tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post8716867795579343850..comments2024-03-17T18:37:36.377-07:00Comments on Geotripper: A Lucious Churn....Garry Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00531226195147986457noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-50528848402944153692010-12-02T17:33:33.139-08:002010-12-02T17:33:33.139-08:00That is a luscious photo. Maybe he meant the soil ...That is a luscious photo. Maybe he meant the soil is a chernozem.Andrew Alden, Oakland Geology bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17369367151045054784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-70328037751536589262010-12-02T15:08:54.514-08:002010-12-02T15:08:54.514-08:00This is Great! Being only an informal educator the...This is Great! Being only an informal educator there's no written tests. But I did have a 9 year old boy this summer keep asking me about the Vishnu Shit. Which, BTW, I did take a nice close up shot of just for you Garry.Gaelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05784162697113288888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-91537971822777804212010-12-02T12:58:08.560-08:002010-12-02T12:58:08.560-08:00Callan, it took me awhile, but I reached the same ...Callan, it took me awhile, but I reached the same conclusion, because we were looking at the blueschist knockers in the photograph. We were standing next to a busy highway, so I finally realized the same thing you did, that he heard "loo-shiss", when I describing that the chunks of rock were carried deep into the accretionary wedge, metamorphosed to the blueschist facies, and then "churned" upwards back to the surface. I blushed when I called them blueschist knockers. I should call them tectonic blocks or somethingGarry Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00531226195147986457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-61678312875887920442010-12-02T03:39:30.323-08:002010-12-02T03:39:30.323-08:00My favorite was "camouflage" spelled as ...My favorite was "camouflage" spelled as "camel flash!"<br /><br />As for your question, could it be "a blueschist churned"? Rather than read "lucious" as "luscious," I'm reading it as "loo-shiss," which seems like a fair neophyte hearing of "blueschist." Were there blueschists there?Callan Bentleyhttp://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-68850682894204855922010-12-01T21:27:46.413-08:002010-12-01T21:27:46.413-08:00A female colleague who taught oceanography had stu...A female colleague who taught oceanography had students write a report about a field trip to the beach. One student started her report by saying: "We went to see the beach." Unfortunately, she spelled beach "b, i, t, c, h"!Randy A.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-31588095682562223662010-12-01T19:57:21.860-08:002010-12-01T19:57:21.860-08:00In grad school I was a teaching assistant for a ge...In grad school I was a teaching assistant for a geomorphology class, and an exam question referenced sub-glacial floods in Iceland and Alaska -- fishing for the students to define "jokulhaups."<br /><br />In fairness, I didn't expect too many students to get it right, but we got back 22 exams with 22 different spellings of the word, none of them correct. I no longer have the list, unfortunately.jrepkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10624685961793402257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-39758706322415396312010-12-01T17:29:26.737-08:002010-12-01T17:29:26.737-08:00A prof who was a stickler about these things when ...A prof who was a stickler about these things when grading student presentations had a "FOODPLAIN" in their glacial-themed GSA talk.poikiloblastichttp://www.twitter.com/poikiloblasticnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-64154740687311984472010-12-01T17:02:30.740-08:002010-12-01T17:02:30.740-08:00My bête noire is 'slip and slides'
Just ...My bête noire is 'slip and slides' <br /><br />Just a few from my <a href="http://www.keele.ac.uk/eesg/students/linksandresources/examhowlers/" rel="nofollow">howlers page</a> ...<br /><br />fallen basin<br />himalayers<br />choking-coal<br />persuasive cleavage<br />hoax genes<br />sizeometerHypocentrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11861680448492241902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-83859380892579460332010-12-01T16:57:17.293-08:002010-12-01T16:57:17.293-08:00I misspelled "debris" as "derbis&qu...I misspelled "debris" as "derbis" on a strat and sed II midterm, and our prof, who loved to spend half an hour of class doing post mortems, spent way too much time belaboring the point. I thanked him by telling him, the next term after grades were official, that I didn't feel the class involved enough work or new learning to be worth a 300-level credit.Lockwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05960762797349483760noreply@blogger.com