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Let’s do something different

Happy Summer to all of our RMFMS Clubs!I know most of you have been as hot as we have been here in NW Arkansas, but

I sure do hope not all of you have been as DRY! The weatherman said we are 13”short of rain this year…so far. Well, I guess that does give you dry days to go rockhunting. But, in the 107º-110º heat? I cannot.

This is also the time of year many of our clubs will start looking for next year’s officers. In additionto officers, have you given thought to putting together a long-term program plan? Or committing topaper or computer file just what your club hopes to accomplish in the next five years? These twoitems are essential to help your club plan and stay with the plan. And,planning helps grow pro-grams and membership.

If you are looking for inspiration or ideas, have you thought of attending a neighboring club’s meet-ings? And especially their shows. Talk to their members. What is that club doing that they like …or dislike. What great ideas can you “borrow” or expand upon. Put together a field trip and inviteother clubs to join you in. Get to know more rockhounds.

Have you been in contact with your State Director lately? (Sorry Arizona, but I’m still working ongetting one as soon as possible.) They are really great resources for your club, both in solving

problems that might exist, or getting new ideas to help the club grow. All the State Directors are listed in this newsletter on the offi-cers page. They are also in the Membership Directory, where you can find the names and phone numbers of officers to otherclubs.

Do something different next year. Start a new education class, participate in the Rocky Mountain Federation contests (the All Ameri-can Clubs judging is on the report/scrapbook your club keeps, and it’s a good way to see what you have done all year). Make a fieldtrip out of going to another club’s show (they really appreciate the support, and you might get some new ideas). Do something toinvolve your new members without overwhelming them with a job.

The weather will soon be cooling off. This is a great time to Do Something Different!

Inside this Issue:

Treasurer’s Report 2

Arkansas: Home to ... 2

ACROYs!! 6

Pups Go ‘Social’ 7

AZ Mineral Collector-No. 150 7

Prevent Mosquito Bites 8

A Town Named Marble 9

Smilodon 10

The Age of Fishes 10

E-Mail Address Change 10

Rockhound Stickers! 10

Particles of Beauty 11

Junior Trading Cards 11

News You Can Use 14

Shows & More 14

Officers & Committees 15

Club Changes Name 11

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WE HAVE THE BEST EDITORS IN THE NATION!!

I am so proud of our authors, artists, and (most of all) our editors—RMFMS provided 22.1% of the winners in theAFMS Publications Contest in July! CONGRATULATIONS; I can’t say ‘thank you’ enough! The other federations

represented were (by %): MWF 19.7%; EMLS 16.4%; SCFMS 14.8%; SFMS 11.5%; CFMS 9.8%; and NFMS 5.7%.

Here’s the list of our winners:

Adult Articles—4th Brett Whitenack, The Post Rock; 6th Law-rence Skelton, Quarry Quips; 9th Ellie Rosenberg, Pick&Pack.

Adult Advanced Articles—1st Bob Carnein, Lake George Gem& Mineral Club News; 3rd Beth Simmons & Katherine Hondo,Tips & Chips; 6th Andy Weinzaphfel, Pick&Pack; 7th AndyWeinzapfel, Lake George Gem & Mineral Club.

Junior Articles (Under 12) - 2nd Wesley Cassidy, Flatirons Fac-ets; 5th Jacob Murphy, Pick&Pack.

Junior Articles (12-17) - 1st Victor Gordillo, Pick&Pack; 2ndChristine Vasper, The Post Rock; 4th Carmen Amos, The PostRock; 5th Kurt Lahmer, Pick&Pack.

Written Features—HM, Jack & Julie Shimon, Pick&Pack;

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Circulation Manager:Bill Cain(see above)[email protected]

Subscriptions:Gene Maggard8318 SE Highway 77Leon, KS [email protected]

Rates—$3.50 a year forthe Rocky Mountain Federa-tion News only. $7.75 ayear for both the RockyMountain Federation Newsand the RMFMS Directory.Directory only—$5.00.Order from Supplies Chair,Kim Blanton728 E. Sandy Dunes Dr.Sandy, UT [email protected]

DeadlineBulletin submissions deadlineis the second week of themonth prior to publicationdate; i.e., the deadline forthe October bulletin is thethird week of September.Unless otherwise marked,materials from this publica-tion may be reprinted bymembers, giving credit tothe author and the RockyMountain Federation News.

RMFMS Newsletter! This idea is probably a grandiose thought, but italso would be an intellectual challenge that might occupy my time. Ifmy mind wanders off to other areas of interest there is a decent chancethat the project might never get finished! Much of the information, bynecessity, will come from readily available information in libraries andon the Internet---especially from the state geological surveys (such asthe Arkansas Geological Survey that furnished the maps in this article).Other pieces of information will be drawn from my collecting experi-ences, and associated field trips, in each of the states. I have beeninspired in my life by Henry David Thoreau: Go confidently in the direc-tion of your dreams. Live the life you imagined. My dream has alwaysbeen to pick up rocks, observe natural surroundings, interact with peo-ple, and enjoy sunsets. I often get quizzed, especially by persons ap-proaching that magic age, what do you do in retirement? My first an-swer is that I have not really retired but simply moved on to a newphase in my life. I drink good strong coffee (black, please), read,scratch the dog, write, hike, camp, fish, enjoy time with my spouse,travel, try not to take myself seriously, and have a relaxing adult bever-age (IPA, please) in the late afternoon. I try to avoid committee meet-ings, do avoid employee reviews, and shrug off most strategic plans. Iam fond of saying, Life is Good.It is easy to understand that each of the Federation states has uniquegeology, unique physiography, and unique minerals and fossils to col-lect. I certainly have not made much of a dent in this collecting but continue to work on it! For some states I will try to describeminerals in my collection, or at least talk about some of the major collecting sites (to the best of my ability). Over the years my per-sonal collection has sort of dwindled with several job-related moves, helping aspiring junior rockhounds start a collection, helpingschools with collections for their classes, etc. In addition, all of the vertebrate fossils are accessioned in accredited museums. Foreach state I plan to point out interesting road logs that visitors may acquire and follow. As a starter to the Federation states, pleasesee an introductory article in the November 2011 edition of the RMFMS Newsletter. The best thing that could now happen isthat readers in the individual Federation states, much more knowledgeable than I am, would take up the challenge andreport on their own state. This action would certainly be better received than anything I could put forth. But, I will give it a trysince it is my hope that Federation members will become familiar with the geology of their neighboring states. And, please drop mean email with suggestions and/or comments, and take up my challenge.So, back to Arkansas, the home of the Federation President, DeLane Cox, and a good place to start. But, as best that I can tell,

Arkansas has only a single club in the RMFMS (the Northwest Arkansas Gem and MineralSociety); other clubs in the state belong to the Midwest Federation.Arkansas has land situated in two major physiographic regions, the Atlantic Plain and the Inte-rior Highlands; each has several subdivisions (Fig. 1). The Atlantic Plain includes the Missis-sippi River Alluvial Plain (term of the Arkansas Geological Survey as I am used to calling it theMississippi Embayment) that occupies the eastern one-third part of the state along the River.The Plain is a lowland without much relief and represents deposition in a basin extending fromCairo, Illinois, on the north (where the Ohio River joins the Mississippi) to the Delta. The old-est exposed rocks/sediments are Cretaceous marine while the youngest are being depositedby the River today. As far as I can tell, there is not much to collect in the generally featurelessPlain, but there may be invertebrate fossils—and agates! Crowley’s Ridge is about a 250-500feet high, 200 mile long “ridge” sticking up in the alluvial plain and extending from southeast-ern Missouri into northeastern Arkansas (Fig. 2). The origin of the ridge seems uncertain(seismic? wind accumulation? erosional remnant?); however, the sediments are late Cenozoicin age. The surficial flora and fauna are more closely related to states east across the riverthan to the rest of Arkansas. At any rate, the gravel pits along the ridge produce agatesknown as Crowley’s Ridge Agates, a somewhat bland colored (in many/most cases) fortifica-tion agate (Fig. 3). They occur asnodules, many are fist-size, inmostly tan to cream to brown colors.The source of the agates is un-known but they must come fromPaleozoic rocks to the north andwere deposited by the ancestralMississippi River. The Cambrian

Potosi Formation cropping out in Missouri seems a possibility as I havecollected similar looking specimens from that state.I also wish to point out that some dealers and agate sellers on the inter-net dye the agates various colors and term them “Fairburn-like” or “Lake Superior-like”. Beware of bright pink Crowley’s Ridge Ag-ates!The most interesting aspect of the Mississippi Embayment is in the subsurface; a feature termed the Reelfoot Rift or Reelfoot

AARKANSASRKANSAS: H: HOMEOME TOTO C CROWLEYROWLEY’’SS R RIDGEIDGEAAGATESGATES, D, DIAMONDSIAMONDS, RMFMS P, RMFMS PRESRES. C. COXOX,,ANDAND O OTHERTHER F FEATURESEATURES DR. MIKE NELSON

The end of the fiscal year rapidly approaches. The member club annualreport, dues, and optional liability insurance form will be going out in Oc-

tober. The most difficult and time consuming part of getting the forms back is run-ning down new treasurers that came to office after their club’s current report wasfiled with us. If you are receiving this newsletter, are you still a current officer? I am especiallyinterested in treasurers, because it is the treasurer mailing list that I use for sending out theform. If you are reading this and are no longer a current treasurer for you club, could you or thenew treasurer please send me the new treasurer’s name, address, email, and telephone num-ber?

I hope that you are having a great summer and finding lots of nice rocks. For some of us,catching lots if nice fish is also a great pastime. Peggy and I have been to the Black Hills inSouth Dakota twice this year for rock hunting and fishing. The fishing was great, but we did notfind any of the elusive Fairburns. Perhaps sometime we will meet at a choice fishing or rockhunting “honey hole.”

TTREASURERREASURER’’SS R REPORTEPORT BY GENE MAGGARD

HM Greg Weisbrod, Quarry Quips; HM LindaBurns, Tips & Chips.

Adult Poetry—1st Michael Wingo; QuarryQuips; 5th Kim Vasper, The Post Rock; 7thLisa Scheibmeir, Quarry Quips.

Mini Bulletins—3rd The Huachuca Diggers,Ingrid Baillie, Editor.

Small Bulletins—2nd The Post Rock, SaraMurphy, Editor; 3rd Quarry Quips, Carolyn

White, Editor; 10th News & Views, Reed Pen-dleton, Editor.

Large Bulletins—6th T-Town Rockhound,Scott Robb, Editor; 7th Tips & Chips, BethSimmons, Editor; HM Flatirons Facets, BarryKnapp, Editor.

Special Publications—3rd Lois Larson, ThePost Rock.

Again, congratulations to all our winners! I hope you’ve been providing the club editors withmore great articles this year for the 2013 contest. It’s not too late to warm up the old keyboardand whip out a few winning words. Don’t forget, we’ve added Picture Stories as a new categoryin the RMFMS contest for all you shutter bugs.

You are my heroes!

A t the recent AFMS show (agates and more agates) in the Twin Citiesarea, I noticed that at least three dealers had “Crowley’s Ridge Ag-

ates” for sale. I sort of knew about the general geology of Crowley’s Ridgebut did not realize the rocks in the area produced agates. Since I thoughtthe Ridge was composed of wind-blown sediments sitting on top of a fewTertiary rocks, my curiosity asked where were the agates being collected?What is the source of the agates? And then the big question—what do I really know about thegeology of Arkansas?Readers of the RMFMS Newsletter might notice that several of my articles have focused on thecentral states of the Federation, especially Colorado and Kansas---my current home and mypast home; I am most familiar with the geology of those states. However, I have “branched out”and recent issues of the Colorado Springs Pick&Pack (www.csms.us), and my blog atwww.csmsgeologypost.blogspot.com have focused on the geology and minerals of Wyoming,South Dakota, and Utah.These deep thoughts gave me an idea—perhaps over the next several months I could cobbletogether enough information about the Federation states to contribute a series of articles to the

[email protected],www.csmsgeologypost.b

logspot.com

Fig. 1. Sketch map showing physiographic regions of Arkansas.Map from Arkansas Geological Survey.

Fig. 2. Northeast Arkansas showinglocation of Crowley’s Ridge. Map fromArkansas Geological Survey.

Fig. 3. Crowley’s Ridge Agate. Photo lifted from EBay.


PublicationsPublicationsEditor:Betty Cain2702 E. Pikes Peak Ave.Colo. Springs, CO [email protected]

Circulation Manager:Bill Cain(see above)[email protected]

Subscriptions:Gene Maggard8318 SE Highway 77Leon, KS [email protected]

Rates—$3.50 a year forthe Rocky Mountain Federa-tion News only. $7.75 ayear for both the RockyMountain Federation Newsand the RMFMS Directory.Directory only—$5.00.Order from Supplies Chair,Kim Blanton728 E. Sandy Dunes Dr.Sandy, UT [email protected]

DeadlineBulletin submissions deadlineis the second week of themonth prior to publicationdate; i.e., the deadline forthe October bulletin is thethird week of September.Unless otherwise marked,materials from this publica-tion may be reprinted bymembers, giving credit tothe author and the RockyMountain Federation News.

RMFMS Newsletter! This idea is probably a grandiose thought, but italso would be an intellectual challenge that might occupy my time. Ifmy mind wanders off to other areas of interest there is a decent chancethat the project might never get finished! Much of the information, bynecessity, will come from readily available information in libraries andon the Internet---especially from the state geological surveys (such asthe Arkansas Geological Survey that furnished the maps in this article).Other pieces of information will be drawn from my collecting experi-ences, and associated field trips, in each of the states. I have beeninspired in my life by Henry David Thoreau: Go confidently in the direc-tion of your dreams. Live the life you imagined. My dream has alwaysbeen to pick up rocks, observe natural surroundings, interact with peo-ple, and enjoy sunsets. I often get quizzed, especially by persons ap-proaching that magic age, what do you do in retirement? My first an-swer is that I have not really retired but simply moved on to a newphase in my life. I drink good strong coffee (black, please), read,scratch the dog, write, hike, camp, fish, enjoy time with my spouse,travel, try not to take myself seriously, and have a relaxing adult bever-age (IPA, please) in the late afternoon. I try to avoid committee meet-ings, do avoid employee reviews, and shrug off most strategic plans. Iam fond of saying, Life is Good.It is easy to understand that each of the Federation states has uniquegeology, unique physiography, and unique minerals and fossils to col-lect. I certainly have not made much of a dent in this collecting but continue to work on it! For some states I will try to describeminerals in my collection, or at least talk about some of the major collecting sites (to the best of my ability). Over the years my per-sonal collection has sort of dwindled with several job-related moves, helping aspiring junior rockhounds start a collection, helpingschools with collections for their classes, etc. In addition, all of the vertebrate fossils are accessioned in accredited museums. Foreach state I plan to point out interesting road logs that visitors may acquire and follow. As a starter to the Federation states, pleasesee an introductory article in the November 2011 edition of the RMFMS Newsletter. The best thing that could now happen isthat readers in the individual Federation states, much more knowledgeable than I am, would take up the challenge andreport on their own state. This action would certainly be better received than anything I could put forth. But, I will give it a trysince it is my hope that Federation members will become familiar with the geology of their neighboring states. And, please drop mean email with suggestions and/or comments, and take up my challenge.So, back to Arkansas, the home of the Federation President, DeLane Cox, and a good place to start. But, as best that I can tell,

Arkansas has only a single club in the RMFMS (the Northwest Arkansas Gem and MineralSociety); other clubs in the state belong to the Midwest Federation.Arkansas has land situated in two major physiographic regions, the Atlantic Plain and the Inte-rior Highlands; each has several subdivisions (Fig. 1). The Atlantic Plain includes the Missis-sippi River Alluvial Plain (term of the Arkansas Geological Survey as I am used to calling it theMississippi Embayment) that occupies the eastern one-third part of the state along the River.The Plain is a lowland without much relief and represents deposition in a basin extending fromCairo, Illinois, on the north (where the Ohio River joins the Mississippi) to the Delta. The old-est exposed rocks/sediments are Cretaceous marine while the youngest are being depositedby the River today. As far as I can tell, there is not much to collect in the generally featurelessPlain, but there may be invertebrate fossils—and agates! Crowley’s Ridge is about a 250-500feet high, 200 mile long “ridge” sticking up in the alluvial plain and extending from southeast-ern Missouri into northeastern Arkansas (Fig. 2). The origin of the ridge seems uncertain(seismic? wind accumulation? erosional remnant?); however, the sediments are late Cenozoicin age. The surficial flora and fauna are more closely related to states east across the riverthan to the rest of Arkansas. At any rate, the gravel pits along the ridge produce agatesknown as Crowley’s Ridge Agates, a somewhat bland colored (in many/most cases) fortifica-tion agate (Fig. 3). They occur asnodules, many are fist-size, inmostly tan to cream to brown colors.The source of the agates is un-known but they must come fromPaleozoic rocks to the north andwere deposited by the ancestralMississippi River. The Cambrian

Potosi Formation cropping out in Missouri seems a possibility as I havecollected similar looking specimens from that state.I also wish to point out that some dealers and agate sellers on the inter-net dye the agates various colors and term them “Fairburn-like” or “Lake Superior-like”. Beware of bright pink Crowley’s Ridge Ag-ates!The most interesting aspect of the Mississippi Embayment is in the subsurface; a feature termed the Reelfoot Rift or Reelfoot

AARKANSASRKANSAS: H: HOMEOME TOTO C CROWLEYROWLEY’’SS R RIDGEIDGEAAGATESGATES, D, DIAMONDSIAMONDS, RMFMS P, RMFMS PRESRES. C. COXOX,,ANDAND O OTHERTHER F FEATURESEATURES DR. MIKE NELSON

The end of the fiscal year rapidly approaches. The member club annualreport, dues, and optional liability insurance form will be going out in Oc-

tober. The most difficult and time consuming part of getting the forms back is run-ning down new treasurers that came to office after their club’s current report wasfiled with us. If you are receiving this newsletter, are you still a current officer? I am especiallyinterested in treasurers, because it is the treasurer mailing list that I use for sending out theform. If you are reading this and are no longer a current treasurer for you club, could you or thenew treasurer please send me the new treasurer’s name, address, email, and telephone num-ber?

I hope that you are having a great summer and finding lots of nice rocks. For some of us,catching lots if nice fish is also a great pastime. Peggy and I have been to the Black Hills inSouth Dakota twice this year for rock hunting and fishing. The fishing was great, but we did notfind any of the elusive Fairburns. Perhaps sometime we will meet at a choice fishing or rockhunting “honey hole.”

TTREASURERREASURER’’SS R REPORTEPORT BY GENE MAGGARD

HM Greg Weisbrod, Quarry Quips; HM LindaBurns, Tips & Chips.

Adult Poetry—1st Michael Wingo; QuarryQuips; 5th Kim Vasper, The Post Rock; 7thLisa Scheibmeir, Quarry Quips.

Mini Bulletins—3rd The Huachuca Diggers,Ingrid Baillie, Editor.

Small Bulletins—2nd The Post Rock, SaraMurphy, Editor; 3rd Quarry Quips, Carolyn

White, Editor; 10th News & Views, Reed Pen-dleton, Editor.

Large Bulletins—6th T-Town Rockhound,Scott Robb, Editor; 7th Tips & Chips, BethSimmons, Editor; HM Flatirons Facets, BarryKnapp, Editor.

Special Publications—3rd Lois Larson, ThePost Rock.

Again, congratulations to all our winners! I hope you’ve been providing the club editors withmore great articles this year for the 2013 contest. It’s not too late to warm up the old keyboardand whip out a few winning words. Don’t forget, we’ve added Picture Stories as a new categoryin the RMFMS contest for all you shutter bugs.

You are my heroes!

A t the recent AFMS show (agates and more agates) in the Twin Citiesarea, I noticed that at least three dealers had “Crowley’s Ridge Ag-

ates” for sale. I sort of knew about the general geology of Crowley’s Ridgebut did not realize the rocks in the area produced agates. Since I thoughtthe Ridge was composed of wind-blown sediments sitting on top of a fewTertiary rocks, my curiosity asked where were the agates being collected?What is the source of the agates? And then the big question—what do I really know about thegeology of Arkansas?Readers of the RMFMS Newsletter might notice that several of my articles have focused on thecentral states of the Federation, especially Colorado and Kansas---my current home and mypast home; I am most familiar with the geology of those states. However, I have “branched out”and recent issues of the Colorado Springs Pick&Pack (www.csms.us), and my blog atwww.csmsgeologypost.blogspot.com have focused on the geology and minerals of Wyoming,South Dakota, and Utah.These deep thoughts gave me an idea—perhaps over the next several months I could cobbletogether enough information about the Federation states to contribute a series of articles to the

[email protected],www.csmsgeologypost.b

logspot.com

Fig. 1. Sketch map showing physiographic regions of Arkansas.Map from Arkansas Geological Survey.

Fig. 2. Northeast Arkansas showinglocation of Crowley’s Ridge. Map fromArkansas Geological Survey.

Fig. 3. Crowley’s Ridge Agate. Photo lifted from EBay.


Failed Rift. About 500 Ma. (Cambrian), or perhaps earlier, the bedrockin the continent begin to rift apart, much like the rifting geologists seetoday in the Red Sea in the Middle East. At the north end, near Cairo,Illinois, the rift takes a dog leg to the east where the basin is termedthe Rough Creek Graben. Both features are bounded by lateral faults.Had the rifting continued, then two (or more) new continental plateswould have been created and Arkansas would be a “foreign country”!In fact an acquaintance of mine from near Toad Suck, Arkansas, be-lieves they are in a different country! However, for some reason therifting stopped after the center had down-dropped, and the basin beginfilling with perhaps a mile or more of marine clastic and limestonerocks. Beginning in the late Paleozoic and continuing into the Creta-ceous a series of igneous rocks were intruded into the area, probablyalong the boundary faults. By the end of the Cretaceous, and lastingthrough the Eocene, the rifting was reactivated and the MississippiEmbayment formed and received sediments, some marine, throughoutthe remainder of the Tertiary. By the Pleistocene, glacial meltwaterflooded the area depositing sands and gravels in a braided streamcomplex. It was not until the Holocene (last 10 k years) that the mod-ern meander system of the River formed. (above history from Croneand Schweig, 1994).Today the Reelfoot Rift Zone is being laterally compressed (the opposite of rifting) in an east-west direction and reactivating the oldfaults with the result being earthquakes! The New Madrid Seismic Zone is the most active tectonic zone east of the Rocky Moun-tains and is responsible for the 1811-12 earthquakes (remember the story about the Mississippi River running backward) that liter-ally were felt across the eastern U.S. and perhaps the strongest in modern history. In addition, a more recent earthquake with amagnitude 7.7 rattled the country in May 2011 (Anonymous, 2011).West of the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain is the West Gulf Coastal Plain, also part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain Physiographic Re-gion (Fig. 1). Most of the Plain outcrops in Arkansas are poorly consolidated, flat-lying, off-lapping rocks of Cretaceous, Tertiary

and Quaternary age. Cretaceous rocks are mostly shallow marine andrepresent poorly consolidated sediments of the proto Gulf of Mexico. TheTertiary rocks are alluvial, flood plain, swamp, and shallow water marine.Lignitic coal beds are common (Fig. 4). Minerals present include gyp-sum, chalk, marl, barite, celestite, greensand, and ilmenite; however,collectable outcrops are tough to locate (Howard, 2007 revised). Per-haps the most interesting items noted from the Cretaceous rocks are afew scattered dinosaur bones and several thousand dinosaur tracks.The Ozark Plateau Physiographic Province, part of the Interior High-lands, covers the northern part of Arkansas, north of the Arkansas River(Fig. 1); however, the province is more widespread in Missouri and alsoextends into northeastern Oklahoma and southeastern Kansas. The St.Francis Mountains (exposures of Precambrian igneous and volcanicrocks) in the Missouri section are the tectonic center of this domal upliftand rocks dip gently away from the core (generally to the south in Arkan-sas). Tectonically, the Ozarks are an intracratonic uplift that seemed tofluctuate above and below sea level throughout the Paleozoic. Geolo-gists are uncertain as to the cause of this uplift as the Ozarks are notclose to the edge of a tectonic plate (Brown, 2004). Generally, Ordovi-cian through Mississippian rocks are shallow water limestones and dolo-mites (the Precambrian and Cambrian rocks are in the subsurface) whilePennsylvanian rocks are sandstones and shales.

Although most refer to the Ozarks as “mountains”, the relief is caused, not by uplift, but by streams cutting downward through theplateau (Fig. 5). The Salem Plateau is the lowest part of the Ozarks (elevation ~1500 feet) and Ordovician carbonates predomi-nant. The Springfield Plateau, a few hundred feet higher than the Salem (~1800 feet) is held up by Mississippian cherty lime-stones; karst topography and caves are common. The most rugged part of the Ozarks is an area known as the Boston Mountains(~2600 feet) where Pennsylvanian clastics, shales and sandstones, form the surface (McFarland, 2004).The Ouachita physiographic Region (Fig. 1) has two distinct subdivisions: 1) the Arkansas River Valley running east-west acrossthe state; and 2) the Ouachita Mountains to the south.The Arkansas River Valley is an interesting area since it provides an outlet to the Mississippi River for the Arkansas River, a streamof 1469 miles of length that starts in the high mountains of Colorado. The river has meandered across the central valley leavingbehind a wide flood plain deposited on top of folded, Ouachita-style rocks--Pennsylvanian sandstones and shales (originally depos-ited in deltas and near shore marine environments). The really interesting landforms in the valley are the numerous synclines andanticlines that erode as positive features and project above the floodplain (Fig. 6; monadnocks) (Foti, 2008). In fact, I once visitedthe summit of Petit Jean Mountain in the Valley at an elevation of 2460 feet, not much lower than Mount Magazine, the highestpoint in Arkansas at 2753 feet, and also situated in the Valley.South of the Arkansas River Valley are the Ouachita Mountains, an area of folded ridges and valleys (Fig. 1). Clastic Paleozoicrocks predominant, as opposed to limey rocks in the Ozark Mountains (deposition in a shallow marine environment the continental

shelf). During most of the Paleozoic, in whatis now the Ouachitas, a deep offshore abys-sal plain, perhaps more than 3000 feet be-low sea level, was to be found (ArkansasGeological Survey, 2012). The Ouachitasare actually related to the AppalachianMountains, in fact a continuation of theseMountains separated on the surface by theMississippi River Embayment, but very no-ticeable in the subsurface.So, these folded mountains have an interest-ing geological history--with deposition in adeepwater basin during the Ordovician andDevonian but a wild change in the Mississip-pian and Pennsylvanian. During this laterPaleozoic “action” what is now South Amer-ica collided with Laurentia (the geologicalname for what is now the North Americancontinent). The rocks and sediments in themarine basin were thrust up on the continentat this convergent plate boundary. This colli-sion, known as the Ouachita Orogeny, com-pressed and folded the rocks as they werethrust northward. The structures are easilyseen in Fig. 7. Perhaps as much as 50,000feet of Paleozoic rocks, much of it blackshale, quartzose sandstone, or bedded chertrocks are present. The rocks and structuresare quite complex (see J. Calvert, 2007 at:http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/geol/ouach.htmfor additional history). Geologists out here inColorado believe the formation of the Ances-tral Rocky Mountains is related to this colli-sional event.

This concludes Part 1 of Arkansas. Part 2 with interesting minerals, collecting localities, and road logs will appear in a later news-letter (hopefully next month). If I have thrown out too much geological jargon, I apologize. For a review of geological time and thetime scale see: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/geo_time_scale.html

REFERENCES CITED:Arkansas Geological Survey. 2012, General Ge-ology: http://www.geology.ar.gov/geology/general_geology.htmAnonymous, 2011, Poster of the New MadridEarthquake Scenario of 16 May 2011 - Magni-tude 7.7: www.earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/2011/20110516.phpBrown, S. R., 2004, Process and Timing of Upliftin the Ozark Plateau, Missouri: Geological Soci-ety of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36,No. 5.Crone, A.J., and Schweig, E.S., compilers, 1994,Fault number 1023, Reelfoot Scarp and NewMadrid Seismic Zone, in Quaternary Fault andFold Database of the United States: http://earthquakes.usgs.gov/regional/qfaultsHoward, J. M., 1987, with revision 2007, MineralSpecies of Arkansas, a Digest: Arkansas Geo-logical Survey Bulletin 123.McFarland, J. D., 2004, Stratigraphic Summaryof Arkansas: Arkansas Geological Commission,Information Circular 36.

Fig. 4. Exposure of lignite in the Tertiary Wilcox Formation.Photo from Arkansas Geological Survey.

Fig. 5. Sketch map showing location of the Ozark Provinceand its subdivisions. Map from Wikipedia.

Fig. 6. Monadnocks, curving ridges of resistant rocks that structurally are anticlines orsynclines, in the Arkansas River Valley. Photo from Google Earth.

Fig. 7. Folded Paleozoic rocks in theOuachita province. Gently dippingrocks of the Coastal Plain (southernpart of photo) lap onto the foldedrocks. Photo from Google Earth.


Failed Rift. About 500 Ma. (Cambrian), or perhaps earlier, the bedrockin the continent begin to rift apart, much like the rifting geologists seetoday in the Red Sea in the Middle East. At the north end, near Cairo,Illinois, the rift takes a dog leg to the east where the basin is termedthe Rough Creek Graben. Both features are bounded by lateral faults.Had the rifting continued, then two (or more) new continental plateswould have been created and Arkansas would be a “foreign country”!In fact an acquaintance of mine from near Toad Suck, Arkansas, be-lieves they are in a different country! However, for some reason therifting stopped after the center had down-dropped, and the basin beginfilling with perhaps a mile or more of marine clastic and limestonerocks. Beginning in the late Paleozoic and continuing into the Creta-ceous a series of igneous rocks were intruded into the area, probablyalong the boundary faults. By the end of the Cretaceous, and lastingthrough the Eocene, the rifting was reactivated and the MississippiEmbayment formed and received sediments, some marine, throughoutthe remainder of the Tertiary. By the Pleistocene, glacial meltwaterflooded the area depositing sands and gravels in a braided streamcomplex. It was not until the Holocene (last 10 k years) that the mod-ern meander system of the River formed. (above history from Croneand Schweig, 1994).Today the Reelfoot Rift Zone is being laterally compressed (the opposite of rifting) in an east-west direction and reactivating the oldfaults with the result being earthquakes! The New Madrid Seismic Zone is the most active tectonic zone east of the Rocky Moun-tains and is responsible for the 1811-12 earthquakes (remember the story about the Mississippi River running backward) that liter-ally were felt across the eastern U.S. and perhaps the strongest in modern history. In addition, a more recent earthquake with amagnitude 7.7 rattled the country in May 2011 (Anonymous, 2011).West of the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain is the West Gulf Coastal Plain, also part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain Physiographic Re-gion (Fig. 1). Most of the Plain outcrops in Arkansas are poorly consolidated, flat-lying, off-lapping rocks of Cretaceous, Tertiary

and Quaternary age. Cretaceous rocks are mostly shallow marine andrepresent poorly consolidated sediments of the proto Gulf of Mexico. TheTertiary rocks are alluvial, flood plain, swamp, and shallow water marine.Lignitic coal beds are common (Fig. 4). Minerals present include gyp-sum, chalk, marl, barite, celestite, greensand, and ilmenite; however,collectable outcrops are tough to locate (Howard, 2007 revised). Per-haps the most interesting items noted from the Cretaceous rocks are afew scattered dinosaur bones and several thousand dinosaur tracks.The Ozark Plateau Physiographic Province, part of the Interior High-lands, covers the northern part of Arkansas, north of the Arkansas River(Fig. 1); however, the province is more widespread in Missouri and alsoextends into northeastern Oklahoma and southeastern Kansas. The St.Francis Mountains (exposures of Precambrian igneous and volcanicrocks) in the Missouri section are the tectonic center of this domal upliftand rocks dip gently away from the core (generally to the south in Arkan-sas). Tectonically, the Ozarks are an intracratonic uplift that seemed tofluctuate above and below sea level throughout the Paleozoic. Geolo-gists are uncertain as to the cause of this uplift as the Ozarks are notclose to the edge of a tectonic plate (Brown, 2004). Generally, Ordovi-cian through Mississippian rocks are shallow water limestones and dolo-mites (the Precambrian and Cambrian rocks are in the subsurface) whilePennsylvanian rocks are sandstones and shales.

Although most refer to the Ozarks as “mountains”, the relief is caused, not by uplift, but by streams cutting downward through theplateau (Fig. 5). The Salem Plateau is the lowest part of the Ozarks (elevation ~1500 feet) and Ordovician carbonates predomi-nant. The Springfield Plateau, a few hundred feet higher than the Salem (~1800 feet) is held up by Mississippian cherty lime-stones; karst topography and caves are common. The most rugged part of the Ozarks is an area known as the Boston Mountains(~2600 feet) where Pennsylvanian clastics, shales and sandstones, form the surface (McFarland, 2004).The Ouachita physiographic Region (Fig. 1) has two distinct subdivisions: 1) the Arkansas River Valley running east-west acrossthe state; and 2) the Ouachita Mountains to the south.The Arkansas River Valley is an interesting area since it provides an outlet to the Mississippi River for the Arkansas River, a streamof 1469 miles of length that starts in the high mountains of Colorado. The river has meandered across the central valley leavingbehind a wide flood plain deposited on top of folded, Ouachita-style rocks--Pennsylvanian sandstones and shales (originally depos-ited in deltas and near shore marine environments). The really interesting landforms in the valley are the numerous synclines andanticlines that erode as positive features and project above the floodplain (Fig. 6; monadnocks) (Foti, 2008). In fact, I once visitedthe summit of Petit Jean Mountain in the Valley at an elevation of 2460 feet, not much lower than Mount Magazine, the highestpoint in Arkansas at 2753 feet, and also situated in the Valley.South of the Arkansas River Valley are the Ouachita Mountains, an area of folded ridges and valleys (Fig. 1). Clastic Paleozoicrocks predominant, as opposed to limey rocks in the Ozark Mountains (deposition in a shallow marine environment the continental

shelf). During most of the Paleozoic, in whatis now the Ouachitas, a deep offshore abys-sal plain, perhaps more than 3000 feet be-low sea level, was to be found (ArkansasGeological Survey, 2012). The Ouachitasare actually related to the AppalachianMountains, in fact a continuation of theseMountains separated on the surface by theMississippi River Embayment, but very no-ticeable in the subsurface.So, these folded mountains have an interest-ing geological history--with deposition in adeepwater basin during the Ordovician andDevonian but a wild change in the Mississip-pian and Pennsylvanian. During this laterPaleozoic “action” what is now South Amer-ica collided with Laurentia (the geologicalname for what is now the North Americancontinent). The rocks and sediments in themarine basin were thrust up on the continentat this convergent plate boundary. This colli-sion, known as the Ouachita Orogeny, com-pressed and folded the rocks as they werethrust northward. The structures are easilyseen in Fig. 7. Perhaps as much as 50,000feet of Paleozoic rocks, much of it blackshale, quartzose sandstone, or bedded chertrocks are present. The rocks and structuresare quite complex (see J. Calvert, 2007 at:http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/geol/ouach.htmfor additional history). Geologists out here inColorado believe the formation of the Ances-tral Rocky Mountains is related to this colli-sional event.

This concludes Part 1 of Arkansas. Part 2 with interesting minerals, collecting localities, and road logs will appear in a later news-letter (hopefully next month). If I have thrown out too much geological jargon, I apologize. For a review of geological time and thetime scale see: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/geo_time_scale.html

REFERENCES CITED:Arkansas Geological Survey. 2012, General Ge-ology: http://www.geology.ar.gov/geology/general_geology.htmAnonymous, 2011, Poster of the New MadridEarthquake Scenario of 16 May 2011 - Magni-tude 7.7: www.earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/2011/20110516.phpBrown, S. R., 2004, Process and Timing of Upliftin the Ozark Plateau, Missouri: Geological Soci-ety of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36,No. 5.Crone, A.J., and Schweig, E.S., compilers, 1994,Fault number 1023, Reelfoot Scarp and NewMadrid Seismic Zone, in Quaternary Fault andFold Database of the United States: http://earthquakes.usgs.gov/regional/qfaultsHoward, J. M., 1987, with revision 2007, MineralSpecies of Arkansas, a Digest: Arkansas Geo-logical Survey Bulletin 123.McFarland, J. D., 2004, Stratigraphic Summaryof Arkansas: Arkansas Geological Commission,Information Circular 36.

Fig. 4. Exposure of lignite in the Tertiary Wilcox Formation.Photo from Arkansas Geological Survey.

Fig. 5. Sketch map showing location of the Ozark Provinceand its subdivisions. Map from Wikipedia.

Fig. 6. Monadnocks, curving ridges of resistant rocks that structurally are anticlines orsynclines, in the Arkansas River Valley. Photo from Google Earth.

Fig. 7. Folded Paleozoic rocks in theOuachita province. Gently dippingrocks of the Coastal Plain (southernpart of photo) lap onto the foldedrocks. Photo from Google Earth.


CCOLORADOOLORADO P PEBBLEEBBLE P PUPSUPS G GOO ‘S ‘SOCIALOCIAL’’ EDITOR

In order to have fast communication with the pebble pups and junior members of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Soci-ety (CSMS) and the Lake George Gem and Mineral Club (LGGMC), the leaders are using Facebook as a way to share infor-

mation, especially field trips that might be on short notice. The CSMS and the LGGMC are known informally as the Pikes PeakPebble Pups as both groups work closely on field trips, researched writing, earth science poetry, and other interesting activities.

Hopes are that the Western Interior Paleontology Society Fossil Kids and the Boulder Pebble Pups will "like" them on Face-book and continue to participate in the Pikes Peak Pebble Pups activities.

The Pebble Pups leaders located a new site for beryl crystals, large garnets, and feldspar crystals the size of a mail box. The peb-ble pups will be organizing a field trip to this site very soon. The Boulder and WIPS groups will be invited. To view the preliminaryreport, please go to this BLOG: http://pebblepups.blogspot.com/.

“Like” them on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/PikesPeakPebblePups.

AARIZONARIZONA M MINERALINERAL C COLLECTOROLLECTOR——NNUMBERUMBER 150 150 BY DR. RAYMOND GRANTVia The Rockhound Record - August-September 2012

Maybe this month’s column should be the Arizona Rock Collector instead of Mineral Collector. Have you ever heard aboutmarekanite? I don’t remember ever hearing the term, but found it in a 1969 publication Mineral and Water Resources of Ari-

zona. I Googled it and found all kinds of great stuff. Marekanite is another term for Apache Tears and named after some river inRussia. The search led me to a website, Sources of Archaeological Obsidian in the Greater American Southwest:(www.swxrflab.net/swobsrcs.htm).

There is an interactive map of the Apache Tears locations in the Southwest. The map has nine locations in Arizona and a coupleon the New Mexico - Arizona border, and many others in the surrounding states. There are also a couple of additional Arizona loca-tions in the text. You click on the location on the map and a detailed description of each of the locations comes up. There is Town-ship, range, and section data given for each locality, a fairly detailed description of what was found there and in some cases photo-graphs and maps. There is a lot of chemical data for the obsidian, as the goal was to identify the sources of obsidian used by pre-

historic people. The obsidian from each of the various localities has aunique composition. For example, 220 samples of obsidian were analyzedfrom Pueblo Grande in Phoenix. Four were from the Sand Tanks location,67 were from the Sauceda Mountains locality, and so forth.

The one location that caught my attention was Topaz Basin in YavapaiCounty. It is not on the website map but in the text. I checked the USGSArizona Place Names Gazetter, and there is an official place, Topaz Ba-sin. It is close to Interstate 17, by the route 169 turnoff. The website statesthe archeological investigators found no topaz and that perhaps the smallclear obsidian nodules they found were misidentified as topaz. Soundslike a place to visit.

AFMS CAFMS CLUBLUB R ROCKHOUNDOCKHOUND OFOF THETHE Y YEAREAR (ACROY) (ACROY) BY BILL CAIN, ACROY CHAIR

OUR PRESIDENT THANKS YOU, OUR VICE PRESIDENT THANKS YOU, OUR EDITOR THANKS YOU, AND, MOST OF ALL, I THANK YOU!!KEEP “EM COMING.

SHAWNEE GEM & MINERAL CLUB

The Shawnee Gem & Mineral Club is happy to nominate Mr. George Dahl Finley as their AFMS Club Rockhound of the Year.George was one of the first members when the club was formed back in 1989. George has served us a past president, vice

president, and editor. He also severed as past president of the Rollin’ Rock Club and the Oklahoma State Council and secretary/treasurer for the Oklahoma State Council.

George is currently retired after 30 years of civil service at Tinker AFB and 23 years at a local bank as a computer operator. Hesays this will be his sixth year of being Santa Claus for the City of Choctaw.

George says one of the greatest things he has gotten out of the rockhounding hobby is all the friends he has made everywhere.George stated, “I believe we should work to teach that being a rockhound is not a bad work, and I hope I leave enough informationfor others to better enjoy the hobby.”

It is a rare meeting of the Shawnee Gem & Mineral Club that we do not see George. Only if he is having health problems does hemiss a meeting. A very devoted and respected member of our club. It is always a pleasure to visit with George at the meetings,and I usually learn something from him. Thanks, George, for all your help and contributions to the club.

Llewellyn Alspach,Shawnee Slate Editor

TULSA ROCK & MINERAL SOCIETY

The Tulsa Rock & Mineral Society is pleased to designate Bob & Nancy Hicks as our AFMS Club Rockhounds of the Year.

Bob & Nancy have been members of our club for many years, holding several offices on our Board of Director and serving onseveral committees. For many years now, they have hosted a get-together at their home in which we have a pot luck lunch, and arock sale and auction that benefit out club’s general and scholarship funds. This event is usually attend by about 50 rockhoundsincluding some from Kansas and Arkansas as well as several Oklahoma clubs. Bob & Nancy have also presented a number ofprograms at our club meetings and help in the working exhibits at our shows. They help instruct new members in lapidary tech-niques at our club workshop. Bob & Nancy Hicks are valuable members of our club who seek to promote our club and hobby andto share their knowledge with others.

Richard JaegerTulsa Rock & Mineral Society

TULSA ROCK & MINERAL SOCIETY—JR ACROY

The Tulsa Rock & Mineral Society is pleased to designate Stephen Rowlett, who is 16, as our AFMS Junior Club Rockhoundof the Year.

Stephen is a life-long member of our club. He always helps out at club’s rock shows by loading materials from our club storagebuilding and helping with the show set up, pitching in wherever he sees work that needs to be done. At the show, he assists in thesilent auction area and also sells grab bags and runs the wheel game. He has worked to fashion rock crafts to be included asprizes on our wheel game. He has helped in many ways at the rockhound oriented Dodrill Museum in Cushing, OK, which is oper-ated by two of our members. Stephen enjoys field trips and collecting fossils. Stephen Rowlett is a hard working individual whohelps our club whenever he can; we are fortunate to have him as a member.


COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY—JR ACROY

Zachary Sepulveda is 14 years old in 10th grade at Palmer Ridge High School in Monument, Colorado. He is from SouthernCalifornia and has been interested in geology and paleontology since he was very young. His objectives for school are to get a

PhD in paleontology at Montana State University. Zach visited Montana State University this summer.

Zach is a member of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society (CSMS) and participates actively in the Pebble Pup/Junior pro-gram. Since becoming a member, he represented the CSMS at the Colorado Springs Science Olympiad at the University of Colo-rado at Colorado Springs where he conducted the mineral testing and scoring portion of the regional middle school students. Healso helped the Pebble Pup/Junior program leader conduct a field program for the Earth Science Students from Emporia State Uni-versity where the leader is an adjunct professor. Zach assisted with conducting all aspects of the college-level field trip. He alsoattended a meeting and field trip of the Florissant Scientific Society, a group of geoscientists that meet at various locations alongthe Front Range of Colorado each month.

Zach has participated in all of the Pebble Pup/Junior classes and helps teach one where he prepared a PowerPoint program on

Merekanite (Apache Tears) from Superior. This whole sample was originally ob-sidian, but over time the obsidian reacts with water and crystallizes to thewhite perlite.

core sampling and how to determine which core has the most mineral value for mining. Zach has written two paleontology poemsthat have been accepted for publication in Deposits magazine, an international rock, mineral, and fossil publication. His poemshave been published nation-wide in club newsletters. He has written several research papers that have been published.

Recently, Zach assisted the Pebble Pup leader teach a Colorado School of Mines field trip. Zach also represented the CSMS at theOld Colorado City Founder's Day celebration in August where he actively recruited new members for the pebble pup proram. Zachis presently working on a fossil spider project with the head of the arthropoda laboratory at the Paleontological Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

Zach earned an Earth Science Achievement Award from Palmer Ridge High School—the only student in 9th and 10th

grade to earn this award. The award was for outstanding Earth science student.

Zach has done all of these things since he joined the CSMS in January, 2012. Zach is looking forward to working onmore writing and research projects and participating in field trips.

Steven VeatchCSMS Pebble Pups/Junior Leader


CCOLORADOOLORADO P PEBBLEEBBLE P PUPSUPS G GOO ‘S ‘SOCIALOCIAL’’ EDITOR

In order to have fast communication with the pebble pups and junior members of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Soci-ety (CSMS) and the Lake George Gem and Mineral Club (LGGMC), the leaders are using Facebook as a way to share infor-

mation, especially field trips that might be on short notice. The CSMS and the LGGMC are known informally as the Pikes PeakPebble Pups as both groups work closely on field trips, researched writing, earth science poetry, and other interesting activities.

Hopes are that the Western Interior Paleontology Society Fossil Kids and the Boulder Pebble Pups will "like" them on Face-book and continue to participate in the Pikes Peak Pebble Pups activities.

The Pebble Pups leaders located a new site for beryl crystals, large garnets, and feldspar crystals the size of a mail box. The peb-ble pups will be organizing a field trip to this site very soon. The Boulder and WIPS groups will be invited. To view the preliminaryreport, please go to this BLOG: http://pebblepups.blogspot.com/.

“Like” them on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/PikesPeakPebblePups.

AARIZONARIZONA M MINERALINERAL C COLLECTOROLLECTOR——NNUMBERUMBER 150 150 BY DR. RAYMOND GRANTVia The Rockhound Record - August-September 2012

Maybe this month’s column should be the Arizona Rock Collector instead of Mineral Collector. Have you ever heard aboutmarekanite? I don’t remember ever hearing the term, but found it in a 1969 publication Mineral and Water Resources of Ari-

zona. I Googled it and found all kinds of great stuff. Marekanite is another term for Apache Tears and named after some river inRussia. The search led me to a website, Sources of Archaeological Obsidian in the Greater American Southwest:(www.swxrflab.net/swobsrcs.htm).

There is an interactive map of the Apache Tears locations in the Southwest. The map has nine locations in Arizona and a coupleon the New Mexico - Arizona border, and many others in the surrounding states. There are also a couple of additional Arizona loca-tions in the text. You click on the location on the map and a detailed description of each of the locations comes up. There is Town-ship, range, and section data given for each locality, a fairly detailed description of what was found there and in some cases photo-graphs and maps. There is a lot of chemical data for the obsidian, as the goal was to identify the sources of obsidian used by pre-

historic people. The obsidian from each of the various localities has aunique composition. For example, 220 samples of obsidian were analyzedfrom Pueblo Grande in Phoenix. Four were from the Sand Tanks location,67 were from the Sauceda Mountains locality, and so forth.

The one location that caught my attention was Topaz Basin in YavapaiCounty. It is not on the website map but in the text. I checked the USGSArizona Place Names Gazetter, and there is an official place, Topaz Ba-sin. It is close to Interstate 17, by the route 169 turnoff. The website statesthe archeological investigators found no topaz and that perhaps the smallclear obsidian nodules they found were misidentified as topaz. Soundslike a place to visit.

AFMS CAFMS CLUBLUB R ROCKHOUNDOCKHOUND OFOF THETHE Y YEAREAR (ACROY) (ACROY) BY BILL CAIN, ACROY CHAIR

OUR PRESIDENT THANKS YOU, OUR VICE PRESIDENT THANKS YOU, OUR EDITOR THANKS YOU, AND, MOST OF ALL, I THANK YOU!!KEEP “EM COMING.

SHAWNEE GEM & MINERAL CLUB

The Shawnee Gem & Mineral Club is happy to nominate Mr. George Dahl Finley as their AFMS Club Rockhound of the Year.George was one of the first members when the club was formed back in 1989. George has served us a past president, vice

president, and editor. He also severed as past president of the Rollin’ Rock Club and the Oklahoma State Council and secretary/treasurer for the Oklahoma State Council.

George is currently retired after 30 years of civil service at Tinker AFB and 23 years at a local bank as a computer operator. Hesays this will be his sixth year of being Santa Claus for the City of Choctaw.

George says one of the greatest things he has gotten out of the rockhounding hobby is all the friends he has made everywhere.George stated, “I believe we should work to teach that being a rockhound is not a bad work, and I hope I leave enough informationfor others to better enjoy the hobby.”

It is a rare meeting of the Shawnee Gem & Mineral Club that we do not see George. Only if he is having health problems does hemiss a meeting. A very devoted and respected member of our club. It is always a pleasure to visit with George at the meetings,and I usually learn something from him. Thanks, George, for all your help and contributions to the club.

Llewellyn Alspach,Shawnee Slate Editor

TULSA ROCK & MINERAL SOCIETY

The Tulsa Rock & Mineral Society is pleased to designate Bob & Nancy Hicks as our AFMS Club Rockhounds of the Year.

Bob & Nancy have been members of our club for many years, holding several offices on our Board of Director and serving onseveral committees. For many years now, they have hosted a get-together at their home in which we have a pot luck lunch, and arock sale and auction that benefit out club’s general and scholarship funds. This event is usually attend by about 50 rockhoundsincluding some from Kansas and Arkansas as well as several Oklahoma clubs. Bob & Nancy have also presented a number ofprograms at our club meetings and help in the working exhibits at our shows. They help instruct new members in lapidary tech-niques at our club workshop. Bob & Nancy Hicks are valuable members of our club who seek to promote our club and hobby andto share their knowledge with others.


TULSA ROCK & MINERAL SOCIETY—JR ACROY

The Tulsa Rock & Mineral Society is pleased to designate Stephen Rowlett, who is 16, as our AFMS Junior Club Rockhoundof the Year.

Stephen is a life-long member of our club. He always helps out at club’s rock shows by loading materials from our club storagebuilding and helping with the show set up, pitching in wherever he sees work that needs to be done. At the show, he assists in thesilent auction area and also sells grab bags and runs the wheel game. He has worked to fashion rock crafts to be included asprizes on our wheel game. He has helped in many ways at the rockhound oriented Dodrill Museum in Cushing, OK, which is oper-ated by two of our members. Stephen enjoys field trips and collecting fossils. Stephen Rowlett is a hard working individual whohelps our club whenever he can; we are fortunate to have him as a member.


COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY—JR ACROY

Zachary Sepulveda is 14 years old in 10th grade at Palmer Ridge High School in Monument, Colorado. He is from SouthernCalifornia and has been interested in geology and paleontology since he was very young. His objectives for school are to get a

PhD in paleontology at Montana State University. Zach visited Montana State University this summer.

Zach is a member of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society (CSMS) and participates actively in the Pebble Pup/Junior pro-gram. Since becoming a member, he represented the CSMS at the Colorado Springs Science Olympiad at the University of Colo-rado at Colorado Springs where he conducted the mineral testing and scoring portion of the regional middle school students. Healso helped the Pebble Pup/Junior program leader conduct a field program for the Earth Science Students from Emporia State Uni-versity where the leader is an adjunct professor. Zach assisted with conducting all aspects of the college-level field trip. He alsoattended a meeting and field trip of the Florissant Scientific Society, a group of geoscientists that meet at various locations alongthe Front Range of Colorado each month.

Zach has participated in all of the Pebble Pup/Junior classes and helps teach one where he prepared a PowerPoint program on

Merekanite (Apache Tears) from Superior. This whole sample was originally ob-sidian, but over time the obsidian reacts with water and crystallizes to thewhite perlite.

core sampling and how to determine which core has the most mineral value for mining. Zach has written two paleontology poemsthat have been accepted for publication in Deposits magazine, an international rock, mineral, and fossil publication. His poemshave been published nation-wide in club newsletters. He has written several research papers that have been published.

Recently, Zach assisted the Pebble Pup leader teach a Colorado School of Mines field trip. Zach also represented the CSMS at theOld Colorado City Founder's Day celebration in August where he actively recruited new members for the pebble pup proram. Zachis presently working on a fossil spider project with the head of the arthropoda laboratory at the Paleontological Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

Zach earned an Earth Science Achievement Award from Palmer Ridge High School—the only student in 9th and 10th

grade to earn this award. The award was for outstanding Earth science student.

Zach has done all of these things since he joined the CSMS in January, 2012. Zach is looking forward to working onmore writing and research projects and participating in field trips.

Steven VeatchCSMS Pebble Pups/Junior Leader


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What Can I Do to Prevent WNV?Prevention measures consist of community-based mosquito control programs that are able to reduce vector populations, personalprotection measures to reduce the likelihood of being bitten by infected mosquitoes, and the underlying surveillance programs thatcharacterize spatial/temporal patterns in risk that allow health and vector control agencies to target their interventions and resources.

The easiest and best way to avoid WNV is to prevent mosquito bites. When you are outdoors, use insect repellent containing an EPA-registered active ingredient.

Follow the directions on the package. Many mosquitoes are most active at dusk and dawn. Besure to use insect repellent and wear long sleeves and pants at these times or consider stayingindoors during these hours.

Make sure you have good screens on your windows and doors to keep mosquitoes out. Get rid of mosquito breeding sites by emptying standing water from flower pots, buckets and

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Milder Symptoms in Some People. Up to 20 percent of the people who become infected have symptoms such as fever, headache,and body aches, nausea, vomiting, and sometimes swollen lymph glands or a skin rash on the chest, stomach and back. Symptomscan last for as short as a few days, though even healthy people have become sick for several weeks.

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sions, organ transplants, breast-feeding and even during pregnancy from mother to baby. Not through touching. WNV is not spread through casual contact such as touching or kissing a person with the virus.

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How Is WNV Infection Treated?There is no specific treatment for WNV infection. In cases with milder symptoms, people experience symptoms such as fever andaches that pass on their own, although even healthy people have become sick for several weeks. In more severe cases, people usu-ally need to go to the hospital where they can receive supportive treatment including intravenous fluids, help with breathing and nurs-ing care.

What Is the Risk of Getting Sick from WNV? People over 50 at higher risk to get severe illness. People over the age of 50 are more likely to develop serious symptoms of WNV if

they do get sick and should take special care to avoid mosquito bites. Being outside means you're at risk. The more time you're outdoors, the more time you could be bitten by an infected mosquito. Pay

attention to avoiding mosquito bites if you spend a lot of time outside, either working or playing. Risk through medical procedures is very low. All donated blood is checked for WNV before being used. The risk of getting WNV

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Some things the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is doing include: Manage and maintain ArboNET, a nation-wide electronic surveillance system where states share information about WNV and

other arboviral diseases Support states develop and carry out improved mosquito prevention and control programs Developing better, faster tests to detect and diagnose WNV Prepare updated prevention and surveillance information for the media, the public, and health professionals Working with partners on the development of vaccines

A TA TOWNOWN N NAMEDAMED MARBLE! MARBLE! BY BETH SIMMONS, DENVER GEM & MINERAL GUILD

PHOTOS BY MARJIE PAYNE, SKETCHES BY ARTHUR LAKES

Colorado probably has more towns named for rocks and minerals than any other state. Themost famous is Marble, the home of the Yule Marble, Colorado’s state rock. Marble is

baked limestone that has been under great heat and pressure. The pure white Yule Marble wasthe dark gray Mississippian-aged Leadville Limestone in its first life on Earth. When a hot vol-canic laccolith intruded the layers of limestone, the organic black substances burnt off and leftwhite statuary marble purer than the famed white Carrera marble from Italy. Other marbles,clouded, dove-colored, green-serpentine, and black varieties, underlie the main deposit at Mar-ble and Crystal.

George Yule, a mining engineer, first recognized the value of the marble deposit. The town ofMarble incorporated in 1899. In 1905 Colonel Channing Meek, with some help from the Rocke-fellers, raised $2.5 million to develop the Colorado Yule Marble Quarry.

Unlimited sizes of blocks of marble came from the huge quarry, with the largest being the Tombof the Unknowns in Arlington Cemetery which had to be replaced recently. In addition to provid-ing the marble for the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials in Washington, D.C., the columns of theCuyahoga County Court House in Cleveland, Ohio, came from Marble. Other columns—for theNewhouse office building at Salt Lake City, the National Bank of New York, and eight columnsfor the Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake City—along with slabs for the exterior and interior of thechurch came from the quarry in 1909.

In 1910, twelve hundred lived in the village of “Marble City,” at the base of Whitehouse Moun-tain; 400 men were on the payroll at the mine. The marble working mill, with all the “newestappliances” and its own abundant water and electric power, produced 200,000 cubic feet ofmarble. Blocks were sawn into slabs and polished, using steel with concrete foundations.

The marble quarry was worked intermittently through the 20th century, as concrete replacedmuch of the traditional building uses. Presently an Italian company owns the mine, quarryingstone for sculpture, much sent to Europe where it is passed off as true Italian Carrera marble.Tours of the mine are NOT available. The Marble Institute hosts an annual marble sculptingsymposium in Marble; Marjie and Joe Payne participated in 2010.

References:Lakes, Arthur, “Limestone and Dolomites,” Mines and Minerals, November 1902, p. 183Lakes, Arthur, “Some Remarkably Fine Marble Quarries in Colo.,” The Mining World, March 19,1190, p. 609-611

Lakes, 1910, p. 610

Lakes, 1910, p. 610

Lakes, 1910, p. 611Lakes, 1902, p. 183

Left: Cuyahoga CountyCourt House, Ohio

Right:Tomb of the

Unknowns,ArlingtonNational

Cemetery


PPREVENTREVENT M MOSQUITOOSQUITO B BITESITES SOURCE: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)

A single mosquito bite can make you sick. Why take a chance? Use repellent on yourself, your friends and your family.

Many people who are bitten by an infected mosquito won't get sick—many others aren't as lucky. Since 1999, more than 30,000people in the United States have been reported as getting sick with West Nile virus.

What Can I Do to Prevent WNV?Prevention measures consist of community-based mosquito control programs that are able to reduce vector populations, personalprotection measures to reduce the likelihood of being bitten by infected mosquitoes, and the underlying surveillance programs thatcharacterize spatial/temporal patterns in risk that allow health and vector control agencies to target their interventions and resources.

The easiest and best way to avoid WNV is to prevent mosquito bites. When you are outdoors, use insect repellent containing an EPA-registered active ingredient.

Follow the directions on the package. Many mosquitoes are most active at dusk and dawn. Besure to use insect repellent and wear long sleeves and pants at these times or consider stayingindoors during these hours.

Make sure you have good screens on your windows and doors to keep mosquitoes out. Get rid of mosquito breeding sites by emptying standing water from flower pots, buckets and

barrels. Change the water in pet dishes and replace the water in bird baths weekly. Drill holes intire swings so water drains out. Keep children's wading pools empty and on their sides whenthey aren't being used.

What Are the Symptoms of WNV? About one in 150 people infected with WNV will develop severe illness. The severe symptoms can include high fever, headache,

neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness and paralysis. Thesesymptoms may last several weeks, and neurological effects may be permanent.

Milder Symptoms in Some People. Up to 20 percent of the people who become infected have symptoms such as fever, headache,and body aches, nausea, vomiting, and sometimes swollen lymph glands or a skin rash on the chest, stomach and back. Symptomscan last for as short as a few days, though even healthy people have become sick for several weeks.

No Symptoms in Most People. Approximately 80 percent of people (about 4 out of 5) who are infected with WNV will not show anysymptoms at all.

How Does West Nile Virus Spread? Infected Mosquitoes. Most often, WNV is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. Mosquitoes become infected when they feed

on infected birds. Infected mosquitoes can then spread WNV to humans and other animals when they bite. Transfusions, Transplants, and Mother-to-Child. In a very small number of cases, WNV also has been spread through blood transfu-

sions, organ transplants, breast-feeding and even during pregnancy from mother to baby. Not through touching. WNV is not spread through casual contact such as touching or kissing a person with the virus.

How Soon Do Infected People Get Sick?People typically develop symptoms between 3 and 14 days after they are bitten by the infected mosquito.

How Is WNV Infection Treated?There is no specific treatment for WNV infection. In cases with milder symptoms, people experience symptoms such as fever andaches that pass on their own, although even healthy people have become sick for several weeks. In more severe cases, people usu-ally need to go to the hospital where they can receive supportive treatment including intravenous fluids, help with breathing and nurs-ing care.

What Is the Risk of Getting Sick from WNV? People over 50 at higher risk to get severe illness. People over the age of 50 are more likely to develop serious symptoms of WNV if

they do get sick and should take special care to avoid mosquito bites. Being outside means you're at risk. The more time you're outdoors, the more time you could be bitten by an infected mosquito. Pay

attention to avoiding mosquito bites if you spend a lot of time outside, either working or playing. Risk through medical procedures is very low. All donated blood is checked for WNV before being used. The risk of getting WNV

through blood transfusions and organ transplants is very small, and should not prevent people who need surgery from having it. I fyou have concerns, talk to your doctor.

Pregnancy and nursing do not increase risk of becoming infected with WNV. The risk that WNV may present to a fetus or an infantinfected through breast milk is still being evaluated. Talk with your care provider if you have concerns.

Some things the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is doing include: Manage and maintain ArboNET, a nation-wide electronic surveillance system where states share information about WNV and

other arboviral diseases Support states develop and carry out improved mosquito prevention and control programs Developing better, faster tests to detect and diagnose WNV Prepare updated prevention and surveillance information for the media, the public, and health professionals Working with partners on the development of vaccines

A TA TOWNOWN N NAMEDAMED MARBLE! MARBLE! BY BETH SIMMONS, DENVER GEM & MINERAL GUILD

PHOTOS BY MARJIE PAYNE, SKETCHES BY ARTHUR LAKES

Colorado probably has more towns named for rocks and minerals than any other state. Themost famous is Marble, the home of the Yule Marble, Colorado’s state rock. Marble is

baked limestone that has been under great heat and pressure. The pure white Yule Marble wasthe dark gray Mississippian-aged Leadville Limestone in its first life on Earth. When a hot vol-canic laccolith intruded the layers of limestone, the organic black substances burnt off and leftwhite statuary marble purer than the famed white Carrera marble from Italy. Other marbles,clouded, dove-colored, green-serpentine, and black varieties, underlie the main deposit at Mar-ble and Crystal.

George Yule, a mining engineer, first recognized the value of the marble deposit. The town ofMarble incorporated in 1899. In 1905 Colonel Channing Meek, with some help from the Rocke-fellers, raised $2.5 million to develop the Colorado Yule Marble Quarry.

Unlimited sizes of blocks of marble came from the huge quarry, with the largest being the Tombof the Unknowns in Arlington Cemetery which had to be replaced recently. In addition to provid-ing the marble for the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials in Washington, D.C., the columns of theCuyahoga County Court House in Cleveland, Ohio, came from Marble. Other columns—for theNewhouse office building at Salt Lake City, the National Bank of New York, and eight columnsfor the Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake City—along with slabs for the exterior and interior of thechurch came from the quarry in 1909.

In 1910, twelve hundred lived in the village of “Marble City,” at the base of Whitehouse Moun-tain; 400 men were on the payroll at the mine. The marble working mill, with all the “newestappliances” and its own abundant water and electric power, produced 200,000 cubic feet ofmarble. Blocks were sawn into slabs and polished, using steel with concrete foundations.

The marble quarry was worked intermittently through the 20th century, as concrete replacedmuch of the traditional building uses. Presently an Italian company owns the mine, quarryingstone for sculpture, much sent to Europe where it is passed off as true Italian Carrera marble.Tours of the mine are NOT available. The Marble Institute hosts an annual marble sculptingsymposium in Marble; Marjie and Joe Payne participated in 2010.

References:Lakes, Arthur, “Limestone and Dolomites,” Mines and Minerals, November 1902, p. 183Lakes, Arthur, “Some Remarkably Fine Marble Quarries in Colo.,” The Mining World, March 19,1190, p. 609-611

Lakes, 1910, p. 610

Lakes, 1910, p. 610

Lakes, 1910, p. 611Lakes, 1902, p. 183

Left: Cuyahoga CountyCourt House, Ohio

Right:Tomb of the

Unknowns,ArlingtonNational

Cemetery


EE--MMAILAIL A ADDRESSDDRESS C CHANGEHANGE EDITOR

Our Web Master, Jennifer Biddle, has been having e-mail problems and apologizes to the editors who have submitted theirclub newsletters that are not on the web site. Please send the newsletters to [email protected] for posting. Requests

for items from the Program Library should be sent to [email protected]. She’s trying to keep these two positionsseparated and appreciates your cooperation.

If you have changed e-mail addresses, please let me know (forwards expire just like a change of address with the Post Office). Ifyou are the club editor or the person who distributes the RMFMS newsletter to your club members, please keep me updated. Mydistribution list is long and growing old—I get ‘undeliverable’ notices every month.

SSMILODONMILODON BY ZACHARY SEPULVEDA

The frigid bite of winter's lightShines on sabers sharp and bright.Speeding toward you through the snow,Your heart and mind fill with sudden woe.

You turn to run, but it's too late;Those flashing sabers seal your fate.Then a sudden blinding pain,So much blood it looks like rain.

The final image sears your brain;Those gleaming sabers, Smilodon's claim to fame.

Zach is 14 years old and a junior member of the Colorado Springs Min-eralogical Society and helps instruct the Pebble Pup program. His objec-tives for school are to get a PhD in paleontology at Montana State Uni-versity.

TTHEHE A AGEGE OFOF F FISHESISHES BY TEDDY REEVES

In the age of fishes,The period was blazing.The cooling plants were few,The creatures were amazing.

On the land aboveThe air was thinner than today,The mammals were none—Much to my dismay.

The biggest underwater fishCould not be beat,Larger than three elephants,Length: more than thirty feet!

The greatest jaws of old,A mouth that could crush steel.Delicacies of bone,Made for a great meal.

Dunkleosteus.If you had come upon one,You should’ve started a will,For your time left was none.

Teddy Reeves is 12 years old and is a junior member of the ColoradoSprings Mineralogical Society. He has been collecting fossils for half hislife. Fossil collecting is one of his favorite hobbies.

RROCKHOUNDOCKHOUND S STICKERSTICKERS!! FROM ROCK TALK, 8/12WHITE MOUNTAIN GEM & MINERAL CLUB, SHOW LOW, AZ

Direct from the Factory. They are approximately 4” across, made from 5-year yellow vinyl.

1 for $1, 6 for $5 (+ postage). Contact Eunice McQuiston, Distributer, 928-536-7209 [email protected], subject, “Stickers”. Please indicate which one you would like.

Show Your Rockhound Pride! Get a sticker or two for your vehicle!

PPARTICLESARTICLES OFOF B BEAUTYEAUTY -- I INCREDIBLENCREDIBLE S SANDAND A ARTRT BY DAVE HARRIS, THE ROCKHOUND GAZETTE,STILLWATER MINERAL & GEM SOCIETY (USED WITH PERMISSION)

One of the things that I do as editor is scouring the web for interesting content. Recently, I came across some fascinating pho-tos of sand particles. The particles are magnified 250 times and are of many different shapes and colors. They look like speci-

mens I would pick up on a rock field trip. It makes sense. What is sand, but tiny pieces of rock that have been broken off and wornaway.

These photos were created by Dr. Gary Greenberg, a biomedical research scientist with experience in photography and filmmak-ing. He graciously gave me permission to include a few of the pictures in our newsletter, but you need to go to his photo gallery forthe complete experience. If you love rocks, you will not want to miss it. The website is http://www.sandgrains.com/ and click on thegallery.

Using special microscopes, he has created a spectacular world of color and texture – as spectacular as anything we can see withthe naked eye. For a guy who loves collecting pretty rocks, my perception of sand has forever changed.

It is worth the time to view the other photos besides the sand grains in his photo gallery. They are just as fascinating.

Falling Sand—Maui sand grainsfrom Makena Point, Maui, Hawaii,fall into place. There is a redvolcanic outcropping at MakenaPoint, which erodes into reddishblack beach sand.

Hawaiian Sand Grains Arange-ment—Maui sand grains arrange-ment shows the diversity of sandgrains from a thimble-full of sandfrom a single beach near Lahaina,Hawaii.

Puffy Stars—Star shaped sand grains fromOkinawa, Japan. These tiny foram, a typeof protozoa, secrete beautiful star-shapedcalcium carbonate shells, or tests.

NNEWEW C CLUBLUB C CHANGESHANGES N NAMEAMEOur newest RMFMS member club, Cache Geological & Archeological Society in Utah, has simplified their name to Cache Rock &Gem Club. Please change in your RMFMS Directory. (My copy of our directory is my ‘encyclopedia’ of RMFMS! Well worth it at twicethe price; email [email protected] ,801-604-1263,to obtain a copy.)

JJUNIORUNIOR T TRADINGRADING C CARDSARDS!!!! FROM CAROLYN WHITE, EDITOR, WICHITA GEM & MINERAL SOCIETY

M ike Wingo has created a series of palentological trading cards which we will feature in the next few editions of Quarry Quips.The images on these trading cards are created using the most scientifically accurate and up to date dinosaur replicas, of-

fered by Museums like the Carnegie, and The Boston Museum of Natural History. Sometimes actual resin dinosaur models areused that are professionally built and painted by some of the best artists in the Paleo-modeling scene.

This month, we are featuring Theropods. To get your trading cards, print pages 12-13 (double sided) on card stock or on photopaper that has no printing on the back side. Trading cards can also be downloaded from the Junior page at http://wgmsks.org.

Print a set for yourself or for juniors and watch for next month’s feature. Editor’s Note: We’re very grateful to Carolyn for sharing thecards with us—what a creative and fun idea!!


EE--MMAILAIL A ADDRESSDDRESS C CHANGEHANGE EDITOR

Our Web Master, Jennifer Biddle, has been having e-mail problems and apologizes to the editors who have submitted theirclub newsletters that are not on the web site. Please send the newsletters to [email protected] for posting. Requests

for items from the Program Library should be sent to [email protected]. She’s trying to keep these two positionsseparated and appreciates your cooperation.

If you have changed e-mail addresses, please let me know (forwards expire just like a change of address with the Post Office). Ifyou are the club editor or the person who distributes the RMFMS newsletter to your club members, please keep me updated. Mydistribution list is long and growing old—I get ‘undeliverable’ notices every month.

SSMILODONMILODON BY ZACHARY SEPULVEDA

The frigid bite of winter's lightShines on sabers sharp and bright.Speeding toward you through the snow,Your heart and mind fill with sudden woe.

You turn to run, but it's too late;Those flashing sabers seal your fate.Then a sudden blinding pain,So much blood it looks like rain.

The final image sears your brain;Those gleaming sabers, Smilodon's claim to fame.

Zach is 14 years old and a junior member of the Colorado Springs Min-eralogical Society and helps instruct the Pebble Pup program. His objec-tives for school are to get a PhD in paleontology at Montana State Uni-versity.

TTHEHE A AGEGE OFOF F FISHESISHES BY TEDDY REEVES

In the age of fishes,The period was blazing.The cooling plants were few,The creatures were amazing.

On the land aboveThe air was thinner than today,The mammals were none—Much to my dismay.

The biggest underwater fishCould not be beat,Larger than three elephants,Length: more than thirty feet!

The greatest jaws of old,A mouth that could crush steel.Delicacies of bone,Made for a great meal.

Dunkleosteus.If you had come upon one,You should’ve started a will,For your time left was none.

Teddy Reeves is 12 years old and is a junior member of the ColoradoSprings Mineralogical Society. He has been collecting fossils for half hislife. Fossil collecting is one of his favorite hobbies.

RROCKHOUNDOCKHOUND S STICKERSTICKERS!! FROM ROCK TALK, 8/12WHITE MOUNTAIN GEM & MINERAL CLUB, SHOW LOW, AZ

Direct from the Factory. They are approximately 4” across, made from 5-year yellow vinyl.

1 for $1, 6 for $5 (+ postage). Contact Eunice McQuiston, Distributer, 928-536-7209 [email protected], subject, “Stickers”. Please indicate which one you would like.

Show Your Rockhound Pride! Get a sticker or two for your vehicle!

PPARTICLESARTICLES OFOF B BEAUTYEAUTY -- I INCREDIBLENCREDIBLE S SANDAND A ARTRT BY DAVE HARRIS, THE ROCKHOUND GAZETTE,STILLWATER MINERAL & GEM SOCIETY (USED WITH PERMISSION)

One of the things that I do as editor is scouring the web for interesting content. Recently, I came across some fascinating pho-tos of sand particles. The particles are magnified 250 times and are of many different shapes and colors. They look like speci-

mens I would pick up on a rock field trip. It makes sense. What is sand, but tiny pieces of rock that have been broken off and wornaway.

These photos were created by Dr. Gary Greenberg, a biomedical research scientist with experience in photography and filmmak-ing. He graciously gave me permission to include a few of the pictures in our newsletter, but you need to go to his photo gallery forthe complete experience. If you love rocks, you will not want to miss it. The website is http://www.sandgrains.com/ and click on thegallery.

Using special microscopes, he has created a spectacular world of color and texture – as spectacular as anything we can see withthe naked eye. For a guy who loves collecting pretty rocks, my perception of sand has forever changed.

It is worth the time to view the other photos besides the sand grains in his photo gallery. They are just as fascinating.

Falling Sand—Maui sand grainsfrom Makena Point, Maui, Hawaii,fall into place. There is a redvolcanic outcropping at MakenaPoint, which erodes into reddishblack beach sand.

Hawaiian Sand Grains Arange-ment—Maui sand grains arrange-ment shows the diversity of sandgrains from a thimble-full of sandfrom a single beach near Lahaina,Hawaii.

Puffy Stars—Star shaped sand grains fromOkinawa, Japan. These tiny foram, a typeof protozoa, secrete beautiful star-shapedcalcium carbonate shells, or tests.

NNEWEW C CLUBLUB C CHANGESHANGES N NAMEAMEOur newest RMFMS member club, Cache Geological & Archeological Society in Utah, has simplified their name to Cache Rock &Gem Club. Please change in your RMFMS Directory. (My copy of our directory is my ‘encyclopedia’ of RMFMS! Well worth it at twicethe price; email [email protected] ,801-604-1263,to obtain a copy.)

JJUNIORUNIOR T TRADINGRADING C CARDSARDS!!!! FROM CAROLYN WHITE, EDITOR, WICHITA GEM & MINERAL SOCIETY

M ike Wingo has created a series of palentological trading cards which we will feature in the next few editions of Quarry Quips.The images on these trading cards are created using the most scientifically accurate and up to date dinosaur replicas, of-

fered by Museums like the Carnegie, and The Boston Museum of Natural History. Sometimes actual resin dinosaur models areused that are professionally built and painted by some of the best artists in the Paleo-modeling scene.

This month, we are featuring Theropods. To get your trading cards, print pages 12-13 (double sided) on card stock or on photopaper that has no printing on the back side. Trading cards can also be downloaded from the Junior page at http://wgmsks.org.

Print a set for yourself or for juniors and watch for next month’s feature. Editor’s Note: We’re very grateful to Carolyn for sharing thecards with us—what a creative and fun idea!!


Fig. 7

Carnotaurus

The name means "meat-eating bull" areference to the dinosaur's unique set ofhorns that resemble those of a bull. Amassive meat-eating theropod that existedin Argentina during the late-Cretaceoustime period.

Fun Fact:

Studies of the dinosaur's femur design andlength suggest this dinosaur could run asfast as 31 miles per hour.

The name means "different-lizard" andrefers to a large bi-pedal carnivorous dino-saur known from North America, as well asPortugal and Tanzania. It was the mostabundant Jurassic predator known inNorth America.

Fun-Fact:

The jaws and skull of the Allosaurus werehinged much like a modern day snake sothey could separate and bow outward,allowing it to consume massive chunks offlesh with it's bite.

Allosaurus

Giganotosaurus

The name means " Giant southern lizard" andrefers to a massive species of bi-pedal, car-nivorous dinosaur found exclusively in Argen-tina. The animal existed during the late Creta-ceous time period.

Fun-Fact:

This predatory dinosaur possessed the largestskull of any known theropod with a length of6.40 feet.

The name means "cold-crested lizard" andrefers to a species of large therapod dinosaurs.This dinosaur lived in the early Jurassic in theAntarctic and was the first dinosaur from thecontinent to be named.

Fun-Fact:

Due to the crest on this animal's head, thatlooks like a large comb , it was originallynamed Elvisaurus in reference to the latesinger’s haircut.

Cryolophosaurus

Albertasaurus

The name means "Alberta lizard" and refers toa species of bi-pedal predatory dinosaurs whichexisted during the late-Cretaceous time period.The name is a reference to the province in Can-ada where the animal was found.

Fun-Facts:

One location contained the remains of no lessthan 26 of these animals providing scientistswith proof they were indeed pack-hunters.

SpinosaurusThe name means "Spine lizard" and is a spe-cies of large predatory dinosaurs from NorthernAfrica that lived during the mid-Cretaceous timeperiod. It is suspected this animal was a fisheater due to the shape of skull, jaws, and teeth.

Fun-Fact:

It could be said this dinosaur went extinct twice,because the original specimen that was discov-ered and mounted in a German museum wasdestroyed during W

orld War II.

Com

psognathusThe name means "elegant jaw" and describes agroup of small therapod, carnivorous dinosaurs.They lived in the late Jurassic period , in the areaknown as modern day Europe.

Fun-Fact :

Heavily featured in the "Jurassic Park" moviesand toys as a "Compie"

The name means "high spined lizard" and de-scribes a species of large carnivorous therapoddinosaurs. They lived in the Early Cretaceousperiod in the area now known as Texas, Okla-homa, and Arkansas.

Fun-Fact:This species of predatory dinosaur is often calleda sauropod hunter as the general body shape,and various special adaptations it possessedwere likely for the specific purpose of bringingdown massive sauropods as prey.

Acrocanthosaurus


Fig. 7

Carnotaurus

The name means "meat-eating bull" areference to the dinosaur's unique set ofhorns that resemble those of a bull. Amassive meat-eating theropod that existedin Argentina during the late-Cretaceoustime period.

Fun Fact:

Studies of the dinosaur's femur design andlength suggest this dinosaur could run asfast as 31 miles per hour.

The name means "different-lizard" andrefers to a large bi-pedal carnivorous dino-saur known from North America, as well asPortugal and Tanzania. It was the mostabundant Jurassic predator known inNorth America.

Fun-Fact:

The jaws and skull of the Allosaurus werehinged much like a modern day snake sothey could separate and bow outward,allowing it to consume massive chunks offlesh with it's bite.

Allosaurus

Giganotosaurus

The name means " Giant southern lizard" andrefers to a massive species of bi-pedal, car-nivorous dinosaur found exclusively in Argen-tina. The animal existed during the late Creta-ceous time period.

Fun-Fact:

This predatory dinosaur possessed the largestskull of any known theropod with a length of6.40 feet.

The name means "cold-crested lizard" andrefers to a species of large therapod dinosaurs.This dinosaur lived in the early Jurassic in theAntarctic and was the first dinosaur from thecontinent to be named.

Fun-Fact:

Due to the crest on this animal's head, thatlooks like a large comb , it was originallynamed Elvisaurus in reference to the latesinger’s haircut.

Cryolophosaurus

Albertasaurus

The name means "Alberta lizard" and refers toa species of bi-pedal predatory dinosaurs whichexisted during the late-Cretaceous time period.The name is a reference to the province in Can-ada where the animal was found.

Fun-Facts:

One location contained the remains of no lessthan 26 of these animals providing scientistswith proof they were indeed pack-hunters.

SpinosaurusThe name means "Spine lizard" and is a spe-cies of large predatory dinosaurs from NorthernAfrica that lived during the mid-Cretaceous timeperiod. It is suspected this animal was a fisheater due to the shape of skull, jaws, and teeth.

Fun-Fact:

It could be said this dinosaur went extinct twice,because the original specimen that was discov-ered and mounted in a German museum wasdestroyed during W

orld War II.

Com

psognathusThe name means "elegant jaw" and describes agroup of small therapod, carnivorous dinosaurs.They lived in the late Jurassic period , in the areaknown as modern day Europe.

Fun-Fact :

Heavily featured in the "Jurassic Park" moviesand toys as a "Compie"

The name means "high spined lizard" and de-scribes a species of large carnivorous therapoddinosaurs. They lived in the Early Cretaceousperiod in the area now known as Texas, Okla-homa, and Arkansas.

Fun-Fact:This species of predatory dinosaur is often calleda sauropod hunter as the general body shape,and various special adaptations it possessedwere likely for the specific purpose of bringingdown massive sauropods as prey.

Acrocanthosaurus


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Program ContestJennifer BiddleSee Program LibraryRibbonsVacantScholarshipSandy Cannedy15071 County Rd 1170Binger, Okla. [email protected] Blanton728 E. Sand Dunes Dr.Sandy, UT [email protected] L. CarlsonSee NM/TX State Director

ArizonaBill Jaeger

3441 E Astro StHereford, AZ [email protected] Kilb3411 Tomahawk DrLake Havasu City, AZ [email protected] Austin2918 Plymouth RdGrand Junction, CO [email protected] Nelson645 Popes Valley DrColo. Springs, CO [email protected] Nelson645 Popes Valley DrColo. Springs, CO [email protected] Meininger50029 Sunflower RoadMitchell, NE [email protected]

N Mexico/TexasYonis Lone EaglePO Box 1975Bloomfield, NM [email protected] DakotaRodney Hickle1631 28th Ave SW

Central, ND 58530701.794.3342Oklahoma/ArkansasBill Lyon112 N. Hillcrest StAda, OK [email protected] Perkins405 SE Ave G IIdabel, OK [email protected] DakotaJan Baumeister19702 E Hwy 18 Sp 56Welton, AZ [email protected] Alexander360 5th StOgden, UT [email protected] McGarveySee WY State Director

Lee Whitebay, Chair4669 N Prentice RdPonca City, OK [email protected]. Jay Bowman191 Bowman RdPonca City, OK [email protected] BurkhalterSee Fossil TechnicalRobert CarlsonSee NM/TX State DirectorJack Thompson1830 Mesita Ct.Colo. Springs, CO 80906719.636.2978

Updated 8/13/12

STANDING COMMITTEES

PAST PRESIDENTS

RMFMS Officers, Executive Committee, and Committee Chairpersons 2012/2013OFFICERS

STATE DIRECTORS

SPECIAL COMMITTEES

PUBLIC LAND ADVISORY

UNIFORM RULESCOMMITTEE

Committees areappointed by the Presi-

dent.

Ofcrs & State Directorsare elected by the Dele-

gates.

Executive Committeeconsists of Officers,

State Directors, and 2immediate Past Presi-

dents

To have your RMFMS member club sponsored events listedhere, email [email protected]. You may include otherinfo about your show if you wish but will only be printed as spacepermits.All RMFMS clubs are also encouraged to register their eventlistings on the RMFMS web site at: www.rmfms.org. Email yoursubmissions to the Webmaster at [email protected].

September 1-3, 2012 Silver City, NMGrant Co. Rolling Stones Gem & Mineral Society; con-tact Marcia Andre, 575-534-0006, [email protected] 8-9, 2012 Siloam Springs, ARNW Arkansas Gem & Mineral Society's Fall Rock Swap, atthe clubhouse on Hwy 43, north of downtown Siloam Springs.Sat., 9-5, Sun. 10-4; contact Dave Leininger, 479-787-5619September 14-16, 2012 Enid, OKEnid Gem & Mineral Society, Oakwood Mall, Enid; contactBilly Wood, 580-234-5344, [email protected] 24-30, 2012 Idabel, OKMcCurtain Gem & Mineral Club show, Museum of the RedRiver, Idabel; contact Cephis Hall, (580) 494-6612September 28-30, 2012 Tooele, UT400 N. 400 West St., Toole, UT; contact Craig McKee, (435)884-6059.September 28-29, 2012 Bismarck, NDCentral Dakota Gem & Mineral Society; contact Susan Ger-enz, 701-400-7440, [email protected] 30-October 1, 2012 Roswell, NMCharparral Rockhounds show, Convention & Civic Center,10th & Main, Roswell; contact Jeri House, (575) 622-3688,[email protected] 6-7, 2012 Greeley, COWeld County Rock & Mineral Society annual show, Sat 9a-5pSun 9a-3p, 607 N. 15th Ave, Greeley; contact MelanieDeHart, 970-352-8149, [email protected] 13-14, 2012 Grand Junction, COGrand Junction Gem & Mineral Club, Two Rivers Convention

Center; contact Wayne McMaken, 970-255-8374,[email protected] 13-14, 2012 Moab, UTMoab Points & Pebbles Club show, Old Spanish Trail Arena,3641 S. Hwy 191, Moab; contact Jerry Hansen, (435) 259-

3393, [email protected] 13-14, 2012 Sierra Vista, AZHuachuca Mineral & Gem Club, contact Maudie Bailey,520-378-6291, [email protected] 13-14, 2012 Topeka, KSTopeka Gem & Mineral Society, Kansas Expocenter AGHall, 17th & Topeka Blvd; contact Mike cote, 785-220-

3272, [email protected] 20, 2012 Riley, KSNorth Central Kansas Rock & Gem Club Swap Meet, 9:30a—4:30p; contact Martin Weber at 785-763-4316 [email protected] 10-11, 2012 Lake Havasu City, AZ(May change to February 2013) Lake Havasu City Gem &Mineral Soceity, Lake Havasu Aquatic CenterNovember 17-18, 2012 Littleton, COLittleton Gem & Mineral Club; contact Keith Sheel, 303-750-0763, [email protected] 17-18, 2012 Payson, AZPayson Rimstones Rock Club, Mazatzal Casino, Payson, AZ;contact Margaret Jones, 928-476-3513, [email protected] 24-25, 2012 Wickenburg, AZWickenburg Gem & Mineral Society, Wickenburg CommunityCity, contact Beth Myerson, 928-68-0380, [email protected] 2-4, 2012 El Paso, TXEl Paso Mineral & Gem Society, El Maida Shrine, 6331 Ala-bama St; contact Jarry Bruntz.December 7-9, 2012 Boulder, COFlatirons Mineral Club, Boulder County Fairgrounds, mainexhibits hall, Longmont, CO; contact Ray Gilbert, 303-774-8468, [email protected]

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NNEWSEWS Y YOUOU C CANAN U USESE … … FROMFROM AFMS C AFMS CONVENTIONONVENTION EDITOR

The AFMS 2013 President is Don Monroe from the Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies. We are honored to haveour own Richard Jeager, Tulsa Rock & Mineral Society, as President-elect for 2014.

All American Awards, Small Club, Bronze medal was awarded to Denver Gem & Mineral Guild.

Endowment Fund Raffle winners from RMFMS were Louellen Montgomery, Wayne Cox, and Jennifer Biddle—congratulations!The Hi-Tech Diamond equipment donations were won by EFMLS and SCFMS members. This was a record-breaking year for theEndowment Fund sales! Thank you for making this happen. (Editor’s Note: The interest from the Endowment Fund supports the produc-tion & distribution of AFMS Programs to regional federations for their member clubs. In addition, the funds are used for the AFMS website.)

The Web Masters Contest awarded 7th place to Pat Clark of the Littleton (CO.) Gem & Mineral Club. Check the club’s site at http://littletongemandmineral club.com.

The next AFMS Show will be hosted by the Southeast Federation in Jacksonville, FL, September 20-22, 2013.


PresidentDeLane Cox8152 Spanker Ridge Dr.Bentonville, AR [email protected]

Vice PresidentDebbie LeschnerHC60 Box 512Quemado, NM [email protected]

SecretaryPeggy Maggard8418 SE Hwy 77Leon, KS [email protected]

TreasurerGene MaggardSee Peggy Maggard

HistorianCinda Kunkler210 NE35th StTopeka, KS [email protected]

Bill SmithPO. Box 311Hardtner, KS [email protected] Nowak2805 Sage DrEnid, OK [email protected]

ArizonaVacantColoradoBeth Simmons1420 S. ReedLakewood, CO [email protected] Koerper1644 Valleyview CourtWichita, KS [email protected] Mexico/TexasRobert L. Carlson1585 Los PueblosLos Alamos, NM [email protected] DakotaRay Oliger516 N 20th StBismarck, ND [email protected]/ArkansasVirgil Richards26815 51st St

Broken Arrow, OK [email protected] Dakota/NebraskaSony HemscherPO Box 376Piedmont, SD [email protected] Burchard875 E. 4500 S.S. Ogden, UT [email protected] McGarveyPO Box 116Kinnear, WY [email protected] CainAddress on page 2

Convention AdvisoryRobert L CarlsonSee NM/TX State DirectorFinanceRobert Haines, Chair104 S. Brookside St.Wichita, KS 67218316.683.9021Wayne Cox8152 Spanker Ridge Dr.Bentonville, AR [email protected] TechMike Snively8495 W. Starr CircleLittleton, CO [email protected] TechJim Hurlbut2240 S AdamsDenver, CO [email protected] Beck, Chair3021 E Country Club RdSaline, KS [email protected] Jaeger3515 E 88th StTulsa, OK [email protected] NowakSee Past PresidentsProgram LibraryJennifer Biddle1620 Kingsway StSapulpa, OK [email protected] RelationsVacantPublication/EditorBetty CainAddress on page 2

SafetyVacantWebmasterJennifer BiddleSee Program [email protected] ContestBrian Paterson203 Saddle Mountain RdColorado Springs, CO [email protected]

BoundariesRobert L CarsonSee NM/TX State Director

CredentialsVacantDirectoryKay Waterman1334 N. McFarland PlaceClaremore, OK [email protected] Club Rockhound ofthe Year Award (ACROY)Bill CainAddress on page 2All American ClubDan AlfreyPO Box 4164Woodland Park, CO [email protected] TechnicalPete Modreski3555 Mill StWheat Ridge, CO [email protected] TechnicalRoger Burkhalter16560 E. Maguire RdNoble, OK [email protected] Burkhalter1267 Kingbird LaneChoctaw, OK [email protected] RelationsMike Nelson645 Popes Valley DrColo. Springs, CO [email protected] ProgramDiane C Weir2300 S Union AveRoswell, NM [email protected] PlanningJudy Beck, ChairSee NominationsRichard JaegerSee NominationsRobert L CarlsonSee Convention Advisory

Name BadgesRichard JaegerSee NominationsParliamentarianGene MaggardSee TreasurerPermanent AddressRobert CarlsonSee NM/TX State Director

Program ContestJennifer BiddleSee Program LibraryRibbonsVacantScholarshipSandy Cannedy15071 County Rd 1170Binger, Okla. [email protected] Blanton728 E. Sand Dunes Dr.Sandy, UT [email protected] L. CarlsonSee NM/TX State Director

ArizonaBill Jaeger

3441 E Astro StHereford, AZ [email protected] Kilb3411 Tomahawk DrLake Havasu City, AZ [email protected] Austin2918 Plymouth RdGrand Junction, CO [email protected] Nelson645 Popes Valley DrColo. Springs, CO [email protected] Nelson645 Popes Valley DrColo. Springs, CO [email protected] Meininger50029 Sunflower RoadMitchell, NE [email protected]

N Mexico/TexasYonis Lone EaglePO Box 1975Bloomfield, NM [email protected] DakotaRodney Hickle1631 28th Ave SW

Central, ND 58530701.794.3342Oklahoma/ArkansasBill Lyon112 N. Hillcrest StAda, OK [email protected] Perkins405 SE Ave G IIdabel, OK [email protected] DakotaJan Baumeister19702 E Hwy 18 Sp 56Welton, AZ [email protected] Alexander360 5th StOgden, UT [email protected] McGarveySee WY State Director

Lee Whitebay, Chair4669 N Prentice RdPonca City, OK [email protected]. Jay Bowman191 Bowman RdPonca City, OK [email protected] BurkhalterSee Fossil TechnicalRobert CarlsonSee NM/TX State DirectorJack Thompson1830 Mesita Ct.Colo. Springs, CO 80906719.636.2978

Updated 8/13/12

STANDING COMMITTEES

PAST PRESIDENTS

RMFMS Officers, Executive Committee, and Committee Chairpersons 2012/2013OFFICERS

STATE DIRECTORS

SPECIAL COMMITTEES

PUBLIC LAND ADVISORY

UNIFORM RULESCOMMITTEE

Committees areappointed by the Presi-

dent.

Ofcrs & State Directorsare elected by the Dele-

gates.

Executive Committeeconsists of Officers,

State Directors, and 2immediate Past Presi-

dents

To have your RMFMS member club sponsored events listedhere, email [email protected]. You may include otherinfo about your show if you wish but will only be printed as spacepermits.All RMFMS clubs are also encouraged to register their eventlistings on the RMFMS web site at: www.rmfms.org. Email yoursubmissions to the Webmaster at [email protected].

September 1-3, 2012 Silver City, NMGrant Co. Rolling Stones Gem & Mineral Society; con-tact Marcia Andre, 575-534-0006, [email protected] 8-9, 2012 Siloam Springs, ARNW Arkansas Gem & Mineral Society's Fall Rock Swap, atthe clubhouse on Hwy 43, north of downtown Siloam Springs.Sat., 9-5, Sun. 10-4; contact Dave Leininger, 479-787-5619September 14-16, 2012 Enid, OKEnid Gem & Mineral Society, Oakwood Mall, Enid; contactBilly Wood, 580-234-5344, [email protected] 24-30, 2012 Idabel, OKMcCurtain Gem & Mineral Club show, Museum of the RedRiver, Idabel; contact Cephis Hall, (580) 494-6612September 28-30, 2012 Tooele, UT400 N. 400 West St., Toole, UT; contact Craig McKee, (435)884-6059.September 28-29, 2012 Bismarck, NDCentral Dakota Gem & Mineral Society; contact Susan Ger-enz, 701-400-7440, [email protected] 30-October 1, 2012 Roswell, NMCharparral Rockhounds show, Convention & Civic Center,10th & Main, Roswell; contact Jeri House, (575) 622-3688,[email protected] 6-7, 2012 Greeley, COWeld County Rock & Mineral Society annual show, Sat 9a-5pSun 9a-3p, 607 N. 15th Ave, Greeley; contact MelanieDeHart, 970-352-8149, [email protected] 13-14, 2012 Grand Junction, COGrand Junction Gem & Mineral Club, Two Rivers Convention

Center; contact Wayne McMaken, 970-255-8374,[email protected] 13-14, 2012 Moab, UTMoab Points & Pebbles Club show, Old Spanish Trail Arena,3641 S. Hwy 191, Moab; contact Jerry Hansen, (435) 259-

3393, [email protected] 13-14, 2012 Sierra Vista, AZHuachuca Mineral & Gem Club, contact Maudie Bailey,520-378-6291, [email protected] 13-14, 2012 Topeka, KSTopeka Gem & Mineral Society, Kansas Expocenter AGHall, 17th & Topeka Blvd; contact Mike cote, 785-220-

3272, [email protected] 20, 2012 Riley, KSNorth Central Kansas Rock & Gem Club Swap Meet, 9:30a—4:30p; contact Martin Weber at 785-763-4316 [email protected] 10-11, 2012 Lake Havasu City, AZ(May change to February 2013) Lake Havasu City Gem &Mineral Soceity, Lake Havasu Aquatic CenterNovember 17-18, 2012 Littleton, COLittleton Gem & Mineral Club; contact Keith Sheel, 303-750-0763, [email protected] 17-18, 2012 Payson, AZPayson Rimstones Rock Club, Mazatzal Casino, Payson, AZ;contact Margaret Jones, 928-476-3513, [email protected] 24-25, 2012 Wickenburg, AZWickenburg Gem & Mineral Society, Wickenburg CommunityCity, contact Beth Myerson, 928-68-0380, [email protected] 2-4, 2012 El Paso, TXEl Paso Mineral & Gem Society, El Maida Shrine, 6331 Ala-bama St; contact Jarry Bruntz.December 7-9, 2012 Boulder, COFlatirons Mineral Club, Boulder County Fairgrounds, mainexhibits hall, Longmont, CO; contact Ray Gilbert, 303-774-8468, [email protected]

Shows

andMore

NNEWSEWS Y YOUOU C CANAN U USESE … … FROMFROM AFMS C AFMS CONVENTIONONVENTION EDITOR

The AFMS 2013 President is Don Monroe from the Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies. We are honored to haveour own Richard Jeager, Tulsa Rock & Mineral Society, as President-elect for 2014.

All American Awards, Small Club, Bronze medal was awarded to Denver Gem & Mineral Guild.

Endowment Fund Raffle winners from RMFMS were Louellen Montgomery, Wayne Cox, and Jennifer Biddle—congratulations!The Hi-Tech Diamond equipment donations were won by EFMLS and SCFMS members. This was a record-breaking year for theEndowment Fund sales! Thank you for making this happen. (Editor’s Note: The interest from the Endowment Fund supports the produc-tion & distribution of AFMS Programs to regional federations for their member clubs. In addition, the funds are used for the AFMS website.)

The Web Masters Contest awarded 7th place to Pat Clark of the Littleton (CO.) Gem & Mineral Club. Check the club’s site at http://littletongemandmineral club.com.

The next AFMS Show will be hosted by the Southeast Federation in Jacksonville, FL, September 20-22, 2013.


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