GMS Field Trips in 2014
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2014 Field Trips = Fossil = Mineral = Rock = Tour |
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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 |
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