Blackhawk Gem & Mineral Society: Saturday July 17th, 2010 - Fertile Quarry near Forest City in north-central Iowa. More info
Cedar Valley Rock & Mineral Society: Sunday, July 18th, 2010 - Conklin Quarry, Coralville, Iowa. More info
Expo 33 will be held in Western Hall on the Western Illinois University campus from:
The theme will be "The Cretaceous", and the keynote speaker will be Dr. Steven Nicklas of Atlanta, Georgia.
His keynote is titled:
If you are interested in becoming a table dealer, it is never too early to reserve one!
One comment that popped up from a lot of folks at Expo was that people would enjoy seeing more
frequent club newsletters. To do that, we need YOUR STORIES - the Digest Newsletter is member driven,
and submissions have dropped off in recent years.
The stories do not need to be fancy ultra-scientific things!
Such simple topics as a favorite fossil collecting trip story, or a description of some great fossil find of yours would
be just the sort of thing we could use in the newsletter!
Submit your pictures too - really cool ones just might end up on the cover!
Please send your submissions to the Newsletter editors, John Catalani or
Chris Cozart; alternately you can contact one of the webmasters - our contacts
are listed in the lower right corner of this page.
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Crinoid fossil found on a club trip to Klein Quarry in Coralville, IA in rocks of the Cedar Valley Group in October 2008 by MAPS member Dennis Sievers. Prepared by MAPS member Karl Stuekerjuergen. Middle Devonian in age - approx 375 million years old.
