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Summer is Coming (So Work on your Collection)

Featured Articles, Field Trips, Lapidary & Silversmithing, MineralsBy Sigrid StewartAugust 19, 2022

Summer is Coming (So Work on your Collection)by Sigrid Stewart Originally Published in the June 2022 Backbender’s Gazette Yes, summer is coming and what’s a Texas rockhound to do? In…

Field Trip to the Miocene Fleming Fm. of Jasper Co., East Texas

Featured Articles, Field Trips, PaleontologyBy Scott SingletonMay 15, 2022

Field Trip to the Miocene Fleming Fm. of Jasper Co., East Texas On May 14, 2016, the HGMS held a field trip to familiar hunting grounds in East Texas, just…

Ammonites—Shared Efforts: Memorial Day Field Trip to Lake Texoma

Featured Articles, Field Trips, PaleontologyBy ELSA KAPITAN-WHITEMay 14, 2022

Ammonites—Shared Efforts: Memorial Day Field Trip to Lake Texoma by Neal “field trip” Immega, HGMS member (Published in the September 2005 The Backbender’s Gazette) Squid? It may seem very strange…

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