[Rockhounds] change of subject

[teresa jetter]

Thank you Pete.
We may just do that! 
Teri Jetter

--- "R. Peter Richards" <rpr at heidelberg.edu> wrote:

> The only collecting in the Toledo area is in the
> limestone quarries,  
> where one can find calcite, celestite, sulfur in
> some, marcasite and  
> pyrite as small crystals, occasional small galena
> crystals, and  
> fluorite.  The problem is that gaining access is
> difficult, mostly  
> requires going on a club field trip.
> 
> The suburb of Sylvania has a quarry that is famous
> for its fossils,  
> some of which are replaced by pyrite or marcasite. 
> Large and  
> excellent Phacops trilobites were found there.  To
> my knowledge it is  
> now closed to routine collecting, but I think there
> is now a "fossil  
> park" or something of the sort there, where they
> bring in truckloads  
> of material for people to scrounge through.  Not
> what it used to be,  
> but still might be worthwhile if you like fossils.
> 
> Check the web using "Sylvania Ohio fossil", but pay
> little attention  
> to the posting that lists the fossil park as a
> "premiere  
> archeological attraction"(!!!!)
> 
> Pete Richards
> 
> On Jul 10, 2007, at 8:09 AM, teresa jetter wrote:
> 
> > We are going to lake Erie this weekend, and was
> > wondering, What if anything is around the Toledo
> area?
> >   Are there any good beach collecting sites?
> > T.J.
> 
> 
> ___________________________________
> R. Peter Richards
> rpr at heidelberg.edu
> Morphological crystallographer
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
> multipart/alternative
>   text/plain (text body -- kept)
>   text/html
> ---
> -- 
> _______________________________________________
> Rockhounds at drizzle Mailing List
> Subscription Services:
> http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/rockhounds
> List Home Page, with a link to the List Usage
> Policy:
>
http://www.eclecticlapidary.com/Rockhounds/index.html
>