Houston
Gem & Mineral Society Field Trips
Updated
7/12/2008
The field trip leader is Neal Immega. E-mail him at the field_trips address on the Contact Us page to be put on the mailing list for field trips.
Field
Trips—We go on as many as we can, more in cooler months. We have
cooperative field trips with the Clear Lake Gem and Mineral Society and
anyone else who wants to run one. Our primary focus is paleo, but we do
not let that stop us when we have a good site. Some of our sites are as
close as the
You are welcome to come on our trips, and we want you to join our club.
- All people on a trip are required to be a member of HGMS and to sign an Assumption of Risk Form.
- Everyone needs to sign up in advance and get the details about where we will meet. Do not plan on just showing up.
- The club does not charge for field trips, but sometimes there are fees to get into a site.
Panoramas and Text of favorite field trip locations. (See the Lawton, OK trip and the Gore, OK trip below). E-mail Neal Immega and tell him if you like it. You must have Quicktime to view the panoramas.
| 2008 Club Field Trips | |||||
| March 20-23 |
Brown
County
We are invited to stay for free at Lexy's house and to eat from the common pot - breakfast and dinner. Bring something to put in it. The house is within walking distance from lots of food outlets. You may camp in her backyard, and there is room for RVs (without hookups). Lexy has a limited number of beds, so you should bring something to sleep on. We have done this before and had a great time. Please let us know if you are coming. Remember - bring the signed Assumption of Risk Form mentioned above. Really! |
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| May 24, 25, 26, Memorial
Day |
Lake Texoma We will harvest ammonites and related Cretaceous fossils. We meet at the Boat Ramp parking lot on the Texas side at 9:00 a.m. in the morning. We are west of the dam and east of Eisenhower State Park. Dennison Dam recreational area. Please read the article from the last trip. You NEED to know how to get these things back to the car. http://www.hgms.org/Articles/Neal-Ammonites.html Someone please bring a canoe!! Really. Charge money if you want, but bring one. You will have takers. Details: We will meet Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (May 24, 25, 26) at the boat dock at 9 a.m. Satuday we collect ammonites on the lake, and we will be there all day. Sunscreen! Hats. Water. Food. Bug stuff. See http://www.swt-wc.usace.army.mil/DENI.lakepage.html for the lake level. It will be okay if it stays at the pool level. If the level rises to 620, we call off the trip. I will send out e-mail. Last time a lake ranger came over to talk to my wife Inda in the parking lot to ask what we were doing. After she told him, he said that there was nothing in the game laws about bag limits for 100 million year old squid! Nice. From a boating safety point, they were concerned about our overloading the canoe with ammonites. If you get there late, go down to the lake level and walk west on the shore. The farthest west we can go is where an iron stair walkway comes down to lake level. Sunday and Monday I will take people off to collect in other areas if you like. Come for part or all of the trip. READ the article!!! Where to stay: Denison and Eisenhower state park. Rick Rexroad is going to get screen cabins. Contact him by e-mail in advance at rrexroad@brwncald.com to share the cabins. Let's try to get together and share rides on this trip. Contact me if you need or will share a ride. It is 300 miles! One Way!! Neal |
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2007 Club Field Trips |
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| February |
Field Trip
to Jacksboro spillway and the Mineral Wells Dump
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| February 24-25 |
Field trip to dinosaur trackway We will make casts of the footprints for the Houston Museum of Natural Science. |
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| March 15-18 | Brownwood It was a great trip. Lots of echinoids were recovered from the dam. More echinoids (Cretaceous) were found at a new location. NTI |
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| April
14 |
Whiskey Bridge | ||||
| June 2 |
Timber company land near Sam Rayburn
Reservoir north of Jasper (in East Texas). Field Trip Leader: Scott Singleton
Field
Trip Objective: Petrified wood from the Catahoula Formation,
Oligocene age. The Catahoula is known for its great abundance of
silicified wood. The silica and mineral impurities (for color) come
from volcanic ash originating from west Texas during that time. Palm is
common in the Catahoula, but it gets picked up as soon as it weathers
out of the formation. Large pieces of wood are common. The three most
common types I have found so far are live oak, hard elm, and conifer. |
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| June 30 |
There
is
another trip to Sam Rayburn
Reservoir planned for June 30, providing that the weather
cooperates
and stops raining. Number of participants will be 25. I already have six on the list. Priority will be given to those of you who were unable to make the last trip. Only high clearence vehicles can be driven to the site, and the number of vehicles going to the site will be limited as well because of little parking space. We will meet at a small cafe called "The Stump" near Sam Rayburn Dam on Hwy 255. We will travel to the site in as few vehicles as possible. Be prepared to leave your vehicle and go with someone else. No fancy tools needed for collecting. The wood is plentiful and easy to get. The hard part is carrying it back to your vehicle because you will want to lug biiiggg!! logs. More details to follow in a few days. |
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2006 Club Field Trips |
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January 28-29 |
North Sulfur River for Cretaceous Vertebrates North Sulfur River Field Trip (It didn't rain enough!) |
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March 22 |
Brazos River Walk-in |
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| April
22 |
HGMS Show Committee
hosted a spring field trip for the entire club to the Alcoa
Three Oaks lignite mine. |
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| May 4 |
Brownwood Spillway Brownwood
Fossiling |
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| October 15 | Houston
downtown walking tour of building stones Map of route |
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2005 Club Field Trips |
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March |
Mineral Wells/Jacksboro—Sponge Fest! Mineral Wells/Jacksboro |
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April 27–29 |
Lake Bridgeport, TX A.J. Petty Thesis covers this area. Right-click to save PDF to your disk. 300K file |
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May 27–30 |
Lake Texoma, TX Search for ammonites Lake Texoma, TX |
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July 23 |
Dolese Quarry in Lawton,
OK Permian reptiles |
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Date? |
Chisum Quarry, Gore,
OK Blastoids and Corals |
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August 6 |
Glen Rose, TX Dinosaur tracks on the Paluxy River Glen Rose, TX |
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October 21 |
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| October 30 |
Brazos River Pleistocene and Ice Age fossils Brazos
River |
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2004 Club Field Trips |
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| April 3 |
Field trip to Sam
Rayburn Reservoir |
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| November 15 |
Show Committee trip to Bryan/College
Station |
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2003 Club Field Trips |
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| March 22 |
Show Committtee trip to Karnes
County, TX |
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| April |
Field trip to Falls
City area and the Tessman Ranch |
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| May 3 |
Field trip to Giddings |
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2002 Club Field Trips |
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January 25 |
Lake Brownwood, TX Pennsylvanian fossils Lake Brownwood |
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February 3 |
College Station, TX Petrified wood College Station, TX |
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| 2001 Club Field Trips | |||||
| June 1 |
Lignite Mine field trip to Jewett,
TX |
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| 1999 Club Field Trips | |||||
| October |
Louisiana
Rockhound Roundup |
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Downloads—PDF files (Acrobat Reader is
required for these files.) ------Middle Eocene, Clairborne Group, Stone City Member at Whiskey Bridge at the Brazos River------
Whiskey Bridge,
Eocene marine fossils -----------------------------------Pennsylvanian, Finis Shale, Jacksboro spillway -------------------------------------- Article by Lobza, Schieber, and Nestell on the geology of the spillway. - 6 meg PDF -------------Pennsylvanian, Winchell fm, Lake Brownwood spillway --13 meg PDF--------- Ph. D Thesis by Christie Lynn Schneider ---------------------------------Permian, Arroyo Fm, Seymour, Tx, HMNS dig site---------------------------- Xenacanth shark coprolite.--1.5 meg PDF Xenacanth shark cartilage. -- 1.5 meg PDF -------------------------------------------Wilson Clay Pit, Brown County------------------------------------------------ Shark Cartilage -- 1.5 meg PDF --------------------------------------College Station Petrified Wood------------------------------------- Article on Snakewood - 4 meg PDF |
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