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Display Bases for Your Specimens

Featured Articles, Minerals, PaleontologyBy Sigrid StewartJanuary 5, 2023

Display Bases for Your Specimensby Sigrid Stewart and Steve Blyskal We are discussing bases for individual specimens which will help to organize and display your collection. Not every rock, mineral,…

School Collections

Featured Articles, Minerals, PaleontologyBy Sigrid StewartAugust 17, 2022

School Collectionsby Steve Blyskal This article originally appeared in the February 2021 Backbender’s Gazette SCFMS Editor’s Contest 2022, First Place Original Adult Article Advanced When you enter the HGMS clubhouse…

Heliocoprion, Buzz Saw Shark, In Texas

Featured Articles, PaleontologyBy HGMSJune 13, 2022

Heliocoprion, Buzz Saw Shark, In Texasby Neal Immega This article originally appeared in the January 2021 Backbender’s Gazette Occasionally, I do really well by doing good. An email came from…

Cycad Anatomy and Fossil Occurrences in Texas

Featured Articles, PaleontologyBy Scott SingletonJune 12, 2022

Cycad Anadomy and Fossil Occurrences in Texas The following article was published by Scott Singleton in Fossil News, vol 12 #9, 2006 Images are the author’s from his personal collection…

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…

Jasper Miocene Wood

Featured Articles, PaleontologyBy HGMSSeptember 1, 2020

Determining the Source of Petrified Wood Jasper-Sam Rayburn Reservoir Collecting Areas (From the September 2020 Issue) Scott’s paper “Petrified Wood in the Miocene Fleming Formation, Jasper County, Texas ” was…

Occurrence of Fossil Woods in Texas

Featured Articles, PaleontologyBy HGMSJuly 5, 2020

Occurrence of Fossil Woods in Texas Article by Scott Singleton Scott’s paper “Occurrence of Fossil Woods in Texas, primarily the Cretaceous and Tertiary” was first published in 2017 in the…

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