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Please share your favorite places in your state relevant to our field with other NESTA members. The following questions may help you think of the places we'd like to identify:

  • What are the places you love to visit to see a great outcrop?
  • What museum or planetarium in your area do you think is the best for seeing a geoscience-related exhibit?
  • What places do you like to visit to see the best examples of landforms?
  • Do you know of good places where you can collect rocks, minerals, and fossils (legally...) - even if at a fee?

Please remember to focus your responses on places that are within 500 miles of you.


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