[Rockhounds] Junior Geology

[pmodreski at aol.com]

Hi Kitty, Anita, & the Rockhounds,

Somewhere I have nice piece of that black&white speckled foam "rock", I think it's supposed to be diorite, which indeed looks very realistic and yes, is fun for tossing to someone.? I also have a piece (this one is right here in my office, got it in my hand) of a denser rubber-like artificial rock, this one is speckled olive-greenish with white, red, gray & bluish spots, to me it looks a whole lot like some kind of volcanic rock, which is why I bought it once at a novelty shop (it looks a great deal like some of the weathered pieces of lava from the Table Mountains, here by Golden, CO).

And speaking of the chalk--though I have a piece of two of the dark flint nodules that occur in the Dover Chalk, I've never owned or personally seen a piece of the chalk itself!? I wonder how one can get one?

And Kitty, I thought your email about the things you do with "junior geologists" was very good, I've saved it for future reference.

Pete Modreski


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From: Kitty & Bill Heacox <kahako at hawaiiantel.net>
To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Sent: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:03 pm
Subject: RE: [Rockhounds] Junior Geology


Anita, you're the first person I've heard of who has such a "rock," as we do! Mine is at least 40 years old. It doesn't squeak, and it appears to be some kind of foam, not hollow, not rubber; it also looks like granite. My mother used to keep it among her fluorescent minerals, because the white spots flouresce a nice bright white. My mom was such a gentle, sweet soul that she would never pull a practical joke, so in order to avoid having anyone have a moment of fear, she would toss it quite gently, only a very short distance, and so the person would be sure to catch it. Sometimes she would simply hand it to someone, using a little body language to make it seem like it was heavy, and the person's hands would fly up, sometimes hitting themselves in the face with the "rock."?
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I still use this "rock" in the same fashion, though sometimes I throw it hard at an adult who IS a practical joker! And it always reminds me that it was my home-maker mother who was the rockhound and fluorescent mineral expert, not my electrical engineer father.?
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Aloha, Kitty?
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At 07:04 AM 8/6/2007, Anita wrote:?
>I also have a very light weight rubber "squeak toy" that looks like?
>a piece of granite. It's mixed in with real rocks on the table. I find a?
>likely suspect and say "Hey: Catch!" I get a good laugh watching the kids?
>try to dodge the flying rock. When they realize they haven't been bruised or?
>bloodied, they laugh too.?
>?
>Anita?
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