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Earth Science Day 2015 Earth Science Day is a local celebration of Earth Science Week which is an international event organized by the American Geosciences Institute. This year Earth Science Day will be held on Saturday, October 17 th from 10 AM to 4 PM at the Physical Science Building on the Mesa Community College (MCC) Southern and Dobson campus. The event is co-sponsored by the Earth Science Museum and the MCC Physical Science Department. “Visualizing Earth Systems” is the theme for Earth Science Week 2015 and provides a wonderful opportunity to see how geoscientists use data to investigate different aspects of the Earth. Utilizing the latest technologies, researchers collect data from a variety of different sources and create computerized renderings which reveal interesting relationships and insights into how the Earth works. newsletter Date Volume 1, Issue 1 Earth Science Museum, 3215 W. Bethany Home Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85017 www.earthsciencemuseum.org , [email protected] , 602-973-4291 ESM NEWS and EVENTS By Shirley Cote, Ray Grant and Harvey Jong July 2015 Volume 4, Issue 7 OUTREACH REPORT – July 2015 By Mardy Zimmermann, Outreach Coordinator Summer is a more relaxed and slower time for our Outreach Program. We do continue to do some community events. Lynne and Terry Dyer serve libraries with the Mini-Museum. Robin Evans and I do a program for the Rosson House Museum in Phoenix each June and this July Shirley presented a geology program about the Trail of Time at the Grand Canyon to the Prescott Gem and Mineral Club. We also provided rock kits for an ASU Teacher Workshop this July, and fossils for a Girl Scout event at the Mesa Museum of Natural History. As August approaches, requests for the school year will begin. We were just notified by the Staples Foundation that we are again invited to submit a funding grant for this year. The Staples Foundation has been a big supporter of our Outreach Program. We will be submitting a proposal to expand our hands-on program for middle and high school students. Harvey Jong is already designing a needed project for plate tectonics, and we are looking at other areas like earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, faults, mountain formation and others. Big thanks to Chris Whitney Smith who is very instrumental in getting our invitations to apply for Staples Foundation funding.
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Earth Science Day 2015 Earth Science Day is a local celebration of Earth Science Week which is an international event organized by the American Geosciences Institute. This year Earth Science Day will be held on Saturday, October 17th from 10 AM to 4 PM at the Physical Science Building on the Mesa Community College (MCC) Southern and Dobson campus. The event is co-sponsored by the Earth Science Museum and the MCC Physical Science Department.
“Visualizing Earth Systems” is the theme for Earth Science Week 2015 and provides a wonderful opportunity to see how geoscientists use data to investigate different aspects of the Earth. Utilizing the latest technologies, researchers collect data from a variety of different sources and create computerized renderings which reveal interesting relationships and insights into how the Earth works.
newsletter Date
Volume 1, I ssue 1
Earth Science Museum, 3215 W. Bethany Home Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85017 www.earthsciencemuseum.org, [email protected], 602-973-4291
ESM NEWS and EVENTS
By Shirley Cote, Ray Grant and Harvey Jong
By Author Name
July 2015
Volume 4, Issue 7
OUTREACH REPORT – July 2015 By Mardy Zimmermann, Outreach Coordinator
Summer is a more relaxed and slower time for our Outreach Program. We do continue to do some community events. Lynne and Terry Dyer serve libraries with the Mini-Museum. Robin Evans and I do a program for the Rosson House Museum in Phoenix each June and this July Shirley presented a geology program about the Trail of Time at the Grand Canyon to the Prescott Gem and Mineral Club. We also provided rock kits for an ASU Teacher Workshop this July, and fossils for a Girl Scout event at the Mesa Museum of Natural History. As August approaches, requests for the school year will begin. We were just notified by the Staples Foundation that we are again invited to submit a funding grant for this year. The Staples Foundation has been a big supporter of our Outreach Program. We will be submitting a proposal to expand our hands-on program for middle and high school students. Harvey Jong is already designing a needed project for plate tectonics, and we are looking at other areas like earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, faults, mountain formation and others. Big thanks to Chris Whitney Smith who is very instrumental in getting our invitations to apply for Staples Foundation funding.
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Arizona Rocks 26 Text and photos by Ray Grant
The next foliated metamorphic rock (rocks that have platy or needle like minerals that line up from the pressure) will be schist. Schist differs from phyllite in that you can see the individual mineral grains in schist. Schist will break in flat pieces, but because of the larger crystals they will be rougher than phyllite. The size of the crystals in the schist can range from just visible to inches across. Because the minerals are visible and they can be identified, often the name of the mineral/minerals present is used to modify the rock name. For example muscovite schist, biotite schist, and muscovite garnet schist are commonly used names.
The oldest rocks (Precambrian) in Arizona and the basement rock for the state is schist. There are three general formation names used. In the north and the Grand Canyon is the Vishnu schist, in the central part of the state is the Yavapai schist, and in the south from Phoenix to Bisbee is the Pinal schist. From north to south the rocks become younger in age. In the Phoenix Mountains most of the metamorphic rocks are fine-grained (phyllite) but there are some courser rocks around Piestewa Peak that the geologists call quartz mica schist. Remember as you travel around Arizona most of the schist formations are standing vertical making them easy to recognize.
Pinal schist (quartz mica schist) from the San Tan Mountains, note the rough surface and the reflections from the mica crystals. Vishnu schist in the Grand Canyon, note the vertical structure.
Staurolite cross (twin crystal) in schist from New Mexico, staurolite crosses are reported from several areas around
Cleator, AZ, but are not very common.
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Prescott Gem and Mineral Club 12th Annual Show and Sale
Northern Arizona’s Biggest and Best
July 31, August 1, 2, 2015 Prescott Valley Event Center (Previously Tim’s Toyota Center)
3201 N. Main Street Prescott Valley, AZ 86314
Friday and Saturday—9:00am - 5:00pm, Sunday — 9:00am—4:00pm
Adults ——-$5.00 Seniors (over 65), Vets, and Students— $4.00 Children 12 & Under--Free with
paid Adult
Mingus Gem & Mineral Club ANNUAL SHOW
October 2, 3, 4, 2015 Elks Club Lodge 100 S. Broadway
Clarkdale, AZ Fri. & Sat. 9-5, Sun. 10-4
Adults $2; Children Free w/paid adult
West Valley Rock & Mineral Club HELZAROCKIN’ GEM & MINERAL
SHOW October 9, 10, 11, 2015
Helzapoppin’ Arena 802 N. 1st Street (Miller Road)
Buckeye, Arizona 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. daily
Adults $3; kids under 12 free
Huachuca Mineral and Gem Club
41st Annual Gem, Mineral & Jewelry Show
October 10, 11, 2015 Cochise College
901 N. Colombo Ave. Sierra Vista, AZ 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Free admission & parking
Sedona Gem & Mineral Club 16th Annual Show and Sale
October 17, 18, 2015 Sedona Red Rock HS
995 Upper Red Rock Loop Rd. Sat. 10-5, Sun. 10-4
Adults $3, Children under 12 free
Apache Junction Rock & Gem Club JEWELRY, GEM & ROCK SHOW
November 21, 22, 2015 Apache Junction High School
2525 S. Ironwood Dr. Apache Junction, AZ 85120
Sat. 9 – 5, Sun. 10-4 Adults $3 ($2.50 with coupon)
Teenage students (with student ID) $1 Children 12 and under free
Flagg Mineral Foundation 44th Annual
Phoenix Area’s Largest Gem & Mineral Show
FLAGG GEM AND MINERAL SHOW January 8, 9, 10, 2016
Mesa Community College Dobson Rd. North of the Superstition
Freeway (Route 60) Mesa, AZ
Southwest parking lot 9 – 5 daily
Free Admission & Parking
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ESM’s Upcoming Meeting The Earth Science Museum’s next scheduled Board meeting on August 12, 2015, at the Burton Barr Library, located near Central Ave. and McDowel in Phoenix at 6:30 p.m. in Rm. B. Everyone is welcome to attend.
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Flagg Mineral Foundation
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Maricopa Lapidary Society http://maricopalapidarysociety.com/
Mineralogical Society of AZ www.mineralogicalsocietyarizona.org
White Mountain Gem & Mineral Club www.whitemountain-azrockclub.org
Wickenburg Gem & Mineral Society http://www.wickenburggms.org
www.facebook.com/pages/Wickenburg-Gem-and-Mineral-Society/111216602326438
Staples Foundation www.staplesfoundation.org
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Russ Hart Will & Carol McDonald
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EARTH SCIENCE MUSEUM NON-PROFIT BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Harvey Jong President Mardy Zimmermann VP Outreach Robin Evans Treasurer Shirley Coté Secretary/Asst.
Treasurer
Doug Duffy Ray Grant Bob Holmes Alice La Bonte Tom Parks Jan Rasmussen
Chris Whitney-Smith Jayne Wright
