June 2021
Mineral Identification with Coyote Short
Coyote Short PG can identify rocks, minerals and Native American artifacts. Bring in your specimens and she will help you identify them! Coyote Short is a Professional Geologist, licensed in Idaho. She is one-half Paiute-Modoc Indian and one-half French. Coyote is the last in her line to carry the ancient knowledge handed down to her by Grandmother Raven on the Paiute side and Grandmother Hallie on the Modoc side. Born in central Idaho, she has lived in various parts of…
Find out more »July 2021
Terry Maley Lecture: How the Yellowstone Hotspot Dominated Northwest Geology for 56 Million Years
The presentation will begin with the first evidence of the Yellowstone mantle plume some 56 million years ago when it was offshore western North America and created the huge oceanic plateau called Siletzia. We will follow the hotspot track through time and space as well as explain how it may have caused such diverse and widespread volcanic and tectonic events that dominated the geology of the Northwest for the last 56 million years. The Yellowstone plume has left a linear…
Find out more »Geode Cracking
Crack a geode and marvel at the wonders within. The most marvelous part...you get to take your geode home with you! Join us at the museum to crack geodes from around the world. Who would believe that a rock could hold such a surprise inside! The event will focus on children, but we will have enough geodes for adults, too. Our Master Geode-cracker, Truman Keith, is coordinating his experienced team and they will cut geodes using a giant pipe-cutter. It’s…
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