Finally back in CT for a while. Lots to post but more to catch up on. Here are some cool stromatolites in dolomites of the Naukluft Nappe complex. There's a thin layer of sand over the top of the carbonate bed. I wonder what this represents. Was it a wave that washed sand between the bioherms? Did it kill them? I didn't see the beds above. Isn't it incredible how the sedimentary record is a stack of discrete moments - not a continuous record. Just snapshots.
I love being a geologist because I can hike up a cliff on a dry hot windy day in southern Africa, watch a meerkat shading himself with his tail, scare a herd of Hartman's Mountain Zebra up the slope ahead of me, then sit on this 550-million year old warm shallow sea and imagine a tropical, tectonically active world owned completely by algae and possibly some ediacaran fauna - no shells, no teeth, no fish, no birds. Must have been a quiet and peaceful world.
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Love your blog, Christie.
I'll use as part of my lessong with Youth at church tomorrow...reminding them that the earth is very, very old....Mom
Hey Christie!
So I'm working on a Structure Lab and I needed to know what an overturned fold symbol looked like. I googled it, and found you... Very cool that you are documenting you're experience there! I'm a senior Geology undergrad at the University of South Florida and, like you, am looking for something more. I want to travel, step outside my comfort zone, be more intune with my self, as an idividual. I'm currently looking into grad school at Michigan Tech - they have an international Peace Corps program.. In three years, I get an invaluble experience and a masters degree! If you have any thoughts, or words of wisdom I would sincerely welcome a response, as lately I've been feeling super overwhelmed about this daunting grad school hunt. My email address is ldbrewer@mail.usf.edu - email me even just to say hey... I really value feedback and guidance from people who have already walked in my shoes...
Thanks for posting this - gives some great perspective on opportunity..
Hope to talk to you,
Lindsey Brewer
The visual imagery of you laying on a blow-up raft, beer in hand, grin on face, in a shallow, algae-dominated sea surrounded by active tectonics makes me feel warm, tan, and relaxed. Can I come?
I used the word "Ediacarian" on my UCSC preliminary interview, and they all looked at me like I was from Mars. They were looking for me to say something about "hard parts", and I laughed that them, thinking about "duripartic preservation". Duripartic only gets 33 hits on Google, so I guess its really those UCSC professors who are laughing now. I blame Stig Bergstrom. I hope you are doing well, Christie.
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