Very Gneiss!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

No Schist!



http://www.heritageservices.com.au/images/Schist,%20Kangaroo%20Island,%20South%20Australia_JPG.jpg

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Dude! YOU ROCK!

Someone was bound to say it, so I figured I'd get it out of people's systems...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. Thanks, O Pal!

[Astarho]

7. Nice Opal!

I could carve something cool out of that (alhough personally I hate carving opal, it's very touchy)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. I have a little cat carved from opal

and a really beutiful Australian specimen in its natural matrix.
One of my favorite minerals...

You carve stone?

[redqueen]

24. Oooooh

Pretty. :)

My favorite stone... Thanks!

[bif]

2. Hole shiest!

n/t

[Robb]

4. Some schist and gneiss

...right here, both!

Some Dingbat even wrote a book about it. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. Well I'm gonna have to

put that one on my wish list!

Thanks!

[Ediacara]

6. GoG, you're a geology geek?

That's awesome! As you can probably tell from my sig line, so am I :-)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Nice cleavage!

...in your sig line, I mean! :D

[Richardo]

23. Y'all are just a bunch of sedimental but magmanamous fools...

:7

[Edge]

8. I'm impressed....

a geology thread on the DU?!? :wow:

I feel like I'm in Heaven.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. Oh yeah, we even had a Paleontology thread once

and one on Tectonic Plates.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. Aren't you glad you don't have to wash

tectonic plates? lol

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

16. need a pretty big dishwasher for that

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. My Dad was a geologist

He worked for years and years as a statistician with the now-defunct Bureau of Mines. I guess I caught a little of his bug!

Welcome to DU! :)

[Zero Gravitas]

10. Thats some good Schist !

ba-dum Chhhh!

[BrotherBuzz]

11. You'll be happy to know...

I don't take these pictures for granite....

[Zero Gravitas]

17. I marble at your wit!

:D

[woofless]

18. I'll take that with a grain basalt. n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. Gosh Garnet you guys are punny! nt

[BrotherBuzz]

20. In my considered obsidian....

we ought to wipe the slate clean....although I do lava good pun, these amount to only two/thirds of one - PUN -

[Nihil]

21. Good to see a "dirty" topic in the Lounge

And in a shameless volcanic plug for a low-volume writer ... chalk
this one up as #300!

I studied geology with the Open University and the summer school
noticeboard was always a good opportunity to exercise comments about
bedding, cleavage and that old saw "it's not the size of your hammer
that matters, it's what you do with it!"

Nihil

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. Grin and Barite...

Congrats on #300! :party::beer::toast:

[trof]

25. I'll never take you for granite.

Promise.

[myrna minx]

26. I shale compliment you on your thread, GoG.

n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

27. Hmm - you like rocks ? . . Then you should like this, I DO !

.
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[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. I've wanted to visit Arches

ever since I read Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitaire". What a magnificent pic...Thanks!

[EstimatedProphet]

29. Nice

I miss the southwest...used to work in a fish hatchery in the Grand Canyon...Everywhere the scenery is like that.