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Some rockhound friends are coming up from the Lower 48 to attend Alaska's Burning Man festival this weekend and want to know if there are any spots along the road system from Seward to Denali which are an easy win for picking up some nice specimens. Maybe a riverbank where all sorts of rocks are washed up together from a large drainage area, or a fossil bed.
It would be gneiss if they scored some gen-u-ine Alaska rocks, but I do not know schist about where to send them. Not the mud flats, that is for sure! If you have suggestions for places easy to get to (they are bringing kids) along the road system then please do mention.
Thanks!
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Re: Roadside Rockhounding
Thu, June 25, 2009 - 10:09 AMMy sediments exactly. You mica wanna have them pick up a copy of Roadside Geology of Alaska, a paperback carried in all the local bookstores. I'd lend you mine but it is MIA at the moment.
Also, have them contact the Alaska Museum of Natural History (on Bragaw in Mountain View.) www.alaskamuseum.org/ I did a fossil picking trip years ago near Sutton/Chickaloon led by that museum, and it was good, but I don't recall exactly where we went. They are a gneiss bunch.
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Re: Roadside Rockhounding
Thu, June 25, 2009 - 10:42 AMGeology puns rock my world. -
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Re: Roadside Rockhounding
Sat, June 27, 2009 - 10:29 AMGneiss, really gneiss. -
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Re: Roadside Rockhounding
Thu, July 9, 2009 - 12:33 PMOur friends had fun finding rocks and I am sure Alaska Airlines had fun charging them overweight baggage fees, too. They should have used the USPS Flat Rate Boxes.
This is the place which turned out to be most useful for both info on where they should go to find rocks on their own and to buy good specimens from places in Alaska they would not have time to visit in person:
Nature's Jewels
5861 Arctic Blvd # B,
Anchorage, AK
(907) 349-7863
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