By: Donald Baumgartner From: LOESS Bulletin, 12/2010 1st Place — 2014 AFMS 1st Place — 2011 MWF Advanced Adult Articles Our host Jake Skabelund and staff of the American Trilobite Suppliers, planned for everything and spared no expense to make this experience safe,...
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Notes from the Field (Museum)
By: Sue Robert From: The Pick and Dop Stick, 10/2010 1st Place — 2011 MWF Features 8th Place — 2011 AFMS Features Part of my reason for visiting the Field Museum on June 22nd was to check out the exhibit on "Mammoths and Mastodons" so I could write a review of it for...
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
A Book Review, by Betty Novak From: The Pick and Dop Stick, 10/2010 4th Place — 2011 MWF Features Remarkable Creatures is the fictionalized story of the unlikely friendship of two English women in the early 1800s. Mary Anning was the daughter of a cabinet maker who...
Bess’s Wish: A Rockhound’s Last Request
By:Betty Novak From: The Pick and Dop Stick, 9/2010 2nd Place — 2011 MWF Adult Poetry 2nd Place — 2011 AFMS Adult Poetry As the jet of night fades to amethyst, an opalescent spray Of agate bands streaking the eastern horizon Gives way to azure skies studded with...
Fluorite and Minerals Associated with the IL-KY Fluorspar District Fluorite Series — Part II
By: Robert Beadle From: The Pick and Dop Stick, 2/2010 2nd Place — 2011 MWF Original Adult Articles 6th Place — 2011 AFMS Original Adult Articles In the beginning of this series of articles featuring fluorite, I covered some of the historical background and geology of...
The Cambrian Radiation Revisited
By: Kenjiro Hakomori From: The Pick and Dop Stick, 1/2010 4th Place — 2011 MWF Original AduIt Articles Fortey's book is a very good survey of life on the planet and how it has evolved over the course of the past few billion years with an emphasis on the last 540...
