| Magazines Rocks & Mineral Rock & Gem Mineralogical Record Special Thanks to Ms. Kimberly McKnight's class in Milford, Delaware for providing this excellent link. There is a lot of interesting and engaging information on this page. High School Earth Science: Rocks and Rock Collections Interesting sites.... This first site is great fun as well as informative. Provides good information plus some humor. Each element has a 4-6 minute video attached with some interesting experiments shown. The manufacturing of Ancient Stone beads (from ancientbead.com) Igneous Rock Classification Diagrams By Andrew Alden, About.com Guide The official classification of igneous rocks fills an entire book. But the great majority of real-world rocks can be classified using these graphical aids. The triangular (or ternary) QAP diagrams display mixtures of three components whereas the TAS graph is a conventional two-dimensional graph. They're also very handy for just keeping all the rock names straight. These graphs use the official classification criteria from the International Union of Geological Societies or IUGS. Click on any of them to see a larger version. The Mohs Scale How to Look at a Rock For the Junior Rockhounds... Kids Love Rocks Great tounge-in-cheek article about chalk. Chalk is weird! Tiger-eye...Great site with pictures of many different varieties of this beautiful material Tiger Eye information Looking for amazing mineral specimens? This is the site to visit!! http://www.spiriferminerals.com/ Excellent Agate Book! The new book is over 250 pages with close to 300 high quality pictures. The sample PDF (click here) has the table of contents and a sampling of the amazing photographs! Victoria Mine Pyrites.. This link is to a PDF file about the amazing pyrites from this mine. The article is in Spanish, but the pictures will make you forget about that!! Click here Pyrites |
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| To associate persons of the Palm Beach area of Florida who are interested in earth sciences, to work together as an organization in the gathering, cutting,displaying, and studying of rocks, shells, artifacts, and any kind of scientific objects of interest to the individual and the organization to promote community interest in these objects. The society is a member of the Eastern Federation of Mineralogical & Lapidary Societies Inc. and the Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Inc., affiliated with the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Our members are able to participate in activities sponsored by these organizations. |
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