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  An introductory website on the peculiar minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey. Contains photos, text, and links. Comprehensive scientific study of the minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey. Written and published by Pete J. Dunn in 1995. Classic 1935 monograph by Harvard professor Charles Palache, on the minerals of Franklin and Sterling HIll, New Jersey. Originally published by the USGS as Prof. Paper #180. Biographical materials on Professor Charles Palache, famed mineralogist and crystallographer. Nature photos from a trip to the Big Island's Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.  
  Franklin &
Sterling Hill
Minerals		   Dunn (1995)
On-line		   Palache (1935)
On-line		   Palache
Biographical
Materials		   Hawaii
Volcanoes
Nat'l Park		  
                     
  A fluorescent mineral collecting trip travelogue from Greenland   Fluorescent mineral photo gallery, with details and references, on the exquisite fluorescent minerals of Ilimaussaq, Greenland.     Some background on crossbar-type electromechanical switching systems, and visit to a telephone switching systems museum in Seattle, Washington.   Underwater photographs from several diving trips in Asia and the Caribbean.  
  Luminous Travels:
Ilímaussaq,
Greenland 		  Fluorescent
Ilímaussaq
Minerals		   St. Petersburg,
Russia		   Crossbar
Switching 		  Diving Photos
from
Warm Seas		  
                     
  Photos and descriptions of a trip to the Auschwitz/Birkenau camps, in Poland.   Brief description of nuclear weapon technology.   Interesting early fireball photographs, via the 'Rapatronic' camera.   Photos from a climb up Southeast Asia's tallest peak: Mount Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo (Sabah province).    
  A Visit to
Auschwitz		   Nuclear Weapons
Primer		   Rapatronic
Photos		   Mt Kinabalu,
Borneo		   Barcelona  
   
                Personal pictures and postcards - for family and friends.  
                     
  Benitoite trip               Misc. Pictures
& Postcards		  
   
 

 
 

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