younchem
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Bonefish wrote:My husband is a petrolum geologist. I am sure he will respond to this site soon. I have lived around rocks and fossils for over 35 yrs. I have gone on many geoloical field trips before marriage and after.
Sharon
I tried to get my wife interested in the geological field trips. I even bought her a rock hammer. One day we stopped at a roadcut and I jumped out (urging her to follow) and started looking for something. I had not noticed that she slipped away. I then noticed her sitting on the hood of the car using the rock hammer as a back scratcher...I knew that I had lost her.
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Bonefish
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Younchem,
If I had done that with a rock hammer, I won't go there. Our children even did the rock picking. Oldest can tell you every roadside cut out from here to San Antonio. We all enjoy looking for that great find of the day. Now it is only my husband and I that look. I had a friend ask me if I dusted the rocks in the house. What a stupid question. I vacum them off. Most of the rock & fossils stay in the house from the elements outside. Except the old fossil that pulls my TT. Sorry honey.
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younchem
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I see you are from Midland. I'm spending a couple days in Midland at the Hilton. Ate at Wall Street Grill last night and going to Luigi's for Italian food tonight. Tomorrow headed to Carlsbad for some field work. It has been colder than I expected--it was 22 this morning. I miss the RV!
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Bonefish
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Yes we do live in Midland. Wall Street Bar and Grill is a great place to eat and Luigi's is too. I understand the missing of the RV. Now when DH does work in the field we take it with us. Beats the hotel any day. Went to the SW AAPG Convention in Abilene and towed the camper. I stayed at Abilene SP with only three other campers. It is suppose to warm up this weekend. Should have gone camping.
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younchem
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Upon returning home from a long trip years ago I found rocks stashed everywhere. Besides a couple that I picked-up the kids had rocks stored everywhere--some weighing pounds. Some asphalt and concrete too.
To minimize this disorderly mess of unidentified rocks I prepared a piece of 11" X 17" stiff cardboard for each of the kids by drawing 2" x 2" squares on them. They were then limited to gluing small thumbanail samples of what ever they wanted to the board with Elmer's glue. I then assisted with writing the rock type and location under the sample. By the end of the trip they had nice thumbnail collections that could be mounted on the wall. Since they start mounting at the top any excess cardboard at the bottom can be trimmed off, but they usually come close to filling it up--they become competitive on this issue!
I left a space at the top to label the trip and year. They brought these collections to school many times over the years.
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My education was in geology, including 5 years of grad school. Never worked as a geologist, though. We are rockhounds now.
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younchem wrote:Upon returning home from a long trip years ago I found rocks stashed everywhere. Besides a couple that I picked-up the kids had rocks stored everywhere--some weighing pounds. Some asphalt and concrete too.
To minimize this disorderly mess of unidentified rocks I prepared a piece of 11" X 17" stiff cardboard for each of the kids by drawing 2" x 2" squares on them. They were then limited to gluing small thumbanail samples of what ever they wanted to the board with Elmer's glue. I then assisted with writing the rock type and location under the sample. By the end of the trip they had nice thumbnail collections that could be mounted on the wall. Since they start mounting at the top any excess cardboard at the bottom can be trimmed off, but they usually come close to filling it up--they become competitive on this issue!
I left a space at the top to label the trip and year. They brought these collections to school many times over the years.
Thats a great idea! thanks!
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Roy&Lynne
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tatest wrote:I'm a retired geologist RVing, and know at least a half dozen others who RV, camp, or find other excuses to be outdoors.
I've learned not to try to lecture on geology to people who don't care. Some friends in China took me to Yunnan, to hike into Tiger Leaping Gorge. I kept stopping to look at structure and mineralogy, they tolerated that. When I explained what I was looking at, why it was interesting to trace a fault from one side of the gorge to another, they shook their heads and walked on.
Different people have different interests.
Where are you when I need you. I still don't understand what a HooDoo is!!
The reason we love RVing is so we can check out the areas geology, history, wildlife refuges', bird life, etc. You can't see any of that when your sitting at home.
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Dick A
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I can just see younchem's RV - looking something like the long long trailer, in the movie, filled with rocks. 
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younchem
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younchem wrote:Upon returning home from a long trip years ago I found rocks stashed everywhere. Besides a couple that I picked-up the kids had rocks stored everywhere--some weighing pounds. Some asphalt and concrete too.
To minimize this disorderly mess of unidentified rocks I prepared a piece of 11" X 17" stiff cardboard for each of the kids by drawing 2" x 2" squares on them. They were then limited to gluing small thumbanail samples of what ever they wanted to the board with Elmer's glue. I then assisted with writing the rock type and location under the sample. By the end of the trip they had nice thumbnail collections that could be mounted on the wall. Since they start mounting at the top any excess cardboard at the bottom can be trimmed off, but they usually come close to filling it up--they become competitive on this issue!
I left a space at the top to label the trip and year. They brought these collections to school many times over the years.
I should also add that if you place a large amount of glue in the square you can sprinkle sand or gravel of many types to the space for keeping. I'v also seen the kids add different types of conifer cones, sea shells, fossils and one very large beetle.
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