DMC/FIELD TRIP COMMITTEE
FIELD TRIP FOR NOVEMBER

DMC Program of the SFMS Field Trip Committee
An Official Field Trip of the Knoxville Gem and Mineral Society.)  (HOST)

10:30 AM Eastern, 9:30 Central (Sharp!)
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Dale Hollow Lake, Byrdstown, TN.

 

TRIP:  Knoxville Gem and Mineral Society will host a DMC field trip to Dale Hollow Lake for agatized Crinoid stems and plates.  It has snowed and sleeted on previous trips at this time of year, so come prepared for cold weather.

COLLECTING:  Agatized Crinoid stems and heads, agatized plates of exposed crinoids material and geodes along the shore of Dale Hollow Lake,

 

BRING:  You will need to bring scratching tools to work the beach, a bucket and Ziploc(tm) bags to store your finds.  You may want to include your rock hammer for plate trimming.  For geode collecting you will need to bring along a couple of 5 gallon buckets, a pick, and a shovel.  Bring rubber boots and a change of clothes if you want to dig in the lake.  As always, bring your lunch, plenty of fluids, a hat, and gloves. 


This field trip is suitable for children.


"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!"

DMC Program / SFMS Field Trip committee's purpose:
To collect field trip information from it's member societies; schedule and coordinate field trip dates; disseminate field trip information to all member clubs so that each member society may publish this information as one of their "official" scheduled field trips.
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DMC/Field Trip Committee
A program of the Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Inc. 
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