OLIVINE/HEMATITE
The current Club President held this club position last year.
Vice President
Your VP received this as a gift for her birthday—A tool geologists often use in the field to break rocks
Rock Hammer
Your Treasurer works as one of two educators with a geology background at this nearby museum. (Where he flexes his biology minor with live animal handling as well!)
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
Originally in this similar major before switching, your secretary was enticed by a free spring break trip to switch to Earth Science.
Environmental Science
This paper thin mineral is your Social Media Chair's favorite
Muscovite
This mineral is the primary component of Earth's mantle.
Olivine
Your VP is an Earth Science Double Major with this as her other Major.
Environmental Science
As a worker in the UD fossil collection, your treasurer has had the most fun identifying mammals from this current Era.
Cenozoic
Alongside his Earth Science major, your secretary has these two related minors and a certificate (Just name one)
Geography, Marine and Coastal Geoscience, GIS Certificate
Your Social Media Chair is originally from here, which was was the first state to require climate change education across all subjects.
New Jersey/Central Jersey
The current PR Chair held this position previously
Treasurer
Your Vice President's favorite mineral is truly this boron containing species.
Tourmaline
Jeremy's favorite kind of rock is this edible carbonate made entirely out of microfossils
Chalk
Your secretary is also the president of this environmentally oriented club at UD.
Native Species Initiative (NSI)
Speleomorphology is the study of this.
Caves
Your PR Chair has hiked the Grand Canyon this many times
3
Of the three different types of general rock classifications, this one is your VP's favorite. They are also commonly associated with volcanic eruptions.
Igneous
Jeremy is stressing over the application for a Senior Thesis analyzing the fossil bird Messelornis which is from this 'old' Cenozoic period.
Paleogene
The term for these rock carvings made over 2000 years ago in a picture taken by your secretary.
Petroglyphs
While our Social Media chair had a great time studying Earth Sciences, she almost chose one of these other majors to study instead.
Psychology or Agriculture & Natural Resources
Your president has travelled to the Smithsonian many times to use this specific type of imaging device to produce magnified images.
Electron Microscopes
When your VP was measuring DGS wells last summer along the C&D canal, she stuffed over 15 of these Delaware state fossils in her pockets.
Belemnites
In wielding the power of fluorescence in preparation for his senior thesis, Jeremy has discovered that certain teeth fossils glow under UV due to this mineral commonly found in teeth
Apatite, Hydroxyapatite in particular
The name of this famous rockhound sometimes found around Penny Hall.
Leo
This environmentally minded Delaware governor and former public school teacher once took a question on live radio from our Social Media Chair.
Gov. Matt Meyer