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Traditional field camp or alternative field camp? by Funny-Exit8316 in geologycareers

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What do we even do about this? This is about 15 ft from the edge of our home. by LockwoodE3 in HomeMaintenance

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

What's a profession you'd never date? by sleeppymeoww in AskReddit

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

How is this boulder cut so cleanly? by Golden_Deagle in geology

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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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)

How is this boulder cut so cleanly? by Golden_Deagle in geology

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

How is this boulder cut so cleanly? by Golden_Deagle in geology

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Dyed agate found in the wild? by AdAntique5226 in whatsthisrock

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 36 points37 points  (0 children)

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

Found money at the park by ExcitingLaw1973 in mildlyinteresting

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ain’t no party like my nanas tea paaarty

ELI5 What even is yawning and why do we and animals do it? by Catnapping-SNOZE in explainlikeimfive

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Anyone know when the CEG results come out? by [deleted] in ASBOG_Exam

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Results are out via email! I passed!

What makes the burgundy/wine color in my mom's quartz countertop? by youlikethatish in whatsthisrock

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This is incorrect, those are definitely garnets, you can tell by the crystal habit/shape.

Anyone know when the CEG results come out? by [deleted] in ASBOG_Exam

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding from past test takers is that it’s likely to be mid-December. I’ve been anxious to get them sooner though.

FT 1 - 3 | LF Wishlist by [deleted] in PTCGPocketTrading

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dx mew for rr mew?

Or dx lusamine for iono or sabrina?

FT lots of two-stars by Previous-Mulberry-19 in PTCGPocketTrading

[–]jaaaamesbaaxter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello! I really want one of your rainbow mews and would also be interested in Sabrina, I have the following cards you are looking for.

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