Let's hear it for geology

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:24 pm

I do miss living by the ocean!

Susan

Caj · Post by **Caj** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:39 am

SteveShaw wrote:

If the geology bores you, I can tell you that the house peeping out at top right is the location for the last series of "Nighty-night!"

You can't fool me with the bogus "house" explanation. Everyone knows you guys are breeding an army of enormous cats.

Caj

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:41 am

Caj wrote:
SteveShaw wrote:

If the geology bores you, I can tell you that the house peeping out at top right is the location for the last series of "Nighty-night!"
You can't fool me with the bogus "house" explanation. Caj

Hey, the only bogus House around here is me!

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:46 am

If it's sonority you are after, Norn Iron's Eskers and Drumlins and the feature for you.

They are what makes "Bandit Country" exactly like a childs model farm on an eiderdown (or a counterpane, or a duvet).

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:37 pm

Organising the digital images on a new computer. Here's a few appropriate to this thread although I wouldn't be able to name what you see here. I do know (I was told) the formations closely match formations on the Canadian East coast so it is assumed they drifted across the Atlantic.

This is the south side of the mouth of the Shannon, just off Ballybunion. The Cliffs of Dooneen or thereabouts. Plenty of sea caves, full of seals and large groups of dolphins cruising about. The stack is the Devil's footstool, the formation behind it obviously the seat (I forget the name).

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:45 pm

Give me about 2 1/2 months and I can show you a degree in geology.

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:03 pm

TelegramSam wrote:Give me about 2 1/2 months and I can show you a degree in geology.

So you're pretty well grounded in the field?

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:25 pm

DougT wrote:Now, back in Indiana, I collect granite rocks from the stream beds for my rock garden. I tell my neighbor that these rocks came from Canada.

PeterL wrote: the formations closely match formations on the Canadian East coast so it is assumed they drifted across the Atlantic.

We'll just have those back, now, if you don't mind. Thenk you.

djm

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:31 pm

djm wrote:
DougT wrote:Now, back in Indiana, I collect granite rocks from the stream beds for my rock garden. I tell my neighbor that these rocks came from Canada.

PeterL wrote: the formations closely match formations on the Canadian East coast so it is assumed they drifted across the Atlantic.
We'll just have those back, now, if you don't mind. Thenk you.

djm

... I suppose now you'll be wanting all the boulders back that your wayward glaciers pushed down into Minnesota... you're welcome to them, as I am certain any Minnesotan farmer will tell you.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:42 pm

Joseph E. Smith wrote:
djm wrote:
DougT wrote:Now, back in Indiana, I collect granite rocks from the stream beds for my rock garden. I tell my neighbor that these rocks came from Canada.

PeterL wrote: the formations closely match formations on the Canadian East coast so it is assumed they drifted across the Atlantic.
We'll just have those back, now, if you don't mind. Thenk you.

djm
... I suppose now you'll be wanting all the boulders back that your wayward glaciers pushed down into Minnesota... you're welcome to them, as I am certain any Minnesotan farmer will tell you.

During the last continental glaciation Canada did not exist, therefore, Canada cannot substantiate a legal claim. I sure that there are lawyers who would disagree with that, however.

Joseph, are you feeling OK, or is it just getting close to St. Patricks day and you like to see your name in shamrock green?

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:14 pm

Doug_Tipple wrote:
Joseph, are you feeling OK, or is it just getting close to St. Patricks day and you like to see your name in shamrock green?

To the best of my knowledge, I'm OK.

I just like to periodically go in and out of stealth mode.

rebl_rn · Post by **rebl_rn** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:18 pm

True story:

My dad and his brother took a class at the local community college in geology (they were both "adult learners" when they took this course). I'm not even really sure why they took it, but anyway...

One day, my uncle stood up in class and said, "I have developed a new theory on geology I'd like to share with the class. I have discovered that all rocks can be placed in one of two categories: BFR's and LFR's."

"Oh really?" said the professor. "So what are BFR's and LFR's?".

My uncle replied, "Big F***ing Rocks and Little F***ing Rocks."

You know, I'm not sure if my uncle passed the class.......

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:30 pm

DCrom wrote:
TelegramSam wrote:Give me about 2 1/2 months and I can show you a degree in geology.
So you're pretty well grounded in the field?

Rock solid, my friend, rock solid!

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:13 pm

A pic I took today of Whale Rock on the beach at Bude in Cornwall. A lovely example of an anticlinal (upward) fold in Upper Carboniferous sedimentary rocks. There's a bloke about half way along it on the upper side to give scale. It's quite a famous site really (if you're a geologist...

).

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:17 pm

Beautiful, Steve! It looks quite a bit like a burned-out tree trunk. Next time put something in the picture so we can get the scale (a coffee mug? yourself? piece of money? ... )

Susan

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