[Rockhounds] Ongoing Eruptions...and green sand

[pmodreski at aol.com]

Aloha, Rockhounds in Hawaii and elsewhere,


Pete Richards wrote to tell me that my post about peridot did not really contain a link to the story about "not really any peridot falling from the skies".  The line I sent contained an invisible hyperlink embedded in the article title, but evidently that gets dropped when the message is posted to the listserv.  So, here is the actual link to that article:



https://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/NOT-REAL-NEWS-Erupting-Hawaii-volcano-not-13007957.php


(watch out this time, in case the url gets broken onto two lines).


Pete (Modreski)


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Nice to read your report on things, Kitty!  I've been keeping pretty well informed about the volcano, through my contacts at the USGS; in fact, I help to prepare and forward (internally) one our reports of links to news stories that mention USGS activities--including what goes on at Kilauea and at HVO.


Speaking of the green sand and the news stories about "green gems falling from the sky" with the volcanic ash, have you all seen the followup to this--that "this isn't really happening", the person who was the source of the whole story, misinterpreted/misunderstood where and how people find peridot on the island--it isn't really falling with the volcanic ash.  Here's a link:



NOT REAL NEWS: Erupting Hawaii volcano not raining gemstones
SFGate | 06/19/2018


Cheers, Pete Modreski