 | | Report (issue) | | University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Conservation and Survey...Gemstones of Nebraska: A Handbook for Students and Collectors Roger K. Pabian University of Nebraska - Lincoln...Lincoln, rpabian1@unl.edu Allan Cook University of Nebraska - Lincoln Follow this and additional works at:...K. and Cook, Allan, "Minerals and Gemstones of Nebraska: A Handbook for Students and Collectors" (1976)...Resources, School of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | embed some of the barite. Superior, in N/E Pinal County, is in southern Arizona. CALIFORNIA â John S. Albanese...Pala, Calif."âon label. Pala, in N / W San Diego County, is in southern California. COLORADO â "I am sending...hyalite (opal) which fl. green. Stoneham, in E. Weld County, is in N / E Colorado. CONNECTICUT â "I am sending...miles N / W of North Stonington, S/E New London County, in S/E Connecticut. FLORIDAâ"Referring to page...very graciously donated a nice specimen of petrified wood. The specimen is 6 inches long, iy2 inches |  | | Book (volume) | | Idaho, lowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, â ; Oregon, South Dakota, Washington...Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington...Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington...Idaho lowa Kansas Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oregon South Dakota Washington ...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | creek bed near there. RADIOACTIVE PETRIFIED WOOD To find petrified wood, take the road south from Jeffrey...directions; take your choice. You will find petrified wood mostly on the hilltops and hillsides. Most...radioactive around my neck. Some of the radioactive petrified wood fluoresces green under shortwave ultraviolet...uranium boom, the occurrence of uranium bearing petrified wood in that area deceived people into thinking...surrounding country. Good specimens of radioactive petrified wood is sometimes found near those pits. Don't let |  | | Book (edition) | | types of agate, opal and petrified this region is noted. The agate is wood for which believed...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^...have a cornfield at Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Va. A 3 carat stone, bought by a Knoxville |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | largest group ever assembled in Fremont County (Canon City is its County Seat). In addition to the mineral...was found last fall in the Crooks Mt. area of Fremont Co., Wyo. â this weighed 272 lbs. and so resembled...years and specializes in Colorado palm wood. Petrified palm wood is found in the Littleton district and...of very nice dark blue labradorite from Albany County, Wyoming. Royce has an Aunt, Mrs. V. Howard, who...fremontite (fleshcolored feldspar found in F r e m o n t County, C o l o . ) , and other nice minerals o n display |  | | 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 | | 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...Such Plains and created beautiful Crater Lake. Nebraska and Kansas the High â states as âowe their...stream beds and the rocks the stream Agates and petrified wood fragments as well as specimens of hundreds |  | | Journal (issue) | | George 5 Fremont Lake Glacier 9 The âHumbleâ Geode 13 Bench Tips 16 Petrified Wood in the Jasper/Sam...into two very nice rooms. MAJOR relief! Back in the USA: They returned to the U.S., moving to Houston for...LITTLE BIT OF THIS AND THAT BUT MOSTLY ABOUT THE FREMONT LAKE GLACIER by Nancy Fischer We have inadvertently...Wyoming, we joined our local rock club, the Sublette County Rockhounds. They offer a great introduction to...of things including banded chert. (See âSublette County Rockhoundsâ BBG July 2019 https://hgms.org/BBG |  | | Journal (issue) | | mountainous deposit at Ciimax, near Breckenridge, Summit County, is said to be the worldâs largest deposit; and...other counties, one very notable being in Ouray County at the head of the Uncumpahge River canyon, where...central volcanics, such as Park, El Paso, Chaffee, Fremont, Mineral and Saguache; and southwestern counties...occurs high on snow- crested Italian Mt. in Gunnison County. For collectors, a journey there is a âmustâ, to...the Molly Gibsan at Aspen in east-central Pitkin County, where it carried the bulk of the silver ore of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pale smoky crystals, from the Center, Cherokee County, Ala., locality and that they are very good. This...Madison County. "Beryl: as light golden crystals, fractured but gemmy, from near Hissop, Coosa County." ArizonaâA...Las Vegas, Nev., publicity director of the Clark County Gem Collectors, carried the following paragraph...locality is the south shore of Lake Mead, Mohave County, Ariz. Another letter from Mr. Drury contained...possible. Total round trip mileage is 143. Drive out Fremont Street in Las Vegas to Boulder City and on down |  | | Book | | Paleozoic fossils from Iowa and parts of Minnesota and Nebraska, including invertebrates, trace fossils, plant...described throughout Iowa and adjacent parts of Nebraska and Minnesota, one hundred and fifty of which...much they have helped with this book. Geologists Nebraska, at the the three Minnesota state universities...Conservation and Survey Division of the University of Nebraska permitted the following illustrations to be sketched...from Brachiopoda of the Pennsylvanian System in Nebraska by Dunbar and Condra (1932): Plate 9-8B. The Iowa |  | | 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.âŻcone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Toddâs Ford, a mineral depositâŻHematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarriesâŻoilstone. 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.âŻcone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Toddâs Ford, a mineral depositâŻHematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarriesâŻoilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE | | | Book | | topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...crea ted beautiful Crater Lake Such states as Nebraska and Kansas-the Hig h Plains-owe their fertile...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Diamond Mines, at (or near) Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. At the mines, I was kindly given permission...Alameda Co., Calif., by Verne Simons, 3641 So. Nebraska St., Marion, Ind., when he visited the State some...spending a few weeks in Florida, reports finding petrified Manatee bones and other fossils around Sarasota...how he pinpoints his findings: It is in Somerset County near Great Moose Pond on the banks of Goodwins...locally as Pebbley Beach. Cohasset is in Norfolk County on the south shore of Massachusetts Bay, about |  | | Book | | Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...Pima Co. âŠFluorspar HOLBROOK, Adamana region Petrified Wood KELVIN, Pinal Co., 2 mi S. of E. side of Verde...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite |  | | Report (issue) | | .. ............................. . ....... Petrified Wood ......... __ ..................... __ ... ....................... He)J's Ha1f·Acre, Natrona County ..................................................................... Petrified tree trunk, near Frontier Creek, Fremont County.........................shale, san dstone, cong lomerate oil & gas Din wood y, Chugwa ter (ms. dolomite, lime· stone, sandstone...Proterozoic P reca mbrian Tjme 100 Ga llatin·Dead· wood fms. Flathead·Gros Ventre fms. etc. Archeozoic |  | | Report (volume) | | the Oregon Buttes Area Sweetwater, Sublette And Fremont Counties Southwestern Wyoming GEOLOGICAL 5' Ol...the Oregon Buttes Area Sweetwater, Sublette And Fremont Counties Southwestern Wyoming By H. D. ZELLER and...the SW# sec. 10, T. 26 N., R. 99 W., Sweetwater County, Wyo.__________________________ ^IP- 11 34 36...THE OREGON BUTTES AREA SWEETWATER, SUBLETTE, AND FREMONT COUNTIES SOUTHWESTERN WYOMING By H. D. ZELLER and...in Sweetwater County, about 165 square miles in the northeastern part is in Fremont County, and about 80 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Sh prock, New Mexico. Sept. 3 -Oct. 3âYavapai county fair, Pr scott, Arizona. Oct. 2 âLake Mead regatta...5-17âLuna county fair and Sh :riffs Posse rodeo, Deming, N< w Mexico. Oct. 15-17âGreenlee county fair and...soc ety, Trona, California. Oct. 28- 30âGraham county fair, Saffor 1, Arizona. Oct. 30 31âPapago rodeo...million years. Let us consider petrified wood. Practically all petrified wood that I have found on the Colorado...greyishbrown color, andânow mark thisâthe only black petrified wood I have ever seen comes from Grave wash. I have |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................275 Nebraska ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map .......................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | "sowbelly" agate. Agate or jasper replacement of wood and dinosaur bone often results in col orful and...rhyolite at Ruby Mountain near Nathrop in Chaffee County, Colorado). Striatums (which are perpendicular...or quartz latite porphyry near Home in Larimer County (Ray, 1947). This is one of the world's best documented...those of the South Platte district in Jefferson County, the quartz, feld spar, and other minerals of...Devils Head, Douglas County Wigwam Creek, Jefferson County Harris Park, Park County Spruce Grove Campground |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsâŻagate, jasper, rare...âŻagate, jasper; d RR siding of ClayâŻagate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area depositsâŻSiderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional depositsâŻSiderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mineâŻpyritized 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 gravelsâŻagate, jasper, rare...âŻagate, jasper; d RR siding of ClayâŻagate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area depositsâŻSiderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional depositsâŻSiderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mineâŻpyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |
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