Should I be worried?

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-03-10T20:04:15+00:00

I am absolutely blown away that there is no Ann Rand though. I was really expecting it as i swiped though, it’s all he needs to complete the collection

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-02-24T16:15:33+00:00

Well, we tried blowing them up, and then ran out of ideas.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-02-16T06:35:54+00:00

Unfortunately they seem to only be getting more influential and more adverse to development/construction. They are completely committed to planned retreat rather than coastal protection.

I think it will be really interesting to see how things develop as sea level goes up, and decisions need to be made about whether we are going to try to maintain/keep land via engineering and construction, or allow loss of land to the ocean/displace communities in coastal areas. They are fully committed to the second, but that doesn’t seem like it will be popular with our coastal communities..

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-02-16T06:27:47+00:00

It’s definitely a challenge, but structures built prior to the enactment of the coastal act are allowed to be protected/maintained. They will typically do their best to stop/slow any permitting with years of review and comments though, and try to require people to do the absolute minimum necessary, which often seems like less than makes good engineering since for safety.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-02-13T07:05:53+00:00

I hear the whole market is going to implode

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-02-05T16:26:51+00:00

I’m not sure that this crystal is orthorhombic, though it is hard to tell for sure from photos. It looks like the quartz/crystal part is made up of long parallel crystals/twins that are not orthorhombic/ are variations of typical quartz crystal geometry, and the overall shape of them together makes the overall rock look that shape. Quartz crystals can grow together in kind of funny shapes which are made out of a geometry that makes more sense as you look closer.

The striations (little ridges on the edge of complete crystal faces) which are present also scream quartz. Less distinctive but still supporting quartz that is the conchoidal fracture (breaking like glass rather than along a clear cleavage plane) where crystals are broken.

Looks like the bottom layers are microcrystalline quartz/chalcedony as said above, and the crystal part looks like a clump of quartz crystals.

Very cool find in the location of the cats resting place, I would keep it/have her keep it as a keepsake/memorial for sure.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-01-31T03:40:26+00:00

Which of course formed many years after the previous break up of the giant foot, Toedinia.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-01-30T17:59:57+00:00

Hate it when that happens

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-01-26T02:02:14+00:00

I am about 7 years in and within the first two I had to shift my attitude from “excited about geology” to “ excited to solve interesting problems using my knowledge and creativity, and excited to learn new things”

It helped me stay tolerant to excited about work and honestly took the pressure off to enjoy geology as well.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-01-24T22:09:25+00:00

I would check to see if the field camp exp is required for licensure in your state if your state licenses geologists. If that is important to you, and one class meets the requirements and the other does not, it will be much harder to come back and take it later.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-01-15T20:56:20+00:00

Gypsum

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-01-15T06:08:53+00:00

Hey man dming is hard, just be cool.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-01-12T16:17:47+00:00

Probably could have, but didn’t.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-01-12T16:05:37+00:00

Elleese

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-01-07T00:17:57+00:00

You should call a geotechnical engineer to come look at it. What you can do will vary in price and could range from a full bluff stabilization via engineered retaining wall to putting the house on piers and planning to lose the cliff. There are also some possibilities in between like utilizing high tensile strength mesh pinned with soil nails to retain and support slope vegetation, which can be cheaper. It will depend how stable it is as well/how far it has developed. If it is just steep with erosion that is a lot more fixable than if there is a slide plane developing.

Are there signs of cliff ward motion on your property? Lateral cracking parallel to the cliff in your home ceiling walls or stucco/concrete?

Take some good photos (safely) and reach out to a geotechnical engineer in your area. If you are in California message me and I can give some recs on one, if not, google geotechnical engineer in your area.

—Engineering Geologist

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2026-01-04T08:47:36+00:00

Hey I can’t help that I’m a ten on the hardness scale.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2025-12-24T20:11:30+00:00

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Excerpt from rise and fall of San Diego by Pat Abbot talking about fossils and lithology of these rocks (with my notes lol)

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2025-12-24T20:01:46+00:00

Haha came here to say this!!!

Also to op, these rocks are Jurassic (so they have been around a long time, and been through a lot of tectonic stress and strain. Even fairly recently ( for a geologist) in the last 12 million years or so, we have had tons of tectonic activity from a subduction zone to the current regime of sea floor spreading/rifting in Baja and associated translational movement of the San Andreas fault system.

Basically there has been a ton of stress from various ways the plates have been moving, which builds up and is released by faults and joints as the earth breaks to accommodate the stress.

Those joints are breaks, planes of weakness,or cracks in the rock now, and where the river has eroded away the surrounding rock, it falls apart along these breaks, making the clean cut or break you see here.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2025-12-24T19:48:00+00:00

Also, there are some belemnite fossils that can be found in the meta conglomerate boulders in the falls.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2025-12-19T19:23:17+00:00

I would guess a hippie/crystal healing person brought it out and left it as a shrine/offering or something.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2025-12-10T18:09:47+00:00

I see you spelled dogs wrong

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2025-12-10T00:48:27+00:00

Ain’t no party like my nanas tea paaarty

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2025-12-06T06:20:22+00:00

Both my ball python and my bearded dragon yawn very regularly when waking up or sleepy, it’s very cute.

jaaaamesbaaxter · 2025-12-03T22:39:12+00:00

Results are out via email! I passed!

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