(Geologists Anonymous Style ) I'm Stacy, and I am a self-confessed Geo-geek!
I'm currently in my second year at college and I'm studying for my A-levels. Geology is my fave lesson and I am hooked on it! This naturally leads me to get a lot of stick from all my friends. So I found this website and thought I should talk to some like minded rock lovers, as no-one quite appreciates it as I do in my class.
hi and welcome! i assume you know how it feels to enter a museum of ancient arts and still the first thought that arises is: what kinda rock did they use to make those pillars? or...what a lovely granite they used for wall decorations...or outside: why did they use that ugly, non-weather resistant kind of limestone on the outside?
Meadowhall shopping centre has some very nice rocks; sedimentary and igneous. You can see the large plagioclase phenocrysts following flow around the magma chamber. On the "darker" tiles the huge olivine phenocrysts show great alteration. The benches appear to be on a lovely rudist reef limetsone - I spent ages looking at that. Not that any of the other shoppers appreciate any of this...
hey stacy, hows it goin? (Im a little late on the reply I know hehe). Wow Im studying for my AS levels, geology really does rock! I also get a bit of stick from my friends cos I'm a geo dude especially the geographers (there's an on going fight between geology and geography at my colleage) anyway ill c u around
what's the best if you see a rock and can immediately see where it comes from - that's rare but happens.
or when there is a construction site around here i am always hoping they are excavating really deep. 5m or more. thats because in a depth of 5m we have a layer of sediments containing amber from the baltic sea. a pity i havent been able to find a good construction site, yet.
Rank: Gypsum
Joined: 12/07/2007
Points: 54
hi and welcome! i assume you know how it feels to enter a museum of ancient arts and still the first thought that arises is: what kinda rock did they use to make those pillars? or...what a lovely granite they used for wall decorations...or outside: why did they use that ugly, non-weather resistant kind of limestone on the outside?
Rank: Fluorite
Joined: 19/01/2006
Points: 390
You too!
I've often been dragged round art museums and spent more time looking at plinths, floors and pillars than the exhibits.
Geologists like a nappe between thrusts
Rank: Calcite
Joined: 29/01/2006
Points: 236
Welcome!!
My local art gallery has some fantastic bivalves in its polished limestone columns...
Rank: Corundum
Joined: 18/12/2006
Points: 3524
Meadowhall shopping centre has some very nice rocks; sedimentary and igneous. You can see the large plagioclase phenocrysts following flow around the magma chamber. On the "darker" tiles the huge olivine phenocrysts show great alteration. The benches appear to be on a lovely rudist reef limetsone - I spent ages looking at that. Not that any of the other shoppers appreciate any of this...
Geologists are gneiss!!
Rank: Talc
Joined: 21/08/2007
Points: 1
hey stacy, hows it goin? (Im a little late on the reply I know hehe). Wow Im studying for my AS levels, geology really does rock! I also get a bit of stick from my friends cos I'm a geo dude especially the geographers (there's an on going fight between geology and geography at my colleage) anyway ill c u around
Rank: Gypsum
Joined: 12/07/2007
Points: 54
what's the best if you see a rock and can immediately see where it comes from - that's rare but happens.
or when there is a construction site around here i am always hoping they are excavating really deep. 5m or more. thats because in a depth of 5m we have a layer of sediments containing amber from the baltic sea. a pity i havent been able to find a good construction site, yet.