Geography and Geology Lesson

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dotnmarty

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Well, yesterday we took our visiting daughter out for a little cruise between Everett and Edmonds, WA. It was fun, we saw mountains, ferrys, crab pots, naval ships of the line, Sea Shift and crew, and several seals.
A nice day. As we were leaving the marina my daughter all all of a sudden says excitedly, "turn the car around". I do, and she then instructs "go to that parked U-Haul". I did, and this is what I found.
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Well, perhaps this doesn't excite you. It does me, because I was born in this little mining town 73 years ago. I left there in 1954, the year the mine ran out of ore and the year before the shafts collapsed and whole streets, including the Boro Hall, fell into the ground.
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That's too cool, Marty! And what are the chances of there being some other guy at the same place from the same place taking a cell phone picture at the same time you are taking a picture?!?

That really is neat, and I'm glad you showed it to us.

See you in a few days...
 
Ah, Marty- Franklin Furnace!! Every geologist has heard of that marvelous locale - more than three hundred kinds of minerals - perhaps more than any other single locale! Virtually every mineral museum has specimens from Franklin and probably every geologist has stared at minerals, glowing in UV lite, from your hometown!!

Brought back some fine memories to me also - even our department's museum in Nevada had specimens.
 
Well Harvey, the truth is, when I was growing up, Sussex County, in which Franklin is located, was the New York city milkshed and had more cows than people(Guernseys mostly). NJ had and still has many successful truck farms. That's part of the reason that Campbell Soups and Ocean Spray Cranberries are located there.
As for the "mega minerals", for most of the 19th and 20th centurys Franklin Mine was the largest producer of zinc in the world.
 
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