Lab 6 - Jackson Springs Park

     For this lab the class made a trip to Jackson Springs Park, located in one of Macon's three oldest suburbs. The park was originally part of a larger tract of land (known as Baconsfield Park) that had once also contained a zoo, but much of the land was put up for commercial development. The main purpose of this trip was to be able to find and observe some common rocks and minerals. Items that we brought to aid in this were a magnifying lens and a rock hammer. The hammer was used to break open rocks so that the rocks and the minerals that composed them could be more easily identified. The lens was used to observe (to a degree) the individual mineral crystals and their structure. We were able to find several common rocks such as granite, slate, sandstone and gneiss; we were also able to look at quartz, mica, and hornblende crystals.