tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17199594.post7457075387635516012..comments2023-04-14T10:27:17.116+00:00Comments on Highly Allochthonous Archive: Spotting geologists in the wildChris Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923865059164569384noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17199594.post-27467053798250075582007-01-07T07:33:00.000+00:002007-01-07T07:33:00.000+00:00My lovely wife got her BS in Geology at BYU and ha...My lovely wife got her BS in Geology at BYU and had a good laugh at the list.<br /><br />You had her dead to rights on "wears tools on strings around neck" and "Explaining to Security that a rock hammer is not a weapon"<br /><br />She did her work with conodonts so the she laughs at this: "Old conodonts don't go extinct. They just lose thier apatite"Jeffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04584793841415965924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17199594.post-28311967192897254722007-01-01T23:09:00.000+00:002007-01-01T23:09:00.000+00:00Overenthusiasm on the subject of dinosaurs.
Or ex...<i>Overenthusiasm on the subject of dinosaurs.</i><br /><br />Or excessive vitriol, from the mammalian paleontologists (and sometimes paleobotanists and -entomologists). Interpaleo squabbling is hilarious!<br /><br />I've always felt so left out because I don't like beer. But I can usually figure out a paleontologist's research focus by his/her subspecies-specific markings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17199594.post-42186096005562099342006-12-07T17:26:00.000+00:002006-12-07T17:26:00.000+00:00The UK is not without intrinsic interest - due to ...The UK is not without intrinsic interest - due to some quirks in structure and geological history, you have surface exposure of a fairly sizable geological section, from Precambrian in Scotland all the way through to the Cretaceous in Kent (the Mesozoic is particularly fine). It's not so good for active tectonics stuff, obviously, which is why I did my PhD fieldwork in New Zealand. <br /><br />Basically, you can find interesting geological problems anywhere. Solving them often comes down to how good your lab equipment is, and the UK has some world-class facilities. The real problem at the moment is the funding situation - getting NERC to fund research which isn't linked to climate change is quite difficult right now.Chris Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923865059164569384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17199594.post-82317776653355553372006-12-07T13:53:00.000+00:002006-12-07T13:53:00.000+00:00That's really funny, although everybody knows that...That's really funny, although everybody knows that mathematicians are the sandals people. Out of interest, isn't the UK a bit of a crap place to do geology when you could be in, I don't know, Australia or somewhere? Is the UK particularly interesting geologically? That's a question from pure ignorance, rather than a snide dismissal, by the way!postbloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17452493585178844137noreply@blogger.com