 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Texas mineral locality INDEX Whereas Texas is well known for its vastness, cattle industry, and oil...mineralogically. ARTHUR E . SMITH 9118 C o n c h o Houston, T e x a s 77036 IN S P I T E O F I T S T O P...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 few mineral...famous localities. A s this article will show, Texas has hadâor currently hasânu merous mineral occurrences...produce good specimens; yet when specimens from Texas are sought in collections and dealers' stocks, few |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PLS. 25-27 DECEMBER 4, 19 15 PROBLEM OF TH E TEXAS TERTIARY SANDS 1 BY E. T. DUMBLE (Read before the.......... 457 Descriptions of formations of east Texas...................................................which stretch entirely across the Coastal Plain of Texas, there is a narrow belt within which the outcrops...sands are present, unless it be on the Colorado River. On the Rio Grande the Fayette is overlain by the...Louisiana in 1869, visited some localities in east Texas, where hefoundthe extension of his Grand Gulf beds |  | | Report (issue) | | University of Texas Bulletin No. 1869: December 10, 1918 Okla. Geol Survey THE GEOLOGY OF EAST TEXAS By E...SECOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT AUSTIN. TEXAS. UNDER THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912 The benefits...the preservation of a free govern- ment. Sam Houston Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy...âPre-Cretaceous Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous^Comanchean Trinity Fredericksburg . Washita Comanchean Sections...Tertiary Introduction Tertiary Formations of East Texas Tertiary Sections Eocene Midway General Character |  | | Journal (issue) | | BACKBENDER'S GAZETTE The Newsletter of the Houston Gem & Mineral Society Houston, TX Volume XXXVI - No. 11 F November...Economic Geologyâs (BEG) Houston Core Repository, which is officially known as the Houston Research Center (HRC)...000 boxes of geologic cores and cuttings. The Houston, Austin, and Midland BEG core facilities have combined.......................................... 30 Petrified Wood End Table Project (Excerpt) .................intersection of Highway 59 (Southwest Freeway) and Sam Houston Parkway (Beltway 8). See the calendar inside the |  | | Book (volume) | | Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah lL JWNTOA SINVYGVNO SWNIOA -- S3YNSW3uL...Colorado, Louisicna, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, ind Utak by Allan âVV. Eckert AN AUTHORS GUILD...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...the heading of Arizona, on the map of Maricopa County, the site x How to Use This Book indicated |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | have been found are: Smith River, Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher...Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville and Webber Hill, El Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and...Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine... Tulare County. Other western localities are: Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.;...; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great Lakes diamond region is essentially the terminal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | unfortunate, for Prof. F. Romer, during his stay in Texas, remained several months at Fredericburg, which...explored, in some detail, the valley of the Trinity River, where the Jura exists also, and not only did...did he not recognize the Jurassic formation in Texas, but by a wrong determination of a Gryphoa, which...of the Jurassic deposits of New Mexico, near the Texas line, made in 1853, by the geologist of the Pacific...of a geological map of Texas in 1849, and three volumes of paleontology on Texas and Tennessee in 1852 |  | | 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...for the United Geological Survey IVIississippi river can be ordered from the U.S. Geological Surveys...from which the condition. precise in slppi river maps needed can be chosen are provided drawing...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | Absolute ate, dates Carbo11 /4 Continental shelf. Texas, sediments: t:mer), K. 0. 10996 Florida¡ Bullen...University Laboratory: Rusnak. G . A 04425 Texas. Atascosa County, water. Carrizo Sand: Pearson, F J_, Jr...J .. Jr. I 1499 Texas. Lampasas River terraces. shells: Cheatum. E. P. I 1348 Texas University laboratory...D . Jr. 06236 Chocta-.. County. map: Toulmin. L. D . 1)6256 Chocta-.. County. Quitman fault zone, reconnaissance...Tounelot, H A . 06226 Clar,e County. along State Highwa) 69 and County Highway 15, cross section Toulmin |  | | Book | | HARRIS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY EOLOGY of TEXAS Darwin Spearing KW 3 4028 05687 8482 HARRIS COUNTY PUBLIC...only APR 0 9 1997 ?//f(ff ROADSIDE feOLOGY of Texas Darwin Spearing MOUNTAIN PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY...ion Data Spearing, Darwin. Roadside geology of Texas / Darwin Spearing. p. cm. â (Roadside geology series...series.) Rev. ed. of: Roaside geology of Texas / Robert A. Sheldon. 1979 Includes bibliographical references...index. ISBN 0-87842-265-X 1. Geology Texas Guide-books. 2. TexasâDescription and travel 1981 Guide-books |  | | Book | | fifty states. Whether one hopes to unearth a petrified clam, find an imprint of an extinct fish skeleton...invertebrate animals, and plantsâincluding petrified wood. Jay Ellis Ransom, geologist and author of...across an obvious fossil. His âfindâ may be a petrified clam, an oyster shell, an imprint of part of a...fossil-hunting localities, organized by state, county, township, section, or other landmark, together...were found. As an article of commerce, however, petrified animal remains had no observable useful place |  | | Book | | cracks and fissures appear. As they wash down to the river beds and sea, the minerals that are the heaviest...action of a million years is readily apparent. The river deposited the minerals IN THE BEGINNING 9 Chart...perfectly obvious that the garnets had washed into the river valley from the hills about, and that the flatland...famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...specimens have also been found in Arkansas, New Mexico, Texas, LItah and Vermont. Oligoclase presents itself in |  | | Report (issue) | | ÂĽ TEXAS ROCKS AND \ r - An Amateurâs 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | XXV. A, Strata of lower Jackson age along Wolf River near Memphis, Tenn.; B, Near view of the strata...Ze1tglodonXXVII. A, Acrosticlmm a1treum along Caloosahatchee River, Fla.; B, Mangroves in Bermuda, showing the character...and relation of the geologic formations in the Texas area-----------------------------------------~-... and C. 0 . L~ B~ker for . collections from Texas and to Messrs. E. N. Lowe, G. C. Matson, L. W. Stephenson...that now forrns the States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Alabn.ma, Tennessee, and :Mississippi. The limits |  | | 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...Jeanne Gurski, Jeanneâs Rock & Jewelry, Southeast Houston, TX; Dr. George E. Harlow, American Museum of | | | Book | | Geological Survey and for areas east of the M1ss1ssIpp1 river can be ordered from the U S Geological Survey's...Virginia 22202 Those for areas west of the M1ssIssIppI river can be ordered from the D1str1butIon Center Geological...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...and Illinois come togeth er near the M1ssissipp1 river. In the banks of the streams, geodes Iii led with |  | | Book (edition) | | happens. Storms rearrange coastlines and rework river channels. Earthquakes, volcanoes, windstorms, and...the air constantly rusts iron and Agates and petrified wood are often the first additions to a rockhoundâs...hard to imagine. Try to picture the Mississippi River under flooding conditions that happen once every...scale. Now imagine the resulting gravel bars as the river recedes from flood stage and think about the possibility...without a paleontological permit, but leaves, petrified wood, and insects are all there for the collecting |  | | Journal (issue) | | Immel , President (SCFMS) P.O. Box 94, Castell , Texas 78631 Mrs. W . H. Steinbrenner, Vice-President (MFMGS)...Elmo Wilson, President Route 5, Box 577, Longview, Texas 75601 A Microfossil Bonanza by Erma R. Britton...Bondstone, Dallas. Texas 7561B Mrs. Gwyn Bazzell, Secretary P.O. Box 225, Longview, Texas 75601 Mrs. Vlola...Smith, Treasurer 1215 South 41st Street. Temple. Texas 76501 DEPARTMENTS GEMS & MINERALS is published...SCFMS - Ruel E. Brown, Rt. 8, Box 680, Fort Worth, Texas 76108 FEDERATION SHOWS May 5 thru 7. SOUTH CENTRAL |  | | 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 | | | Book (volume) | | Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Fankboner, Burnaby, BC; James P. Flohr, Burnett Petrified Wood, Lebanon, OR; Dr. Eric Fritzsch, South Dakota...Services, Summerland, BC; David LeRose, Kettle River Resources, I-Iuntington Beach, CA; Byron Lewis,...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy |  | | Report (volume) | | BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, Sidney F. 1920. A replacement of wood by dolomite: Jour. Geology, vol. 28, pp. 356-365...1936. Chehalis fossil wood: Mineralogist, vol. 4, no. 7, p. 22. 1936a. Crooked River Basin, Oregon, yields...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.... structure of the fossil plant from Posuncula River: U. S., Pacific R. R. Expl. (U. S., 33d Cong., 2d |  | | Report (volume) | | 248 259 269 271 275 281 r 4 CONTENTS. Page. Texas...................................................New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature consulted would be impracticable...Phillips, W. B., The mineral resources of Texas: Univ. Texas Bull. 365, Sci. Ser. 29, 1914. Among other...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Showing your collection to advantage by Simonne Wood 44 THE CHAIN GANG "Crocheting" a Chain is the... Prellelent (SCFMS) 9039 Katy Fwy, Suite 230. Houston. TX 77024 Betty Crawford. Executive Vice-President...Elaine Gibln. Treasurer 14318 Sugar Mill Cir. Houston. TX 77095 Contact Mra. Mignon Wagner. Executive...degrees. Index 4-12-20-28-36-44-52-60. PREPAID to USA addrett (Wuhlngton l'NlÂŤMnt⢠add 7.ftt tall) PIXIES...MINERAi.i (not for cutting Pu'l'Urlll ~ Quern "-tnlled Wood Amuonlle Plllonwlane Hyelromâ˘g,,..lte Alabe1ter |  | | Journal (issue) | | Langston (SCFMS) .a13 Hollowbrook Fort Worth, Texas 76103 EDITOR and PUBLISHER MANAGING EDITOR - Telephone:... San Antonio, Texas 78204 Rex Gerber, Vice-President 4105 Harry, Corpus Christi, Texas 78411 FIELD TRIPS...Anton io, Texas 78228 Mrs. Viola Smi th, Treasurer 1215 South 41st Street, Temple, Texas 76501 GEMS...Show . Vllllta Assemb ly Bulldlng, San Antonio. Texas. Southwest Gem and Mineral Society, host. Lester...Lester D. Sunvlson, 234 Lark, San Ant onio. Texas 78228. June 15 thrv 17. ROCKY MOUNTAIN FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL |
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