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PALEONTOLOGY SECTION
HOUSTON GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY
The Paleontology section of the Houston Gem and Mineral Society meets the
3rd
Tuesday of each month. The purpose of the group is to collect, study,
prepare, and exhibit fossils. Our activities include writing, publishing, and
selling books about Texas fossils and localities, regular field trips, study
groups, and classes. Our meetings are open to visitors and new members are
always welcome. Recent and upcoming activities include:
December, 1995 Field Trip
The field trip was to the home of George Wolf to view the vertibrate fossils
and Indian artifacts he personally collected. His extensive collection has
completely taken over two rooms of his house! No collecting on this trip.
January 16, 1996 7:30 PM: Section Meeting.
The program is on vertibrate fossils of Yazo Clay (upper Eocene) from the
Copenhagen locality in Caldwell Parish, Lousiana. The locality has one of
the most diverse fauna in the entire Gulf Coast tertiary. The program will
be presented by Skip Beard, a consulting paleontologist.
January 27, 1996: Field Trip
The field trip will be one or two days to the areas around and south of San
Antonio (Cretaceous). The field trip will be lead by John Moffitt (the
section Chairman) and Chris Garvie (a previous section chairman who now lives
in Austin). Details at the meeting.
February 20, 1996: Section Meeting
Paleoecology program by Dr. Cunningham of the Houston Museum of Natural
History.
March 2nd and 9th: Class on exhibiting fossils
Eight hours of instruction divided on two Saturday afternoons. The
instructors are section founder Irene Offeman and Dr Dick Zingula. We plan
to keep the cost of this class very low.
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Come and join us at 7:30 PM next Tuesday.
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... directions and a map follow ...
Heading south on the Beltway 8 (Sam Houston) Toll Road from I-10 or
Westheimer, you will exit onto the beltway frontage road at the last
exit before being forced onto the SW freeway. If you end up on the
SW freeway, you will travel quite far out of your way before access
allows you to come back. After moving over to the southbound service
road, the second opportunity to turn right will be Roark (clearly
labeled). Once on Roark, turn right at the first opportunity
(Rockley) and go one block to Brooklet. Turn right and park, the
first glass door on your right is the clubhouse.
Heading southwest the SW Freeway, exit to the frontage road just
before the Beltway 8 exit. Turn right just past the Holiday Inn
and then take the first right onto Brooklet. Go almost to the
end of Brooklet, and the clubhouse will be on your right just past
the last intersection that you go through.
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Wilcrest Beltway 8 / SW Freeway (59)
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------------|-----------------------|-----------------/------ Bissonnet
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| A| /
| | / A - Auchan
| | /-----/ Hypermarket
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| Brooklet /| /
| /* / | / * - location of
Rockley ---------------/----/ | / HG&MS clubhouse
|--------------/ / |/ Beltway 8
|-------------/Roark / ends here
Stancliff |---------- / / for now.
| \/ H / H - Holiday Inn
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---------|---/-------- W. Belfort |
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| / north
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/ \ Houston Gem and Mineral Society Clubhouse
/ \ 10805 Brooklet (corner of Brooklet and Rockley
SW Freeway Murphy (713) 530-0942
See you there!
Karl Schleicher
Treasure Paleontology Section
Houston Gem and Mineral Society
kschlei354@aol.com
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