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[Lanny]

Just curious Don. You mean to say that the outcrop is gone? There are 
no kyanites and no garnets remaining? I'm amazed, I thought it was just 
that the loose surface material was gone. Maybe I have been wrong and 
telling people about localities is a geologic sin! I find it difficult 
to believe that the outcrop with the kyanite is gone. The loose 
material picked up of the surface of the outcrop and where they 
occurred in the bare areas between clumps of grass scattered over the 
ridge yes, but I can't imagine the outcrop being gone. As to the 
garnets, they are scattered over the ridge for several hundred yards, 
which area has the zoned crystals and relation with kyanite, I don't 
know, haven't looked at it. I think your interested geologists need to 
get off their butts, out of the lab, and go there and look. My 
curiosity is up, we need to meet up there next summer!

Regards,

Lanny

On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:39 AM, DonH wrote:

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>
>
> Some may recall my stories from the summer, when I was out in the 
> middle of nowhere and encountered an elderly couple, with one of Lanny 
> Ream's books in hand, looking for large blue kyanites.  Well, we found 
> the one outcrop where these were located, but all that were left were 
> tiny kyanites.  A discussion followed here where Lanny mentioned that 
> the site (which is pretty obscure) had been collected out after the 
> book was published.  So it goes.  The sad part of the story is that I 
> have since shown my collected materials to some of the professors who 
> are working on the dating and structure of the area.  Apparently I've 
> found some things that they haven't seen before, like garnets with 
> three growth layers.  This is not related to my thesis but I feel 
> obligated to pass on the info to others who are working on the area.  
> It seems they appreciate and respect my observations and in fact that 
> ridge may be the key to solving some regional puzzles, since it is 
> poorly known and poorly studied and few people are aware of blue 
> kyanite associated with garnet that far west of where it is already 
> known to be.  However, it would have been nice to have that outcrop 
> intact, but it is too late now.  I am *not* saying it should not have 
> been published in the book; quite the contrary, who could have known 
> it would be important?  In fact, without the book, and without meeting 
> two rockhounds who had it, *I* wouldn't have known it was there 
> either, and it would not have been
> part of the new study.  Funny how things fall together.
> .....


> Best,
> Don
>
>
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