DDMC/FIELD TRIP COMMITTEE
FIELD TRIP FOR FEBRUARY 2001 
Saturday, February 24, 2001
10:00 A.M. - Eastern Standard Time
Ft Payne, Alabama
"An Official Field Trip of Rome Georgia Mineral Society" (Host)
and An Official Field Trip of the (enter your associated club's name here!)

             "Crinoid stems, calyxes, horn coral, quartz and calcite geodes"

The Rome Georgia Mineral Society invites all Dixie Mineral Council club members to a fossil collecting trip. Crinoid stems are varied and abundant, some are up to 1 1/4" in diameter and 5" in length. Less abundant are the calyxes (heads) of at least three species, horn corals up to 6" in length and some brachiopods. Also abundant are geodes 6" or less in diameter. Most are junky, but with persistence, you can find some with nice quartz crystals. Calcite geodes occur in the hard limestone. Also abundant are
limestone slabs with crinoid stems all over.

The property owner requests the following for us to be allowed to collect on his property:

1. Everyone must sign a release before the trip. We will provide these at
the meeting place. If you are bringing a child that is not your own, you
must bring a signed release from his parent(s) or guardian(s). Please call
or e-mail and arrange to have one sent to you.
2. All material collected will be for educational, hobbyist and recreational
purposes and not for resale. Anyone discovered selling material from the
site will be not be allowed on future trips sponsored by this club to this
site.


This trip offers easy collecting and is terrific for families with children because the material is everywhere. It does require a short but steep climb to the productive collecting areas. Wear appropriate (and layered) clothing because the area is exposed to the elements.

Basic Tools: Bucket, ziploc bags, screwdriver, small digging tools   Serious tools: Picks, hammers and chisels if you want to go for the limestone slabs  Other supplies: Lunch, fluids, sunscreen

Where: "Western Sizzln" parking lot at the corner of 22 Street, NW and US 11 North.
When: 10 AM, Saturday, February 24, 2001.
Directions to our meeting place:  From the intersection of SR 35 and US 11 in the center of Ft. Payne, drive about 2 miles North on US 11 to the parking lot of the Western Sizzln.  This is on the left (West) side of US 11 between a Chevrolet dealer and the Dekalb bowling Lanes.

 

"Field Trips are open to all members of associated clubs of the DMC program of the SFMS Field Trip Committee and to all members of SFMS member clubs who have provided their membership with SFMS liability insurance. Because of insurance requirements, members of the GENERAL PUBLIC are NOT invited on this or any DMC program field trips!"

 
 
The Dixie Mineral Council/Southeast Coalition of Field Trip Leaders
 A program of the Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Inc.
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