Shared hobby

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Ellie and Bill Stuut are avid rock collectors and jewelry makers. Both are retired and have turned to these activities for recreation. The process that turned Bill Stuut into a rock collector and jewelry maker is related.

Author: Selbert, Pamela
Recreation, Jewelry making, Rocks

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Porthole to the past

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The diggings made by the Chronister family in Bollinger County, MO, revealed significant information about the Cretaceous period. The diggings yielded mostly fossils of prehistoric turtles, crocodiles, and hadrosaurs.

Author: Selbert, Pamela
Discovery and exploration, Animals, Fossil, Fossil animals

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Missouri's show me minerals

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Missouri is an abundant source for minerals such as barite, agate, galena, sphalerite and manganese. Barite can be found among abandoned mines, while agates among sediments that also yield fossilized specimens.

Author: Selbert, Pamela
Natural resources, Minerals, Minerals (Geology)

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Subjects list: Collections and collecting, Missouri
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