Online PDF Files About Craters of Diamonds State Park, Arkansas

Sunday, May 9, 2010 9:46 AM

There are a number of PDF files that can downloaded
from the Internet concerning the Crater of Diamonds
State Park, Arkansas. They include:

1. Crater of Diamonds State Park

http://www.arkansasstateparks.com/images/pdfs/CRATERDM-05.pdf

2. A wonderful geologic map of the Craters of Diamonds State
Park is "Geology of Craters of Diamonds State Park. The PDF
file of it is at:

http://www.geology.arkansas.gov/maps_pdf/geologic/sps/crater_diamonds_state_park_dgm_sps_003%20%2842x31%29.pdf

http://www.geology.arkansas.gov/geologicmaps/dgmsps003.htm

http://www.geology.arkansas.gov/maps_by_series/geologicmaps.htm

Text to the map is at:

http://www.geology.arkansas.gov/geologicmaps/crater_diamond__sps_06_%2024_8.pdf

3. Finding Diamonds in Arkansas by J. Michael Howard (2007)

http://www.geology.ar.gov/pdf/pamphlets/AGES%20BROCHURE-DIAMONDS%2011-13-07.pdf

4. A Gem Among Diamond Mines

http://www.craterofdiamondsstatepark.com/

5. Crater of Diamonds State Park, Murfreesboro, Arkansas

by John & Deb Leahy

http://minnesotagoldprospectors.org/CraterofDiamondsReview.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

PDF Files of Arkansas Geological Survey Fieldtrip Guidebooks

Thursday, May 6, 2010 12:34 PM

Dear Fellow Rockhounds,

PDF files some of the geology fieldtrip guidebooks

for the state of Arkansas can be found in the links in

"AGS Guide Books (GB)" at:

http://www.geology.ar.gov/catalog/guidebooks.htm

The guidebooks, which have downloadable PDF files

available for them are:

1. Guide Book 79-1, A Guidebook to the Ordovician-

Mississippian Rocks of North-Central Arkansas by

J.D. McFarland, III, W.V. Bush, O.A. Wise and D.F.

Holbrook

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/gb79_1.htm

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/GB%2079-1_v.pdf

2. Guide Book 79-2, Geologic Float Guide on the

Upper Buffalo National River by J.D. McFarland, III

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/gb79_2.htm

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/GB_79_2_Buffalo_River_Geofloat_Trip_2.pdf

3. Guide Book 82-2, Guidebook to the Eastern Ouachita

Mountains, Arkansas by C.G. Stone and W.V. Bush

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/gb82_2.htm

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/GB%2082-2_v.pdf

4. Guide Book 84-1 A Guidebook to the Post-St. Peter

Ordovician and Silurian and Devonian Rocks of North-

Central Arkansas by W.W. Craig, O.A. Wise and J.D.

McFarland, III

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/gb84_1.htm

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/GB%2084-1_v.pdf

5. Guide Book 86-4 The Tertiary and Quaternary

Geology of Crowley's Ridge: A Guidebook by M.J.

Guccione, W.L. Prior and E.M. Rutledge

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/gb86_4.htm

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/GB%2086-4_v.pdf

6. Guidebook 94-1 Guidebook to Paleozoic Rocks

in the Eastern Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas by

C.G. Stone, B.R. Haley and M.H. Davis

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/gb94_1.htm

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/GB%2094-1_v.pdf

7. Guidebook 94-2 The Jackfork Formation of

Arkansas: A Test for the Walker-Mutti-Vail

Models for Deep-Sea Fan Deposition by J.L.

Coleman, Jr., Gordon Van Swearingen and Curtis

E. Breckon

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/gb94_2.htm

http://www.geology.ar.gov/guidebook_info/GB%2094-2_v.pdf

Also, there is this Ouachita National Forest webpage

http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/ouachita/natural-resources/minerals/geology_ouachita.shtml

Yours,

Paul H.