The Nittany Mineralogical Society, Inc., in State College, Pennsylvania

	Nittany Mineralogical Society, Inc. State College, Pennsylvania
	Generally meets the third Wednesday of each month, August through May We are now meeting in Penn State's Earth and Engineering Sciences Building, on White Course Drive off North Atherton Street. See driving directions and Campus Maps . All are welcome to attend our meetings! Mineral collectors and rockhounds, earth scientists and dinosaur lovers will all enjoy our activities.

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JUNIOR ROCKHOUNDS Will meet on Thursdays this Fall: Sept. 25, Oct. 30, Nov. 20, Dec. 17.
Click here for more on Junior Rockhounds

NMS will participate in
Clearwater Conservancy's Spring Creek Day Family Festival at Millbrook Marsh Nature Center, State College, noon to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 28. Dr. Bob Altamura and others will staff a station on crystal growth in minerals. The event is free; tell your friends who are interested in nature and minerals. Please contact Bob if you can help.

October 15th regular meeting:

Fluid-filled Bubbles in Minerals: Trapped Mineralizing Solutions
presented by Dr. Bob Altamura
     Our October meeting will be held Wednesday the 15th at 7:30 p.m., in the room 114 auditorium of Earth & Engineering Sciences Building on the west side of Penn State's University Park campus in State College, PA.
     6:30 to 7:30 p.m.: Social hour, refreshments in the lobby
     7:30 to 8:00 p.m.: announcements; door prize drawings
              annual meeting of NMS, Inc.
     about 8:00 p.m.: featured program

     The event has free admission, free parking, free door prize drawings and free refreshments, and is open to all. Please come and share an enjoyable evening! - - Editor

     Fluid droplets trapped during the process of crystallization of minerals from hot-water solutions and rock melts can yield information about the temperature and pressure of formation – as well as the composition of ancient mineralizing fluids or melts. Case studies of a one-mile long quartz vein complex in southeastern Connecticut and quartz veins adjacent the Gulf of Suez near Gebel Zeit (Oil Mountain), Egypt, will be included.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS and PARKING for Earth & Engineering Sciences Building meetings. After 5:00 p.m. and on weekends, free parking is available immediately across the street from the building. From North Atherton St. (Business Rt. 322) between College Avenue and Park Avenue, turn west (toward the golf course) off North Atherton at the traffic signal marked "White Course Drive." Go past the parking attendant's booth, follow the curve to the left, and just before the stop sign, turn right into the parking lot. The building entrance is a little beyond the center of the lot. For campus maps see http://www.campusmaps.psu.edu/ .

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