 | | 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) | | and citrine; petrified wood chips with brilliant color under the calcite coating; petrified coral (honeycomb)...search of the elusive pink log. W e found several petrified logs, but soon determined that they were not the...search was over. Sure enough it was pink and petrified. W e debated over the best way to get it out and...IN NEBRASKA By AM EL PRIEST Peru, Iowa Recently made a one day rock collecting trip to Nebraska in search...said to be found in the limestone quarries around Wymore along the Blue River. My cousin, Dale Travis, who |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | under the bridge. I found a fragment of pink petrified wood that looked promising, so we headed up the...suspicious looking log to see if it was the pink petrified log we sought. Then we came to a low sandbar on...and citrine; petrified wood chips with brilliant color under the calcite coating; petrified coral (honeycomb)...search of the elusive pink log. W e found several petrified logs, but soon determined that they were not the...search was over. Sure enough it was pink and petrified. W e debated over the best way to get it out and |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........................ 322 SOME MINERALS OF NEBRASKA. By Prof. E. F. Schra,nn1 ........ 323 EYLES...ERALS OF NEBRASKA By PROFESSOR E. F. SCHRAMM Chairman Department of Geology University of Nebraska ess,...ned the :urc '. R . by As you probably know, Nebraska is noted for its scarcity of fine gem minerals...age in the quarries east and west of Louisville, Nebraska, and just east of Weeping Water contain some small...avis quarry about two miles east of Wymore, Gage County, Nebraska, contains many geodes which ace lined |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | was reported in 1843 at Williams Ferry in Hall County by Dr. Stevenson while panning for gold. The stone...Creek corundum mine in Town County. At Piedmont Orchard in Habersham County, beautiful nodules of deep...related to granitic rocks, has been found in Troup County near La Grange. All of the stones are a rich blue-green...I stopped off at Turkey Run State Park in Park County, Indiana. I found that by wading into streams (outside...a coal strip mine near Melrose, in S / W Monroe County, in the southern part of Iowa. This find reported |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1950, manganese mine near Glen wood, Pike ROCKS AND MINERALS, p. 123. County, Arkansas. Mr. Young also sends...development near Mountain Pass, San Bernardino County, Calif. Molybdenum Corporation of America is at...the last issue of R & M, mention was made of petrified wood being found in the state near Cape Henlopen...100 years ago. Since then we have heard that petrified wood is still available but at another locality...Lake in Delaware. According to Mr. Jochen, petrified wood is found along Drawyers Creek, between Shallcross |  | | Report (volume) | | Construction-Material Resources of Pottawatomie County, Kansas GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN Prepared...Construction-Material Resources of Pottawatomie County, Kansas By GLENN R. SCOTT, FRANK W. FOSTER, and...shale___--_---__--___________-_________-_______ Wood Siding formation_______________________________...ILLUSTKATIONS Page PLATE 5. Geologic map of Pottawatomie County, Kansas,_.______ In pocket FIGTTBE 5. Index map...______________ 100 6. Physiography of Pottawatomie County, Kansas. _ ______ 101 7. Chart showing temperature |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOLOGIC CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL RESOURCES IN WABAUNSEE COUNTY, KANSAS by Melville R. Mudge and Robert H. Burton...limestone member. ..... Unnamed shale member. ........ Nebraska City limestone member. ... Pony Creek and French...construction materials and Rolled geology of Wabaunsee County, Kans,. . . . separately Figure 1 Index map... Outcropping stratigraphic units in Wabaunsee County, Kans,, and their construction materials ........Figure 5-. Map shewing outcrops in Wabaunsee County, Kans. of limestones of use in engineering construction |  | | 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 (volume) | | Idaho, lowa, 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, 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises 4,460’...Mesozoic era. Thus, as one travels westward across Nebraska they find successively younger formations appearing...disclosing spectacular bedrock formations. Northwestern Nebraska contains most of the gem fields in the state,...that rival the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the...extensive collecting region of agatized and opalized wood for high gem quality is the Sandhills country around |  | | Report (volume) | | Geology of Wabaunsee County Kansas GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN Prepared in cooperation with State Highway...Missouri River basin 1068 Geology of Wabaunsee County Kansas By MELVILLE R. MUDGE and ROBERT H. BURTON...Mudge, Melville Rhodes, 1921Geology of Wabaunsee County, Kansas, by Melville K. Mudge and Robert H. Burton...member___________________________ Wood Siding formation___________________________________ Nebraska City limestone member..._____ Matfield shale_____________ _ _______ _______ Wymore shale member________________.________________ Kinney |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | and Mineral Fair will be held at the Jefferson County Fair Grounds west of Denver, Colo., on U. S. 6...1965—5th Annual Swapping Bee and Picnic of the Fulton County Mineral Club will be held at John Boyd Thacher...International Rock Swap sponsored by the Jefferson County Rock & Mineral Club on the ranch of Leslie Rose... Md. Aug. 20-22, 1965 — The Annual Northwest Nebraska Rock Club Show will be held in the Crawford Gty...Auditorium, Topeka, Kans. 66616. Oct. 2, 3, 1965—Nebraska Mineral & Gem Club of Omaha, Neb., will present |  | | Journal (issue) | | - ALL ORDIRI IIUIT INCLUDI A 12.00 1M If In the USA - all others Including Canada must Include lull amount...times in the past I have had pieces of Arizona petrified wood with the desired red-yellow combination. Unfortunately...Rocks Educational EMMONS, Mr. & Mrs. J.J.-Fosslllzed wood EVANS, Wallace & Fbz .ce "One Day Trips from Home"...Ella-Calc:edony oddities HUNTilNG, Bobbe & Sayre-Petrified Wood IANNUCCI, Pat & Joe-Thumbnail Minerals INTERNATIONAL...PARRISH, Jean-Minerals PASQUINI, Catherine-Petrified Wood PASQUINI, Vic-"Green Medley" PFEFER, Stewart |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | - ALL ORDEAi MUST INCLUDE A S.2.00 ,_ II In the USA - all others including Canada must Include lull amount...central Minnesota on Route 94), the county seat of Douglas County. There, 12 ½ miles from the place where...The Denver Museum of Natural History, the Mesa County Historical Museum and Institute of Western Colorado.......... 70 Specimens Purpurlte Rose Quartz Petrified Wood Opal Lepidolite (Yellow) Chalk Nephrite Amazonite...Pyrrhotlte Jaroslte Andradlte Spessartine Opallzed Wood Thullte Rutllated Quanz Mariposite ldocrase Grossular |  | | Journal (issue) | | Auditoriun1 29 July-I Aug.-Franklin, NC- \lacon County Fairgrounds 29 July-2 Aug.- Bancroft, Ontario,...Texas June 17-20 Midwe,t Federation Show West County Exposition Cent.er St. Louis, Missouri July 22-25... Monty McMahon, Santa Barbara, California, uses wood dowels. There are various sizes to fit each stone... with a pocket knife he cuts away the remaining wood and epoxy. Sometimes Mr. McMahon uses nail heads.......... 70 Specimens Purpurlte Rose Quartz Petrified Wood Opal Lepidolite (Yellow) Chalk Nephrite Amazonlte |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...cryptocrystalline varieties of quartz, such as agate and petrified wood, extend over thousands VI Preface .. Vil...University of Nebraska recognized this problem in his Minerals and Gemstones of Nebraska (1971),- in which... Louis Moyd, Pauline Moyd, Merrill 0. Murphy, Nebraska Conservation and Survey Division, Nevada Bureau...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and |  | | Journal (issue) | | motor for S69.95 Crystahte diamond compound for wood wheels alone 1s worth $29 00 A $98.95 value. Gem..... 70 Specimens Purpurite Rose Quartz PetTifled Wood Opal Lepidolite (Yellow) Chalk Nephrite Amazonile...Pyrrhotlte Jarosite Andradite Spessartine Opalized Wood Thullte Rutllated Quartz Mariposite ldocrase Grossular... WALL HANGER AND MOUNTING HARDWARE, POSTPAID IN USA. WHOLESALE QUANTITY PRICES AVAILABLE. TRANSISTOR...(Division of Greenway Nursery and Garden Supply) 340 Wymore Road, Winter Park, Florida 32789. Featuring a large |  | | Journal (issue) | | dumortierite, red jasper, several different colors of petrified wood, agate, carnelian, pink opalite, Panamint marble...example, were originally made from one piece of petrified wood. However, when they were finished, much of...dumortierite from the Indian Pass area of Imperial County, California. The red stripes are red jasper from...stars are howlite from Tick Canyon in Los Angeles County. continued on page 10 8 - NOVEMBER 1976 FEATURING:...body and legs were made from a piece of dark, petrified wood. The head and tail came from howlite. The feet |  | | Journal (issue) | | RMFMS - Evelyn Schafer, 3229 N. 60 St., Omaha, Nebraska 68104 SCFMS - Rue l E. Brown, Rt. 8, Box 680,...Portland, Or. 92719. CLUB SHOWS Feb. 4 thru 6. Gila County Gem and Mineral Society. 15th Annual Show. Gila...specimens only) ......70 Specimens - Rose Quartz Petrified Wood Psilomelone Hyd romag nesite 0 Apophyllite...Chrysocolla • Cholconthite Spessortine Opoli zed Wood Oumort ie rite '/• " Aquamarine Conicholcire • Sapphire...Spholerite Gornierite lep idolite $12.00 po1tpaid Petrified Whole Bone Colemanite Pi solitic limestone Thomsonlte |  | | Journal (issue) | | RMFMS - Evelyn Schafer. 3229 N. 60 St.. Omaha. Nebraska 68104. SCFMS - Howard Hillier. 216 La Barre Or...Convention and Show. " Garnel Star of Idaho." Nez Perce County Fairgrounds, Lewiston, Idaho. Host. Helli Canyon...CA. Host. Gem and Mineral Society of San Mateo County. H.B. Murnan. P.O. Box 53. NAS Moffett Field. CA...Gates open 4 days early. July 8 thru 8. Oxford County Mlneral and Gem Asaoclatlon. 12th Annual Festival... ta1lgat1ng. trading . July 14 and 15. Lincoln County Gem and Mineral Society. 5th Annual " Down-Maine" |  | | Journal (issue) | | San Antonio Rock & Lapi dary Society and Bexar County Mineral Hobby Club. Chairman; Fred Stevenson, P...Monroe, Peru, Indiana. April 30, May 1. 1966—Dallas County' Rock Club will hold its Rock Club Showcase at...Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Host: Clark County Gem Collectors, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las...Lan- the American Mineralogist (1961). Un caster County, Pennsylvania is dolomite fortunately, dcweylite...north tf ^ Mason.Dixon )jne a, |h Q Creek Lancastcr County, Pennsylvania It may be rcacllcd by /oll>wing the |
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