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Micromount Message Board
Read more: Micromount Message BoardMindat has an active and interesting Micromount message board.
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Oil Sand Pollution
Read more: Oil Sand PollutionVia University of Alberta: After an exhaustive study of air and water pollution along the Athabasca River from Fort McMurray to Lake Athabasca, researchers say pollution levels have increased as a direct result of nearby oilsands operations. University of Alberta biological sciences professor David Schindler was part of the team that conducted a long-term air and water study and found high levels of polycyclic aromatic compounds,…
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Flying Dinosaur Controversy
Read more: Flying Dinosaur ControversyFrom PhysOrg: New research appears to have ended a scientific debate that has vexed palaeontologists for almost 100 years.
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ESCONI Meetings This Friday and Saturday – Learn about Field Museum Meteorites & Split Geodes
Read more: ESCONI Meetings This Friday and Saturday – Learn about Field Museum Meteorites & Split GeodesFriday, January 8 – General Meeting. 8:00 p.m. Jim Holstein, of the Department of Geology at the Field Museum will be speaking on “The Field Museum’s Meteorite Collection.” Learn about meteorites, what they are, the different types, how they’re identified, and what we can learn from them. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. Saturday, January 9 – Mineralogy and Micromount Meeting. 7:30 p.m. Watch a video on Upper Michigan and bring geodes to split. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131.
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Indiana Mineral Group
Read more: Indiana Mineral GroupFriends of Mineralogy includes interesting links on their website.
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Do You Know Your Mineral Rights?
Read more: Do You Know Your Mineral Rights?Via Geology.com “MineralWeb.com has developed a rich resource library for citizen mineral owners who are looking for plain spoken intelligence about their mineral rights.” Quoted from a MineralWeb press release.
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Student Finds 4-7000 Yr Spear While Gardening On Campus
Read more: Student Finds 4-7000 Yr Spear While Gardening On CampusVia Seattle Times: University of Washington freshman Ellen Van Wyk was digging up rocks from a campus garden when she made her discovery a stone spear tip that archaeologists believe was fashioned some 4,000 to 7,000 years ago.
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Students Discredit Theory
Read more: Students Discredit TheoryAlberta, Dec. 16 (UPI) — Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students have confirmed an 85-year-old dinosaur find, discrediting a 1970s revision of the discovery.
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What Good Is Scottish Macaulayite?
Read more: What Good Is Scottish Macaulayite?If it is on Mars… better chance of life…
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Video of Active Underwater Volcano
Read more: Video of Active Underwater VolcanoFrom the NSF via Geology.com:
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Deeper Plume Than Thought at Yellowstone
Read more: Deeper Plume Than Thought at YellowstoneHmmm… ScienceDaily (Dec. 14, 2009) — The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth of at least 410 miles, contradicting claims that there is no deep plume, only shallow hot rock moving like slowly boiling soup.
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More Gift Ideas
Read more: More Gift IdeasThe Great Dinosaurs by Darren Naish. and for kids… Indiana Jones Lost City Archaeological Treasure Dig
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Join a Ning Site about Micromineral
Read more: Join a Ning Site about MicromineralYou can join this Ning site about Microminerals. They are organizing an international micromineral swap.
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How to Send Web Posts to Your Email
Read more: How to Send Web Posts to Your EmailYou can now sign up to have posts from this web site sent to your email with feedmyinbox.com
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Field Trip: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Sat. 1/23/2009
Read more: Field Trip: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Sat. 1/23/2009The Chicago Academy of Sciences (CAS) and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum would like to offer a behind the scenes tour of its museum collections for ESCONI members as a thank you to members (Dianna, Elaine, Jack, Joan, Joe) who contributed their time this past year with an inventory of our paleontology collection. The tour, given by Dawn Roberts, a geologist herself, and the Collections Manager, will focus on the Academy’s natural history collection. The Collections Facility houses 11,000 specimens in the geology collection and 14,000 specimens in the the paleontology collection. The facility contains 250,000 objects in the total…
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Earth Science Gift Books
Read more: Earth Science Gift BooksSome more ideas for gifts for the holiday season… Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth by DK Publishing Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature’s Mysteries from Perilous Places by Donna M. Jackson Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past by James M. Deem The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer by Barbara Kerley And of course, ESCONI books, make a great gift too!
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Musings on 60 Years Of ESCONI by Karen Nordquist
Read more: Musings on 60 Years Of ESCONI by Karen NordquistAs I try to put together a slide show for the 60 year anniversary party, I marvel at what this club has been through over the years. I myself have only been here for about the last ten years having found ESCONI late in my life unfortunately. I seem to have missed the really great years when there was a larger membership with a very active bunch of people running all the groups including not just one Juniors group but several. Those were the good old days. I see that membership was over 600 back in the sixties. What has…
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Linked In Page for Archaeologists
Read more: Linked In Page for ArchaeologistsThe Society for Industrial Archeology has a LinkedIn page, for those of you who use LinkedIn.
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Mineral – Micromount Meeting: Sat., 12/12, 7:30 p.m.
Read more: Mineral – Micromount Meeting: Sat., 12/12, 7:30 p.m.Mineral – Micromount Study Group Meeting, 7:30 pm, Saturday, 12/12, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. Bring three minerals and four labels for the identification contest – fabulous prizes for all! John’s Ice Cream will be served.
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Gift Idea for Earth Science Person
Read more: Gift Idea for Earth Science PersonA new book, Over the Coasts: An Aerial View of Geology, by Michael Collier, may be just that present for the geolgist in your life (or for yourself!)
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- Fossil of Pincer-Wielding Crawler Reveals Origins of Spiders, Scorpions and Others
The Trilobites column over at the New York Times has a interesting story about the origin of chelicerates – spiders, scorpions, mites, horseshoe crabs, and others. Chelicerates are a diverse group of arthropods that consists of more than 120,000 known species. Member of this group are classified by having a pair of appendages called chelicerae. These appendages are adapted for various purposes like snatching prey, injecting venom, and even spinning silk.
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| Friday, April 10th | General Meeting – 8:00 PM via Zoom. Jessica Hull will present “Life in the Devonian Period, The Age of Fishes.” |
| Saturday, April 11th | Junior Study Group Meeting – 2:00 PM, in person at the College of DuPage Technical Education Center (TEC) Building – Room 1038A (Map). Katherine Howard will present on Sand and Sediment Collecting. Specifics of this meeting are available from Scott Galloway, 630-670-2591, gallowayscottf@gmail.com. |
| Saturday, April 18th | Paleontology Study Group – 7:30 PM via Zoom and in person at the College of DuPage, TEC, Room 1038B (Map). Keith Robitschek will present “Digging the Marl of the Lance Formation.” |
| No meeting this month | Mineralogy Study Group |
| No meeting this month | Junior Study Group |