Arkansas Gem-Diamond * Florida Gem-Moonstone...Louisiana Gemstone-Agate Fossil-Petrified Palmwood aD 60 Stone-Petrified Wood Fossil-Prehistoric Whale Soil-Natchez...90 90 91 91 a2 * North Dakota Fossil-Jeredo Petrified Wood 111 * Ohio Gemstone-Ohio Flint Invertebrate...Granite 106 107 128 128 * Washington Gem-Petrified Wood Fossil-Columbian Mammoth * South Dakota Mineral-Rose...thoracica Mineral-Agate *Wexas Gem-Blue Topaz Stone-Petrified Palmwood Precious Metal-Silver Dinosaur-Paluxysaurus |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................444 Texas .................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map .......................................... |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Section Reports - Archaeology 4 Petrified Wood—Official State Stone of Texas 5 Featured Member: Charlie... THE BACKBENDER’S GAZETTE PETRIFIED WOOD—OFFICIAL STATE STONE OF TEXAS from Stoney Statements 09/2007...09/2020 Texas designated petrified palmwood as the official state "stone" in 1969. Petrified wood is actually...than a prehistoric wood, and it is called the most beautiful of fossils. Petrified wood is also the state...of North Dakota and Louisiana. What is now arid Texas was a lush tropical forest 100 million years ago |  | | Report (issue) | | Jeffry Schabilion provided information on petrified wood. My wife Claudia and my children Jon and Joan...Bookends made from Cordaites petrified wood. C. Small log of Cordaites petrified wood that is principally calcite...iron sulfide. D. Close-up of polished Cordaites wood. 19 6) A. Calcite cone-in-cone structure........... B. Nodule of "coldwater agate" from Benton County showing gray and white chalcedony and crystalline...made from "coldwater agate" material of Keokuk County............................................... |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in fairly nice specimens in an old road bed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, Ala...of Milledgeville who discovered them in Baldwin County, Ga., between the State Sanitarium and Oconee River...Adams St., Marion, Ind., sent in a couple of petrified coral specimens which he had found. The specimens...picked these up near a gravel deposit in Grant County, Indiana, near the city of Marion."—on label. I...of a lifetime! West Bend is located in Palo Alto County, about 50 miles west of Mason City, south of U |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................380 Texas ..................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...Randolph, Tallapoosa, and parts of Chilton, Elmore, and Lee counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................380 Texas ..................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...Randolph, Tallapoosa, and parts of Chilton, Elmore, and Lee counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a |  | | Book | | topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...sediments across the level plains Agates and petrified wood fragments as well as specimens of hundreds...small workbench on 11 put a vIse, grinding wheels, a wood block, a tool rack, and a bright lamp Workshops...workshop 1 The vIse the wood block, and the grinding wheel are v1s1ble while a taller wood block stands at one...securely so they won 't work loose later. Keep the wood block protected from bad weather and ground dampness |  | | Journal (issue) | | Island Agatized Coral ARIZONA DoBell Ranch Petrified Wood • Patagonia Vanadinite • Orange Butte Fire...Display until Nov. 11, 2013 www.rockngem.com TEXAS Stillwell Ranch Agates • Woodward and Ritchie Ranch...Holbrook, Arizona, is a source of “rainbow” petrified wood from the Chinle Formation. This 4.75 lb. specimen...Bend Country Bonanza.................30 Collecting Texas agates at Stillwell Ranch by Bob Jones by Kenneth... A quest for Arizona’s wonderful, colorful petrified wood You don’t have to leave your hobby at home |  | | Book (volume) | | Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah Also by Allan W. Eckert Bayou Backwaters...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text...under the heading of Nebraska, on the map of Sioux County, the site x How to Use This Book indicated...Crawford in adjoining Dawes County and 5 miles south of Ardmore in Fall River County, South Dakota): 0.5 mile | | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Report (issue) | | ¥ TEXAS ROCKS AND \ r - An Amateur’s Guide ;s ROSELLE M. GIRARD A b OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY V N IVERSITY...The University of Texas Austin, Texas Peter T. Flawn, Director Guidebook 6 TEXAS ROCKS AND MINERALS............................................. Petrified wood .............................................Rock identification charts Descriptions of some Texas rocks and minerals Anhydrite .....................Composition, hardness, and specific gravity of some Texas minerals Pace 25 26 39 40 43 43 43 44 45 46 47 |  | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Fankboner, Burnaby, BC; James P. Flohr, Burnett Petrified Wood, Lebanon, OR; Dr. Eric Fritzsch, South Dakota...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy |
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