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Okay Doug… Let's hope it all stays 'endless', right? Bill
You flatter me, Russ. Now I have to go into my notes and photographs taken around 1939, with a year or so on either side. I know I do have a photo of old Herman's place, rather good considering I was just discovering photography in those days. And one in…
I have 2 uv lamps, one big SW (as you brought here), and the portable, which was not fixed, but UV products sent me a new one, which is working fine. It has the LW and SW, but so far I haven't had much chance to get out of here…
#Opal mine, Mojave
Message #148773
Been there, Doug. The opals occur as amygdules in a coarse lava, filling only an occasional cavity. The mines Russ is referring to were worked in the '30's (when I went there!!!) by a grizzled prospector named Herman, who had a "rock shop" in Last Chance Canyon. I just checked…
Thanks Doug.. This is sure a help. The chap I mentioned left today to return to Greenland, all turned on to hunt up some minerals. He is not in the least knowledgable, but a smart guy (edits the only newspaper in Greenland), and much interested in learning about the Greenland…
Greenland minerals
Message #143806
I remember somewhile back some postings about fluorescent minerals in Greenland. Anyone who can remind me about this will be my savior. I may have a contact in Greenland who just might be interested in checking this out, and who knows, maybe supply us all with some goodies. Bill
Another example: During the Jurassic the West Coast (North America) was subjected to much folding and twisting, jumbling formations of varying earlier ages, including some fossil bearing strata. This is the Franciscan melange. Within this much disturbed terrain occasional, evidently Cambrian, fossils turn up, mixed in with much later sediments.…
Okay Kamron, now that we know that your pronouncements are your reality, I think we can abandon any further discussion. B.
Kamron.. >> It is obviously pulled apart.
Kamron.. >> Remove the rubble filling the bottom of the canyon and you can mentally push the canyon back together.
Books in Print shows: Shimmer, Harvey M. and Schrock, Robert R. "Index Fossils of North America" (Illus) 1944 $85.00 (ISBN 0-262-19001-X) M.I.T. Press My issue of BiP is 1990, so the price may have risen, but in whatever case, you could probably buy a copy direct from M.I.T. Press, 55…
Kamron: >> These facts prove the material arrived from outer space (ie from the Sun). Each layer represents a specific cycle change in the suns activity.
Thanks Michael.. This wood is not water soluble, so I think it will accept the PVA mix. It will be interesting (to me, anyway) to see how this works out. I would appreciate the listing of consolidants if you'd upload to the Lib. Will let you know results… Bill
Michael.. You mention consolidant.. I have some Cretaceous fossil wood that is very fragile, crumbly, and I think the solution for its preservation would be a penetrating consolidant. Perhaps you could make a recommendation?? Thanks.. Bill
Thai Tektites,
Message #136385
Hello Adrian… Sure, let's go for a 2.5" one. I will send you my address e-mail and also send a list of tradables. Bill
Hello Adrian.. I've been following your and Doug's chat about the tektites and have become interested enough to want one. $20 for a 3" RBC sounds just fine. Where do I send the $? I do have a small amount of tradable fossils/minerals. I could e-mail you a list if…
Hello Bill.. The mining of Pisgah has been going on for years. I first saw this cinder cone back in the late 30's (yes!), and photographed it. Even then it was not in pristine condition, but there was far more of it then there is now. I share your sorrow…
Correction.. Thanks Lanny. The book I cited essentially was a review of how Bretz' theory was not accepted for some time, due to conservatism of the geology community and its obsession with slow processes as the ONLY way geological events were supposed to occur. The importance of the book is…
Two suggestions.. (I cannot testify to availability in bookstores or libraries) McKee, Bates: Cascadia McGrawHill, 1972 ISBN 07-045133-8 This is a beautifully illustrated book, nice maps, and while no longer completely up-to-date would be a good introduction. Allen, John Eliot; and Burns & Sargeant: Cataclysms on the Columbia. Timber Press…
Fossil collecting
Message #133427
Hello Darell.. "Shark Tooth Hill" awakened memories. When I was a kid, 13 or 14, I got involved with Leslie Wilson, who was teaching at Bakersfield (then Jr. College), and doing some research on fossil cetaceans he'd collected around Shark Tooth Hill.. this happened while Wilson was working on a…
Doug.. It's the friction … smaller interface between the plate and the underlying structures… which suggests to me that motion would be somewhat accelerated when a plate was in the process of terminal subduction, whatever the force (push or pull) that was causing it. Bill
Doug.. Paul must have seen the news report on some Univ. of Oregon geologists who have been measuring NW coast uplift, and are predicting a major (9 richter) quake in the not distant future. I am relying on memory, but it seems to me the Juan de Fuca plate is…
Doug.. the handy ones are probably the easiest to come by.. and the most useful. There are probably very few stones that would float on water, or anything with less than 1.00 SG. So how are those lightweights used? (Besides sniffing). I am sticking with apatite, and the marks are…
Larissa.. Thanks for the suggestion. I went back to the specimen and began to wonder about my analysis of the cleavages, especially after checking with Northrup, Minerals of New Mexico, and recalling that apatite(s) haven't much going for them when it comes to cleavage. Northrup describes dark blue-green apatite from…
>>> being there.
Hey Doug.. I'm glad you had the time!!! Your thoroughness much appreciated! As you probably remember, I had trouble with my portable UV and sent it back to San Gabriel, so until I get a replacement gismo I am stuck without LW. The ?albite? specimen is in a bunch of…
Larissa, Doug, and yo'all..: That eucryptite inquiry led me to my Harding mine stuff, and I got a couple of interesting hits. One chunk that I was calling spodumene gave a fairly strong rose pink fluorescence! Could it be eucryptite? Not according to the literature which suggests smaller stuff. Heck…
Larissa.. In case Doug is so busy reading all the stuff he's snatched from the Internet, and can't get back to you immediately, I looked up eucryptite in Ency. of Minerals, and bingo..it's there and 'tis said to fluoresce pink. Localities listed for it: "Occurs sparingly, intergrown with albite, at…
Hello Doug.. I think you could be trusted to post those messages that would be of genuine interest. I assume that like most stuff floating along the superhighway it is not of interest. Or do you think we'd be fascinated with it all? Bill
No. Jolt Cola. No. I live too far away from that stuff. Probably because I file some raunchy stuff there, and this is, after all, America. Bill
Thanks Michael.. Have already been through that, without too much success in pinning down anything. I sometimes wonder if PC Mag labs really get the goods on the machinery. Most of the hardware problems I seem to have is that the stuff, while it might perform well for awhile, fails…
I was hoping to get something that would help you guys see those limpets in action. . But I've decided my scanner.. an old sheet fed Dest.. is not worth the tin its made of. So I was on the phone to my connection to see if I could manage…
Doug.. The logistics of copulation of limpets is most unlikely to include releasing themselves from their rock. Reading up on this disclosed that limpets not only cling to the rock, but when hungry slip out of their berth and mosey about the rock, but then go home when the mosey…
Wait until you see the picture. It *is* intriguing!
Doug.. Returned the lamp and talked with the fellow at Fluorescent Minerals. He said they've had nothing but trouble with that model and assured me it would be replaced. Evidently there is now another manufacturer's product that does the same stuff and costs the same, and that is what they…
A better interpretation, I think, that molloscan conjugation. B.
Sorry Michael.. Got a little carried away there. 35 by 25 is more better. My guess would be side by side, too. In fact, I can't imagine a limpet loosening itself from it rock long enough, if at all, to manage a belly to belly. But then, how did these…
UV Lamp failed on trip
Message #119195
Doug.. My experience (see other messages) with the battery does suggest it is not so good. I figured the cigarette lighter port would be a good way to check. Found that the battery had lost energy down to zero over a couple of days, without use. So I plugged in…
UV portable disaster
Message #119175
Doug.. Tried to charge the unit with the cigarette lighter port to see if something with the rectifier circuit might be at fault. It charged all right, for awhile, but the charge light remained dark. Then I noticed that it was getting awfully hot, and I detected an odor like…
#Keyhole Limpet Fossil
Message #119174
A friend recently presented me with a fossil of two keyhole limpets, joined in a foot-to-foot embrace. I have searched much and found nothing resembling a Kama Sutra for limpets. I have never so much as caught a live limpet pair in passionate embrace, so I am much puzzled by…
Hello Russ.. I bought my UV portable from UV Products in San Gabriel. See my message to Doug about it. It did take forever to get shipment on it when I first bought it. I have the distinct impression they are made one at a time by elves. Bill
#UV Lamp failed on trip
Message #118582
Doug. I hesitate to take the gismo apart as it is still on warranty and I should probably send it back to UV Products. I did check voltage on the 12 VDC input after turning it on to the AC position and got approx 16 volts. Does that tell us…
#UV Lamp failed on trip
Message #118329
Hi Doug.. Well, I finally got out to try to get some of that fluorescent stuff over in San Benito Co. A couple of guys with me, and we got totally frustrated. The UV lamp (lw,sw portable) UV-54, quit on us.. totally. Brand new, worked fine at home, and continues…
CD-Rom Mineralogy
Message #118208
Hi Doug.. When do we (you..) start creating this thing? B.