A special post by Nick Baglow and his group:
Today was a day of lessons. Some in the
manual, some not:
Lesson 1 is fundamental, oft-repeated but temporarily
forgotten in the enthusiasm of the moment: don’t wander into the desert without
your water. Okay, not quite wandering, but that 10 minute foray up the little
hill to check out the ‘simple’ quartz vein may turn out to be not quite that
straightforward. Instead try 3 hours and returning to the vehicle with somewhat
parched throats and more questions than answers. But at the same time you’re
already planning what to do, where to look or who to speak to to solve the
problem. Typical real life fieldwork scenario – great stuff!
Lesson 2 is also elementary in nature. Don’t
get fixated on predicting what you are going to find as that’s a sure way of
ensuring that some curveball will cross your path. Though today the curveballs
were linear in nature with more than our fair share of thrust faults thrown in
to repeat and remove stratigraphy almost at will. Fun, but not ideal when
trying to learn stratigraphic principles perhaps!
Lesson 3 also fell into the unexpected
category. Did you, for example, know that sticking a small square of paper on
your forehead will end a bout of hiccups? Well now you do; it works, and much
like with water-divining we just have to accept and move on….well, after much
discussion that is, which contributed to the previously-mentioned 3 hour
extended foray!
Clockwise from top left: Shane, Penester and Eveline clambering up the sheared basement granidiorites, curing hiccups at the mobile field clinic, no going back to camp until you all agree on the younging direction, and entering data into the field toughbooks at the last outcrop of the day
Tomorrow the lessons will be more formal as we head back to primary school; we're visiting the school in Kuboes to discuss stars, planets rocks and other exciting stuff J
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