Tag: micromount
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Throwback Thursday #268: Looking Back At ESCONI For June 2025
This is Throwback Thursday #268. 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. 25 Years Ago – June 2000 50 Years Ago – June 1975 70 Years Ago – June…
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Tonight – Microphotograhy of Minerals from Clark Mines
Sat. 11/12 Mineralogy and Micromount Study Group. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Dan Behnke presents microphotography of specimens collected from Clark Mines. Promise – gorgeous photographs – will see minerals and rocks at their most beautiful. Will amaze.
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Saturday, 4/9, Mineralogy and Micromount Meeting 7:30 pm
Mineralogy and Micromount Study Group. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 1630 pm1. Talking about mineral structures and classifications.
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ESCONI Events This Weekend
Friday, Oct. 8, 8:00 p.m.– ESCONI General Meeting. Speaker: Paul Mayer, Invertebrate Collections Manager at the Field Museum. His talk will be entitled “The Milwaukee Formation: Rocks, Fossils, and Storms.” The lecture will focus on some deep tunnel cores drilled to a depth of over 800 feet in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In particular, he will talk…
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Events This Weekend
Friday, April 9 – ESCONI General Meeting. Dr. Bucky Gates , Assistant Professor at Lake Forest College, will be the speaker at 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. Dr. Gates will talk on Reconstructing Paleoecosystems Through Microvertebrate Taphonomy. Reconstructing ancient ecosystems is one of the primary aims of paleontology. However, the burial…
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Events this week: Mammoth Lecture, Mineralogy Meeting, Chicago Rocks Silent Auction
Waking the Baby Mammoth, lecture by Daniel Fischer, Paleontologist on Tuesday, March 9. Field Museum at 7:30 p.m., $24 – $30 ticket. Mineralogy & Micromount Study Group Meeting. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 13. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Topic of discussion: Radioactivity in Minerals. Geiger counter will be available. Bring in copper specimens…
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ESCONI Meetings This Friday and Saturday – Learn about Field Museum Meteorites & Split Geodes
Friday, 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…
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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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Mineralogy Meeting in December
MINERALOGY/MICROMOUNT STUDY GROUP will be held on Friday, December 13, at College of DuPage, Room K-161. “The World Famous Mineral Identification Contest” Bring three (3) specimens and four labels. Fabulous prizes for all. Refreshments will be served.
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Mineral / Micromount Study Group Information
The Mineral/Micromount Study Group meets the second Saturday of the Month at 7:30 p.m. in room 161 of the K Building at the College of Dupage Glen Ellyn Campus. Chairperson: Kathy Dedina
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Past Mineral & Micromount Study Group Meetings
January 8, 2000 Video on Upper Michigan February 12, 2000 Minerals of Langban, Sweden March 11, 2000 Unusual Crystal Forms – Twins and Pseudomorphs. Crystals frequently appear “different” from the classic textbook illustrations. Sometimes twins are formed reflecting a series of crystals faces. Sometimes the crystals are not what they seem. Instead they look like…
