[Rockhounds] Garnet & Kyanite

[Glenn Wimpee]

We looked it up on the map, and unfortunately, it is too far for us to drive and be back in Salt Lake City by Saturday night for goodbyes to family and new granddaughter before heading back to Mobile, AL on a flight Sunday.
 
We went to the Moab area last week and did some collecting, including a nice grape jasper-agate nodule full of blue celestite Jeanette found. Mostly we were sightseeing. I wanted a specimen from the uranium mine but...
I'll do a more complete report when we slow up.
 
Glenn 

> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:06:19 -0800> From: donhalterman at verizon.net> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Garnet & Kyanite> To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com> > Glenn Wimpee wrote:> > How far is it from SLC?> > > > Are you serious about going now?> > > Well, if that is Salt Lake City, it's about 1.5 hrs. flight from SLC to > Lewiston Airport, then about 3 hrs. drive to the mighty terrain where > kyanites and andalusites are as big as Snickers bars and garnets are too > big to lift. In all seriousness, yes if someone could make it here soon > I would take them out, as long as they provide a high-clearance vehicle > (which I do not have; mine gets me pretty far, but not as far as where > we need to go). We are having an Indian summer right now (if that's not > politically incorrect to say any more) but the weather could turn at any > time. Once it starts snowing, that area is out of reach until next > July. I realize those are long odds, but the offer is truly there.> > The petrology professor and I are talking about going out there this > weekend if the weather holds. She has the jeep. Two of the professors > at Washington State U. down the road are very interested in the types of > garnets I'm finding, with anywhere from one to three zones of growth, > all in the same terrain. Up until now I've been collecting them for > teaching but we need some systematic samples collected at precisely > recorded localities for isotope dating. So far they have used a method > called hafnium/lutetium dating that puts their earliest age at > Precambrian, well over a billion years. I'd like to do some of these > myself to see if my ages correlate; that would need to wait until I > finish my thesis and if they have funding for me to hang around a few > more months after I graduate.> > > Don> > > > -- > _______________________________________________> 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
_________________________________________________________________
Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook – together at last.  Get it now.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL100626971033

--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
---