Field Trips
Field trip Requirements
You must be an active club member to participate.
You must have you own collecting equipment such as: rock hammers, chisels, pry-bars, buckets, packing material for specimens as a few examples.
We appreciate suggestions you might have for future trips. Please contact Michael Rosso with details at LowerBucksPARocks@gmail.com
2022 Field Trips
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Past Field Trips
11.27.2021 10:00 AM meet up. Petrified Wood in Odessa, DE - Petrified wood collecting trip (cypress from Cretaceous or Paleocene Rancocas Group and later redeposited in a Pleistocene bed, probably 1.5-2 million years old. No special equipment is necessary. This is a John Wolf Memorial Trip. If interested please send an email to LowerBucksPARocks@gmail.com to sign up.
10.24.2021 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM New Paris Limestone Quarry, Bedford County, Pa. If interested please send an email to LowerBucksPARocks@gmail.com to sign up.
09.04.2021 - National Limestone Quarry - We will be visiting two quarries owned by NLQ Middleburg and Mount Pleasant Mills. If interested please send an email to LowerBucksPARocks@gmail.com to sign up. Trip Details
11.28.2020 10:00 AM meet up. Petrified Wood in Odessa, DE - Petrified wood collecting trip (cypress from the Pleistocene, probably 1.5-2 million years old. No special equipment is necessary. This is a John Wolf Memorial Trip. If interested please send an email to LowerBucksPARocks@gmail.com to sign up.
03.21.2020 9:45 AM meet up. Petrified Wood in Odessa, DE - Petrified wood collecting trip (cypress from the Pleistocene, probably 1.5-2 million years old. No special equipment is necessary. This is a John Wolf Memorial Trip. If interested please send an email to LowerBucksPARocks@gmail.com to sign up or sign up at the next meeting.
01.25.2020 9AM to 3PM 52nd Annual Rutgers University Geology Museum Open House. All events will be held in Scott Hall and the Rutgers Geology Museum located on the College Avenue Campus in New Brunswick, NJ. If interested more details can be found at https://geologymuseum.rutgers.edu/museum-events/annual-open-house/2020-open-house-schedule
11.30.2019 at 9:45 AM for Petrified Wood in Odessa, DE - Petrified wood collecting trip (cypress from the Pleistocene, probably 1.5-2 million years old. No special equipment is necessary. This is a John Wolf Memorial Trip. If interested please send an email to LowerBucksPARocks@gmail.com to sign up or sign up at the next meeting.
09.14.2019 - National Limestone Quarry - We will be visiting two quarries owned by NLQ Middleburg and Mount Pleasant Mills. Trip Details
08.11.2019 - Wissahickon Valley. This trip is being held by PSM and we were invited to join.
06.23.2019 - Pickering Valley Golf Course, Phoenixville PA. This trip is being held by PSM and we were invited to join.
06.15.2019 and 06.16.2019 - Justice Kyanite Mine in Virginia. This quarry is run by Fantasia Mining and open to the public only one time this year.
06.08.2019- Fern fossil collecting trip Lackawanna PA.
04.13.2019 at 9am to 1pm- We were invited to join the DMS to collect at Mt. Pleasant (Bart Township), PA. This is trip is for collecting quartz (var amethyst and smokey) crystals.
03.23.2019 at 9:45am for Petrified Wood in Odessa, DE - Petrified wood collecting trip (cypress from the Pleistocene, probably 1.5-2 million years old. No special equipment is necessary.
10.20.2018 at 9AM - We were invited to join the DMS to collect at Mt. Pleasant (Bart Township), PA.
09.22.2018 National Limestone Quarry at 9AM - We will be visiting two quarries owned by NLQ Middleburg and Mount Pleasant Mills. Click here for more details