Tag: Michigan
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Throwback Thursday #299: Macfallite
This is Throwback Thursday #299. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! email:esconi.info@gmail.com. This post is a follow up to last week’s Throwback Thursday, where we mentioned the mineral species Macfallite.…
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Man Uses Strange Rock as Doorstop For Decades. It Turned Out to Be Worth a Fortune
ScienceAlert has a story of an unexpected valuable find. A farmer in Michigan didn’t realize that his 22 pound (10 kilogram) doorstop was a rare meteorite. Back in 2018, David Mazurek of Grand Rapids, Michigan asked Mona Sirbescu, a geologist at Central Michigan University (CMU), about the rock he’d found about 30 years ago… How…
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Video: ESCONI March 2021 General Meeting – “The Big Hill Lagerstätte”
The ESCONI March 2021 General Meeting is on March 12, 2021 at 8:00. The program will be presented via Zoom by Dr. James Lamsdell of West Virginia University. Dr. Lamsdell studies Paleozoic arthropods such as eurypterids and xiphosurans (horseshoe crabs and their relatives). He recently published on the fauna of the Ordovician “Big Hill” Lagerstatte…
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The Big Hill Lagerstätte
The University of Michigan has an interesting post about a new Lagerstatte, which was discovered in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan back in 2013. This fossil deposit dates to the Silurian Period about 430 million years ago. Over 40 species of animals have been discovered at the locality, including soft bodied animals like Jellyfish.…
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Fossil Friday #28: Petosky Stones
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #28. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! For Fossil Friday this week, we are…
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ESCONI/KGMS Field Trip to Cheney Limestone, Bellevue, MI – Saturday, September 12th, 2020
There will be a field trip to the Cheney Limestone quarry near Bellevue, MI on September 12, 2020, from 10 AM to 3 PM (Eastern). This is a joint trip between ESCONI and the Kalamazoo Geological and Mineral Society (KGMS). There are 20 spots for ESCONI members. The rock formation at this quarry is the…
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Meetings This Weekend
Friday, 11/13, General Meeting, 8:00 pm, College of Dupage, Rm K 131, Speaker: Dr. David Malone speaking on Exploring for Manto-Style Pb-Zn-Ag Deposits in the Forty-Mile Range, East Central Alaska Saturday, 11/14, Mineralogy Meeting, 7:30 pm, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. Micromineralogy of the Upper Pennisula, explanation of how to create a…
