Feb 2015
05:
General Meeting: 7:30 pm in our regular meeting room.
14:
Valentine’s Day: Take good care of your sweetheart!
16:
Presidents Day: Remember our past Commanders in Chief!
19: Board Meeting: 7:30
pm at the Dearborn’s home
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Del Air General Meeting: Thursday Feb 05, 2015
The meeting begins at 7:30 pm
in our regular meeting room at:
Northridge
United Methodist Church - 9650 Reseda Blvd, Northridge, CA 91324
Guests Are Always Welcome
At Our Meetings & Events.
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Feb 2015 Program: "The Evolution of Whales" presented by Keith Krzywiec
This exciting
presentation consists of a discussion of the evolution of whales from whale
fossil to modern whales. It will followed by an in-depth video of the history
of whales. Keith will also build a whale skeleton from his whale fossil
collection. There will be a large assortment of whale fossil displays and charts.
This is an excellent program for all to enjoy. You are welcome to bring your
whale fossils/bones to be identified. Emmy Silverman-Program
Chairwoman
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WE HAVE ROCK BAGS!
Many thanks go out to Julie Marin, Emmy Silverman,
Leilani Backus, Keri Dearborn, Sharon Fyfe along with Bob & Maxine Dearborn
for helping to sew rock bags. On Jan
8th, the Dearborn home was busy with Julie, Emmy & Maxine at the sewing
machines. Leilani was ironing, folding and moving bags to the next sewing
machine. Bob was turning the finished bags right side out. Jan. 9th was a rainy
Saturday with Maxine and Keri sewing bags until mid-day. Sharon added to the
bag count by sewing quite a few at her home. Bob & Maxine finished on
Sunday afternoon with a total count of 700 rock bags. Thank You Everyone - Now all
we have to do is to fill these 700 bags.
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AN IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL
MEMBERS
The Del Air Club has been asked to
participate in the Chatsworth Park Elementary School Science Night on Friday March 27,
2015 - 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm. We will have an earth science display
featuring rocks, minerals and probably some fossils. We may also have an educational
game for students to play. We will also be selling rock bags at our booth. Please,
if you can help at our booth contact Maxine. It is always a fun time at
our booth. Chatsworth Park Elementary is located at: 22005 Devonshire St.
Chatsworth, CA (Devonshire St & Topanga Cyn Blvd)
Maxine Dearborn –
Education Team
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Support our Hobby...Attend a Local Show
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February 13 - 22: INDIO,
CA
San
Gorgonio Mineral & Gem Society, Cabazon
Riverside
County Fair & National Date Festival
82-503
Highway 11
Hours:
10 - 10 daily
Contact:
Bert Grisham, (915) 849-1674
Email:
bert67@verizon.net
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February 27 - March 8,
IMPERIAL, CA
Imperial
Valley Gem & Mineral Society
Imperial
Valley Expo
200
East 2nd Street
Hours:
Weekends noon - 10 pm; Weekdays 4 pm - 10 pm
John
Pyle, Jr. (760) 562-3453
Email:
jcwus@sbcglobal.net
Website:
www.IVGMS.org
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February 28 - March 1:
VALLEJO, CA
Vallejo
Gem & Mineral Society
Solano
County Fairgrounds, Mc Cormack Hall
900
Fairgrounds Drive
Hours:
10:00 - 5:00 daily
Contact:
Dan Wolke, 707 334-2950
Email:
dncwolke@sbcglobal.net
Website:
www.vjgems.org
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March 6 - 8: NEWARK, CA
Mineral
& Gem Society of Castro Valley
Newark
Pavilion
6430
Thornton Avenue
Hours:
Fri & Sat 10 - 6; Sun 10 - 5
Contact:
Cathy Miller, (510) 887-9007
Website:
www.mgscv.org
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March 7 - 8: ARCADIA, CA
Monrovia
Rockhounds
Los
Angeles Arboretum
301
Baldwin Avenue
Hours:
9:00 - 4:30 daily
Contact:
Jo Anna Ritchey, (626) 359-1624
Email:
joannaritchey@gmail.com
Website:
www.Moroks.com
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March 7 - 8: VENTURA, CA
Ventura
Gem & Mineral Society
Ventura
County Fairgrounds
10
West Harbor Blvd.
Hours:
Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4
Contact:
Krishna Juarez, (805) 323-6725
Email:
info@VGMS.org
Website:
www.vgms.org
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March 13 - 15:
VICTORVILLE, CA
Victorville
Valley Gem & Mineral Society
Stoddard
Wells Road & Hwy 15
Hours:
9 - 5 daily
Tele:
V.V.G.M.C. (760) 243-2330
Website:
www.vvgmc.org/tailgate
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March 14 - 15: SAN
MARINO, CA
Pasadena
Lapidary Society
San
Marino Masonic Center
3130
Huntington Drive
Hours:
Sat 10 - 6, Sun 10 - 5
Contact:
Marcia Goetz, (626) 260-7239
Email:
joenmar1@verizon.net
Website:
www.pasadenalapidarysociety.org
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February
2015: Nevada State Rock of the Month
“Sandstone”
Nevada designated sandstone as the
official state rock in 1987, a result of the efforts of children from Gene Ward
Elementary School in Las Vegas. Sandstone provides some of Nevada's most
spectacular scenery. It is found throughout the state of Nevada in areas like
the Valley of Fire State Park and Red Rock Canyon Recreational Lands.
Sandstone (sometimes known as arenite) is a clastic
sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains. Most
sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most
common minerals in the Earth's crust.
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Jeff & Emmy
Silverman’s Utah National Park Adventure
At 8,000 feet, the sky was a deep blue,
the temperature a balmy 20 degrees, but the sun shined brightly on the hoodoos
of Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah.
Bryce was just one of the stops on our New Year’s 2015 trip. We spent almost two days there soaking in the
beauty of this wonder of nature. Hoodoos are the name for the tall, spindly
rock formations that make Bryce so famous.
They consist of limestone, dolomite and siltstone layers. Over millions of years, erosion from wind and
water sculpted the hoodoos. Erosion is
still occurring today and eventually. Bryce Canyon will completely erode away
in a few million years, so get their today! We spent hours hiking up and down
the trails. About a foot of snow had
fallen a few days earlier, making the hiking more challenging, but decorating
the canyon like a winter wonderland. The
contrast of snow on the red/orange hoodoos made the beauty stand out even
more. There is a series of vista points
along the rim of the canyon that gives you different variation of views, but
all of them are magnificent.
After Bryce, we headed lower in
elevation to Zion National Park, which sets at 3,000 feet. Zion is 1 ½ hours Southwest of Bryce, but the
topography couldn’t be more different.
Zion contains eight layers of sandstone, which took over 200 million
years to carve and mold. The park
contains cliffs, red canyons, mesas, buttes and massive monoliths. You can drive through the park to different
viewing areas and from there you can hike the trails. We spent just a day there, stopping our car
along the way to marvel at the incredible geology and taking in the uniqueness
of the beauty. You are surrounded on all
sides by steep canyon walls, reminiscent of being in Manhattan with the canyons
of skyscrapers. Zion is located along the Colorado Plateau, where the rock
layers have been uplifted and eroded forming a feature called the Grand
Staircase. The bottom layer of rock at
Bryce Canyon is the top layer of rock at Zion and the bottom layer of rock at
Zion is the top layer of rock at the Grand Canyon.
After a breath-taking day at Zion, we
headed to St. George, where we went to the Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson
Farm. This museum houses some of the
best dinosaur tracks in the world.
Dilophosaurus and Grallators were some of the dinosaurs that left their
tracks at the site 200 million years ago during the early Jurassic Period. Visitors walk a path between sandstone and
mudstone slabs which contain the dinosaur tracks. It was amazing to stand where these creatures
stood so long ago.
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January Whale Bone Field
Trip Report
Saturday January 17, 2015 @
Santa Barbara Beaches
Chris Ward – Bulletin Editor
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