Doing the post on the Gem and Mineral show reminded me of the things I got at my Geology Reunion silent auction. I've been meaning to write this up since April, my how time flys.
Just look at all the nifty stuff I got:
The first thing was this mounted Ordovician fossils of the Cincinnati arch area. I used to collect here a lot and have a lot of fossils from this area - now its so neat to have this on my wall as a quick and handy reference. I just love it and walk by it a couple of times everyday and look at it still.
This was labeled as a Ammonite from Madagascar. Other info it had with it - pink calcitic steindern! (now I wonder what a steindern is since its not in my geologic dictionary or in Wikipedia. Well looking on the internet there isn't a steindern but there is a steinkern which this fits the definition
"of STEINKERN:
a fossil consisting of a stony mass that entered a hollow natural
object (as a bivalve shell) in the form of mud or sediment, was
consolidated, and remained as a cast after dissolution of the mold." Merriam Webster dictionary. I do like learning new words and will have to remember this.
Wikipedia - Ammonite
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| Ammonite from Mdagascar |
.wikipedia - Carpopenaeus
An ancient prawn or shrimp.
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| Carpopenaeus - Cretaceous; Lebanon |
This one I thought I was bidding on a large piece of hornblende so I was surprised when I actually got it to see it was called edenite.
wiki/Edenite . The label said it was from Cardiff Twp. Ontario Canada which is in keeping with where edenite comes from.
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| Edenite from Cardiff twp, Ontario Canada. |
wiki/Beudantite
This was labeled Beudantite on quartz. Black Pine Mine, Granite Co Montana.
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| Beudantite from Black Pine Mine- Granite Co, Montana |
wiki/Celestite
They messed up the labeling on this one, but then when they were packing things away they found a slip that said celestite and since the first label was obviously wrong we figured that this had to be it - since none of the other stuff fit.
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| Celestite from Ohio |
At first I thought this mineral hexagonite was mislabeled because when I looked it up in my Dana manual of mineralogy it was not there. Nor was it in my Geologic dictionary or listed in Wikipedia. I thought they must be getting it mixed up with those Petoskey stones that's scientific name is
Hexagonaria percarinata. But then when I was like okay what is it?? and got out some of my rock identification books and started to search for what it could be- low and behold I did find it in the National Audubon Society "Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals - North America" (1979) pg 538. It's a form of Tremolite Wikipedia -.
Tremolite. Then when I was doing some more investigation of tremolite I found Balmat NY as a place for obtaining it. So I guess this was right after all. Tremolite is a calcium magnesium hydrous silicate.
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| Hexagonite; Balmat, New York |
Petosky Stones (here at Wikipedia
Petoskey_stone ) are a type of coral. Here's the other info on it -
Hexagonaria percarinata, usually found in Gravel Point Fm of the Traverse group Devonian - Michigan USA. They had the stones spelled different from Wikipedia don't know which to go with.
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| Petoskey Stones; - |
Years and years ago I had collected some stones like these and forgot to write the name down. I was kicking myself because I could never remember it. So when I saw these I just had to get them to find out there name.
Here's a better picture of one of them. I always loved the way they looked especially if they had been polished.
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| Petoskey Stone from Michigan |
wikipedia-Native_copper
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| Native Copper; Michigan |
This piece was rare for its size. And boy was this thing heavy. I was glad I had my car and not having to transport it on an airplane. Here's a different view of it.
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| Native Copper from Michigan |
I was very pleased with all of what I got. I tried to go for things I wouldn't run across in other places.
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