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AUG
5-8
10-11
THE BIG YOOPER TOUR
VARIOUS LOCATIONS
Led by Geologist Craig McClarren, a Michigan Tech Alum and former President of the Michigan Tech Geology Club in the Keweenaw, explore locations both public and private as we visit sites that are famous for their copper, chlorastrolite (Isle Royale Greenstone), datolite, prehnite, “thomsonite”, agates, specular hematite, epidote, banded iron formation, manganite, and kona dolomite!
SEPT
23
WILDERNESS STATE PARK PICKING PARTY
WILDERNESS STATE PARK
Wilderness State Park is one of the more remote of Michigan’s state parks and is a spectacular spot for rockhounding. While some of its beaches are sandy, near the end of the point the beach turns rocky and has some of the best beach stones you’ll find south of the Bridge… even as you gaze at the Mighty Mac the whole while. It’s an interesting combination of remotely wild and easily accessible.
JUN
17
BAY HARBOR COLLECT-A-THON
BAY HARBOR, PETOSKEY • 11:30am TO 3:00pm
Brachiopods, petoskey stones, Devonian life; oh my! Join geologist Craig McClarren for a guided collecting tour of one of Michigan’s most fossil-rich formations hidden in plain sight! The formation exists as a visible out-crop in the small neighborhood of Bay Harbor, which lies just within the outskirts of Petoskey.
MAY
6
ROCKPORT FOSSIL TOUR
Rockport state recreation Park, Alpena • 10:00am TO 3:00pm
Join us on a geologist-guided tour of Rockport Quarry in the rockiest and fossil…iest of our state parks. The historic quarry is almost entirely made of rough petoskey stone and dozens of varieties of fossils, including cladapora, charelvoix stones, crinoids, horn corals, shells, stromatoporoids and even very rarely trilobites. It is literally impossible for you to not find fossils!
