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sleepy
Jan 03, 2014Explorer
I imagine "plate tectonics" as I look at many of your pictures... I took every geology course available when I was in college... loved the field trips.
I had my kids "keying" out rock formations as we traveled the highways and by-ways in our old truck camper. I'd bet my kids were the only ones in their school that could discuss botroidal formations in the road cuts of the Interstate highways that were being built all over the country. No counting license plates for them. They knew the difference between biotite and mucavite... and could identify it at 45 mph on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
We'd stop along the road cuts and look for fossils after a rain... we found whole trilabites, cephlapods, bracheopods...crinoid stems...
I worked a lot of projects in geochemistry... with the emphasis on chemistry. It was so much fun it was like a hobby that you are paid to do...
It is truely amazing what some knowlege of this and that adds to travel... in person or the pictures of friends.
Thanks Steve and Sally for Shareing with us.
Chet
I had my kids "keying" out rock formations as we traveled the highways and by-ways in our old truck camper. I'd bet my kids were the only ones in their school that could discuss botroidal formations in the road cuts of the Interstate highways that were being built all over the country. No counting license plates for them. They knew the difference between biotite and mucavite... and could identify it at 45 mph on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
We'd stop along the road cuts and look for fossils after a rain... we found whole trilabites, cephlapods, bracheopods...crinoid stems...
I worked a lot of projects in geochemistry... with the emphasis on chemistry. It was so much fun it was like a hobby that you are paid to do...
It is truely amazing what some knowlege of this and that adds to travel... in person or the pictures of friends.
Thanks Steve and Sally for Shareing with us.
Chet
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