{"id":31851,"date":"2013-07-26T11:05:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T18:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=31851"},"modified":"2013-08-20T12:46:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:46:22","slug":"rockhounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=31851","title":{"rendered":"Rockhounding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of us, my workdays are spent collecting seed for Seeds of Success.\u00a0 I enjoy working with my fellow intern, Andrew, and we&#8217;re learning a lot about the local flora.\u00a0 However, on the weekends it&#8217;s another story altogether: our focus shifts from the Plant Kingdom to the Mineral Kingdom.\u00a0 Utah is a rockhounding paradise!\u00a0 There are about a dozen sedimentary layers exposed at different elevations as well as scattered igneous dikes\/sills.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got mudstone, sandstone, conglomerates, breccia, you name it from aeolian, marine, and freshwater deposits (both lacustrine and fluvial).<\/p>\n<p>A lot of what we pick up is chert on the surface, weathered out of the sedimentary deposits, but we&#8217;ve also found a few veins of chert in situ.\u00a0 Beyond crystals and minerals, there are also plenty of opportunities for invertebrate fossils, if that&#8217;s your thing.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been getting a lot of use out of a geology pick as well as a set of cold chisels and a sledgehammer.\u00a0 Last weekend we spent a day doing hard labor, breaking rocks hoping to find amethyst\/bixbyite in vugs in rhyolite boulders.\u00a0 Found a few tiny specimens worth keeping, but most of the fun is in the attempt rather than the result!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31851 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?attachment_id=31852'><img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-rock-layers-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?attachment_id=31854'><img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2-pick-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?attachment_id=31855'><img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/4-amethyst-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?attachment_id=31856'><img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/5-chert-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of us, my workdays are spent collecting seed for Seeds of Success.\u00a0 I enjoy working with my fellow intern, Andrew, and we&#8217;re learning a lot about the local flora.\u00a0 However, on the weekends it&#8217;s another story altogether: our &hellip; 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