CompuServe Thread

Hello! We in this forum section include a wide variety of earth science interests, from professional to novice hobbyists. Here you will find collectors of minerals, fossils, rocks, and so on, with lapidaries, geologists, teachers, and more. We have been trading information and specimens. We are looking for new participants! If you do not find any topics on this message board that sound like your interests, read them all anyway. Due to wandering conversations, at times you would have found fluorescent minerals discussed in the 'turtle fossils' topic and other surprises. Feel free to jump into any discussion with questions or comments – if we did not want other people joining in, we would use private E-mail. Whether or not you find people sharing your interests, post a message introducing yourself. Tell us what subjects you are interested in, what you might like to learn/buy/sell/trade, and where you are. You may attract the attention of someone else who shares your interests; that is how a fair amount of activity gets started here. Don't make it a reply to this message (let's try to keep one topic name honest!); start a new topic with a title carefully chosen to hint at your field of interest (to get the attention of those you wish to hear from). At present, messages are lasting roughly 8-9 days on this message board; message lifetimes may vary by several days at times. In this section's library 12 you will find mineral databases, a rockhound magazine list (GEOMAG.TXT), references to other geo-science resources (INTERN.TXT, SCIGEO.TXT, GEOINF.*), and lots of other goodies. –Doug