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- JazX0
Yep Yellowstone is volatile in more ways than one from what I remember. discipler, sometimes you get massive bending of rock, fluids gushing out near fault zones, commonly Breccia is found near these zones. Massive Anticlinal and Synclinal structures form and get flipped if you can believe that one. crazy
- mikotondria20
hey Jaz, thats pretty neat, sir.
My girl got me a lurrrvely trilobite for xmas, and was pleased I liked it, til I showed her that it was once a huge 4 inch bug-like thing, with horrible legs that scuttled around like a big crunchy roach on the seafloor.
Hehe.
- TheTick0
Didn't they find biological nodules on some Mars rocks at one point - I know it was inconclusive..but hey...panspermia baby!!!
- JazX0
When I was in the cool gang in Geoclub we'd hypothesis what a Trilobyte would have tasted like. Probably nice delicate meat under that shell.
God I was a dork.. wait a second I'm still a dork
- TheTick0
Mmmmmm...trilobyte meat...
- JazX0
Didn't they find biological nodules on some Mars rocks at one point - I know it was inconclusive..but hey...panspermia baby!!!
TheTick
(Jan 5 06, 11:56)actually that rock was found in Antarctica
I studied under him for Mineralogy. He taught me to write crystals in shorthand X'lls
- JazX0
well don't quote me on it, but I think Cassidy found that rock. But it was proven to be BS later I think..
- TheTick0
Was it proven to be BS or just totally inconclusive?
- discipler0
Totally inconclusive. They are now doubtful that it came from space.
- JazX0
Hmmm... I lost touch with him, he retired but he had a lot of interesting things to say about meteorites and Antarctica and how they fall
- mikotondria20
ahhh!! crytallography...now that is single the worst, dorkiest subject ever..
Triclinic...one bar,one bar, 0..111...oh god, I think I need to sit down..
Got a cool meteorite off ebay the other day, too, btw
- discipler0
Panspermia is fun idea. The problem is that, on the biochemical level, you still have the same obstacles with evolution. Unless, we speculate that it contained some sort of front-loaded "uber-cell" programmed by some "intelligent designer" to unfold into life as we know it.
- discipler0
You need to throw darts and drink a dark beer, mikotondria. That will get you back on the "cool" track. lol
- JazX0
I HATED, LOATHED X'llography....
The worst, matrices this and that ehhhhh shuddap!
- mrdobolina0
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- mikotondria20
haha, yeah, you konw that Margret Thatcher did her doctorate in Crystallography ???? Jeez..
I mean, with all your other topics in geo, you could kinda think 'yeah, thats cool, I could consider doing research into that, I can see where our knowledge stops, and where I could legitamtely explore the bounds of nature'...but crytallography ?? no way on earth..
I dug stratigraphy, paleogeology, paleoclimatology - isotope ratios etc, palaeontology was cool, even the more obscure aspects of mineralogy....but crystallography...no.
hey discipler - yeah, a nice slightly warm dark beer would be great right now, haha :)
- JazX0
we're geo-bonding
lik chrysolite (olivine) converting to serpentine.
just add water
:P
- JazX0
Did you know Collin Powell has a BS in Geology.
- mikotondria20
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- JazX0
www.matter.org.uk/mats... [gif]
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mikotondria2
(Jan 5 06, 12:30)HAHAHHA
Not Safe EVER!@!!!shoot me