Please pardon any duplication; I want to make sure
museums out there are aware of the availability of
this large collection. Please note that any replies
should go to the original poster, Tom Sisson,
USGS, Menlo Park, CA whose email etc. are at the
end of the message.
Carol Edwards, Head, USGS Field Records Library,
Denver
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Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 14:15:32 -0600
From: "Bradford R. Burton" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: Paul Bateman rock collection
To: 'Historical Geology listserv' <[log in to unmask]>
This message came through on the granite-research listserv. Apologies
for duplications, but I thought it might be of interest to those on the
historical-geology listserv who are affiliated with museums or need
teaching collections.
Please direct inquiries to the original author.
Bradford R. Burton
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY 82071-3924
Ph: 307-766-6506 Fx: -5511
http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/faculty/bburton.htm
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>From: Thomas W. Sisson[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 1997 11:15 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Paul Bateman rock collection
>
>Dear all,
>As part of the continued efforts to reduce costs, the USGS is reducing the
>quantity of rock samples stored in its warehouses. In the future, projects
>will be charged $3-5(US) per year per box to store rock samples. One of
>the larger sample suites (681 boxes) is that collected by Paul Bateman
>during his career mapping in the Sierra Nevada batholith in California.
>The size of Paul's collection makes it prohibitively expensive for
>individual projects, like mine, to adopt the sample suite. The sample
>suite spans the Sierra Nevada batholith, the samples are well located, and
>the sample locations are recorded in Paul's field notes and field sheets,
>which are archived at the USGS in Denver. Many of the samples were
>analyzed modally or chemically, with results published in USGS bulletins on
>the individual 15 minute quadrangle maps that Paul published.
>
>This suite is destined to become landfill unless a home can be found for
>it. It will be offered to the Smithsonian, although they have recently
>taken so many other USGS samples that they may be reaching the limits of
>their willingness to accept more. It would also be a large job to go
>through each box and cross-reference the samples contained, their
>locations, the plutons from which they were collected, and so forth. If
>you or your museum would like to take these samples, please let me know.
>If a home is not found for these rocks by the end of the summer, they will
>be discarded.
>--Tom
>
>___________________________________________
>Thomas W. Sisson
>Volcano Hazards Team
>US Geological Survey
>345 Middlefield Rd.
>Menlo Park, CA 94025
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>(415) 329-5247
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