Junebug

stephriz

Are you a geologist?  I saw one of your posts over on MM.

I'm a geologist too.  I work for an environmental consulting firm doing well permit applications.

Junebug060609

Yeah.  Consulting firm doing environmental remediation. 

I feel like a little less of a dork for posting on that thread now.  I read the title and realized that event could really be useful for geologists in the future.

Look at what I found on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/16/darrigo.volcano.impact/index.html?hpt=C1

stephriz

Yeah, I feel like a nerd when there's scientific significance in everyday events that other people just observe. 

Volcanic markers are a pretty cool stratigraphic tool.  Although I hated doing radioisotope dating problems with Uranium in the ash.

I had no idea you were a geologist too.  Pretty cool.

Junebug060609

I *might* have sent my husband assorted diagrams of tectonic plates when he was in Haiti for a while.  Felt like if he's there and is seeing all this happening that he might as well understand the why & how of it. 

I also *might* be looking forward to living in Cali as a chance to see a much more geologically active environment. Not saying I want big things to happen, but to get a chance to see things (Yosemite, San Andreas, andesitic volcanoes...maybe Grand Canyon in our travels) and experience things I've only read about.  Lets just say I'm trying to see the pluses of being sent over there.

Yeah, they are good markers.  I haven't had to deal with them personally, but part of the group I worked for during work study in college did.  They were studying ice cores in Greenland studying climate change.  (I was with the Antarctica group picking foraminifera out of sediment cores...also climate change related.  An entirely unglamorous job, lol)

stephriz

Junebug060609:

Yeah, they are good markers.  I haven't had to deal with them personally, but part of the group I worked for during work study in college did.  They were studying ice cores in Greenland studying climate change.  (I was with the Antarctica group picking foraminifera out of sediment cores...also climate change related.  An entirely unglamorous job, lol)

I was in the sedimentology group in grad school, and while I did muds, all my peers picked forams out of cores.  I was amazed at their detail and persistance with that work. 

We're doing a project for a well in California, and seeing the population density (no room for us to put in the well) and the fault systems made me realize I could never work out there.  Structural geology is a big fat fail for me.

Junebug060609

Mostly I deal with surficial geology.  Thankfully I have a decent background in structural, the prof I had for that class was great and taught how I learn best.  Its a completely different environment than what I learned in though, sooo much more active geologically. 

That's an interesting challenge to find a place for a well.  I'm guessing you're talking about a drinking water well?  I could see how finding a spot with good water (or whatever you're drilling for), enough of a radius around it and without faults that will just go and ruin the thing could be an issue.  Makes me really appreciate how quiet things are on the east coast...makes my job a lot easier, LOL.