By: Donald Baumgartner My summer vacation of 2010 was a fossil collection trip to Utah and Wyoming in pursuit of trilobites and fish fossils, respectively. With this article I herein elaborate on the second half of my expedition to Southwestern Wyoming near the town...
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The Nature of Earth: Origin of the Universe
By: Antonio Peso From: The Pick and Dop Stick, 6/2013 10th Place — 2014 AFMS Original Adult Advanced Articles I've often thought that the place to start to understand geology is in the beginning. And in the beginning the astronomers tell us, there was no need for...
The Colors of Fluorescence, Part I
By: Robert Beadle From: The Pick and Dop Stick, 4/2013 4th Place — 2014 AFMS Original Adult Advanced Articles Fluorite crystals are a highly collectable mineral. I should know as I have been collecting fluorite since the start of my mineral collection. In addition to...
How Old is the Earth? (Part II of II)
By: Harold H. Lundberg From: The Pick and Dop Stick, 4/2012 9th Place — 2013 MWF Original AduIt Articles Moving on to the Christian era. Almost from the beginning, clergy were trying to establish a firm date for the Creation. It was needed so they could calculate "the...
Every Rock Has a Story
By: Robert Beadle From: The Pick and Dop Stick, 3/2012 6th Place — 2013 MWF Original AduIt Articles Ages and ages ago what is now known as Illinois was covered with warm shallow seas. North America was located near the equator. For about 41 million years, layers of...
Hunting Fossil “Bugs” in Utah
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,...
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...
