Lancaster County Fossil and Mineral Club

Salt towers in Iran. No need to say more...they express it all in unspoken words. Photos by Anahita Arian!

Hakel, Lebanon, has a very intense Cretaceous Age quarry which hosts 100 million year old pelagic fossil fish and other life forms. Prized among the specimens are the viper fish, fanged predator fish that preyed on anything that moved. Collecting is still done on an ongoing basis.

Socially spaced and properly attired, club members returned to the Trinity Church for inside meetings. Tonight, on the big screen, Dr. Roger Thomas led a meaningful presentation on contributors to the lower Cambrian fossil realm, the Kinzers shale of York and Lancaster County PA.

The Wave, about sixty feet high, is a vibrant sandstone formation of red, pink and yellow swirls that abound in the undulating upturned rock in Arizona's... Coconino, County Arizona, part of the Coyote Buttes, Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness.

Club is sponsoring field trips all month to Matoaka Cottages along the Calvert Cliffs for Miocene fossils. Surf was high but the skies did clear on this day.

Pets of all types were welcome today at Shupp's Grove in Adamstown PA to participate in the open-air Mineral Fest. Thanks to the hundreds who attended.

Blue skies are helping wipe away the rock and mineral blues at Shupp's Grove Fossil and Mineral Fest being held today and tomorrow in Adamstown PA. Thousands of available specimens are waiting for visitors. 607 Willow Street, Adamstown PA...from Lancaster County PA...up Route 222 to Adamstown exit...One mile to light at Willow Street... Take a left. Short distance to split in road. Continue on Willow Street. Shupp's Grove is on left about one mile. Free to attend!

One of the very few mineral and fossil shows to be held during the 2020 year takes place at Shupp's Grove in Adamstown PA just off route 222 south of Reading PA. Both Saturday and Sunday August 22 and 23. No gate fee. Many of our club members will be vendors there. It's in a spacious wooded Grove with vendors very spread out. Food and bathrooms are available. Both days opens at 7:00 am to 4:00 pm. Use Google to locate and direct you. Come and have a rocking time!

The "sleeping lady mountain" lies just 33 miles north of Anchorage Alaska. How cool is this, is it real?

Jim Stauffer, a longtime mineral collector gave members a memorable experience delving into the particulars of the Bamford Zinc mine of East Hempfield Township Lancaster County PA

The largest complete fossilized trees have been found in southeast Asia and are almost one million years old. One measured 240 feet in length, which, in terms of a living tree would have been about 330 feet tall; about the size of a redwood. These trees were once part of a tropical forest that thrived then died out in northern Thailand.

Waiting for the meeting to commence... LCFMC held its first gathering at the Pequea Silver Mine in Lancaster County PA.