The Georgia Mineral Society, Inc.
4138 Steve Reynolds Boulevard
Norcross, GA 30093-3059

GMS Field Trips in 2014

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2014 Field Trips = Fossil = Mineral = Rock = Tour

Jan	11	(GMS) Alabama Unresolved Markings, Trilobites, Brooksellas

Jan	18	(DMC) Athens Rock and Gem Club Savannah River Agate

Feb	07	(GMS) Georgia Various counter top materials plus tour of museum, monument, processing plant, and quarry

Feb	15	(DMC) Alabama Mineral & Lapidary Society Quartzite pebbles, oolitic pebbles, petrified wood, jasper, paint pots, pudding stone, marine fossils, agate

Mar	08	(GMS) Georgia Eocene Fossils

Mar	15	(GMS Juniors) Tennessee Shatter cones

Mar	29	(DMC) Memphis Archaeological and Geological Society Agates, petrified wood, fossils

Apr	13	(GMS) Georgia Lace agate, various slabs, rough, etc.

Apr	19	(DMC) Charlotte Gem & Mineral Club Amethyst, beryl, ironized quartz, smoky quartz

Apr	19	(GMS Adopt-a-Highway Trip) Georgia Ankerite, quartz with pyrite, zoisite

Apr	25,26,27	Rock Swap & Dig, Graves Mtn, GA Rutile, Lazulite, Pyrophyllite, Iridescent Hematite, Kyanite, etc.

May	17	(GMS/DMC) Georgia Mineral Society Vertebrate & invertebrate tracks, Pennsylvanian plant fossils, trilobite traces

Jun	21	(DMC) Forsyth Gem and Mineral Club Almandine Garnets

Jun	28	(GMS) Georgia Quartzite, slate, jasper, lilies, salamanders etc.

Jul	12	(GMS) Tennessee Ordovician fossils, geodes, suiseki

Jul	26	(DMC) Mississippi Gem and Mineral Society Agates, marine fossils, petrified wood

Aug	16	(DMC) Tennessee Valley Rock and Mineral Club Mississippian and Pennsylvanian fern and tree bark fossils

Aug	17	(GMS) Georgia Geology Hike, Glass Studio Tour and Demos

Sep	14	(GMS) Alabama Eocene Fossils including shark teeth

Sep	20	(DMC) Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club Sand dollars, skate teeth, shark teeth, vertebrate bone (such as Manatee), marine invertebrates (clam, oysters, snails), and chert

Oct	03,04,05	Rock Swap & Dig, Graves Mtn, GA Rutile, Lazulite, Pyrophyllite, Iridescent Hematite, Kyanite, etc.

Oct	25	(GMS Adopt-a-Highway Trip) Georgia Pyrite, zoisite, ankerite

Nov	01	(GMS) Georgia Kyanite, Mica, Graphite

Dec	06,07	(DMC) Knoxville Gem and Mineral Society Fossil Museum Behind the Scenes Tour Caverns Special Tour Double Terminated Quartz Graptolite Fossils