tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post6287067740072917409..comments2023-10-10T05:07:13.577-07:00Comments on En Tequila Es Verdad: The Seduction of SubductionDana Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890312745525306991noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-24663949599032085102011-06-27T11:54:35.988-07:002011-06-27T11:54:35.988-07:00Wow, you are a great writer! You're so good a...Wow, you are a great writer! You're so good at communicating the excitement you feel to the reader! Excellent blog!schmieltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-4211393390974592382011-06-27T10:17:39.025-07:002011-06-27T10:17:39.025-07:00Many years ago a USGS geologist wrote a paper spec...Many years ago a USGS geologist wrote a paper speculating on the economic value added to California by the San Andreas Fault. Something like 5 billion per year or something. Crazy big number. The mountains that are created, the businesses dealing with mineral extraction or emergency supplies, all kinds of stuff.<br /><br />Now, let's talk about how much economic value a subduction zone creates? Wow. Tourism, mineral extraction, lumber, much more than the SA Fault, don't you think, when you include ALL of the subduction zones world wide?<br /><br />Fun to think about. Thanks for the post.socalmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-61109836359234536522011-06-26T12:47:03.615-07:002011-06-26T12:47:03.615-07:00Thanks for the info on phyllite! It was new to me....Thanks for the info on phyllite! It was new to me. Would a bit more squeezing make it schist? Just wondering.Shane Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05963201527122796080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-62732860740929570002011-06-25T20:56:07.984-07:002011-06-25T20:56:07.984-07:00Just bookmarked your blog. Great descriptions of ...Just bookmarked your blog. Great descriptions of both the rocks and your interest in them! If I had it to do all over again, I'd be a linguist instead, but if I had to do over TWICE, I'd be a geologist! <br /><br />BraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-2768665350719999602011-06-25T15:42:10.366-07:002011-06-25T15:42:10.366-07:00As a long-time Washingtonian, may I recommend two ...As a long-time Washingtonian, may I recommend two books by David AltI found fascinating?<br /><br /> <i>Northwest Exposures: A Geologic Study of the Northwest</i> and<br /><br /><i>Roadside Geology of Washington</i><br /><br />Love the Gold Bar area photo.<br /><br />NickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-40503877661813739082011-06-25T14:35:57.552-07:002011-06-25T14:35:57.552-07:00A migmatite?
love them!A migmatite?<br />love them!christian rengglinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-64174164995146046932011-06-25T12:05:28.977-07:002011-06-25T12:05:28.977-07:00"It doesn't look that gneiss. In fact it ...<i>"It doesn't look that gneiss. In fact it kind of looks like the schist."</i><br /><br />Oh man, I'm at a loess for words. What are you trying to talus?<br /><br />I know that sounds like a caliche, but what you said could mean a mélange of things.P Smithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-438370983521210742011-06-25T12:03:15.404-07:002011-06-25T12:03:15.404-07:00http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmontjr/5127712134/
...http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmontjr/5127712134/<br /><br />We stayed in East Wenatchee on a visit to Washington last year. Our host told me that the mountains in the background of the linked picture are on the Juan de Fuca, while the nearer ones are on the NA plate. I gather from this post that he is correct?<br />I followed a link from PZ Meyer's place, and I'm glad that I did. I've always loved rocks.George Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07927158641091699429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-14310168734760371432011-06-25T11:05:51.412-07:002011-06-25T11:05:51.412-07:00Where the Salmonberry Grow - Cascadia, A Place Apa...Where the Salmonberry Grow - <i>Cascadia</i>, A Place Apart. Neither of the Pacific nor the "North American". Built upon the detris, the <i>rubble</i> if you will, of the collision of the two. Someone should write a book about that.<br /><br />Oh wait, I <i>am</i>.<br /><br />Very nicely done.Ten Bearshttp://homelessonthehighdesert.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-70943024607249613592011-06-25T09:11:15.023-07:002011-06-25T09:11:15.023-07:00It doesn't look that gneiss. In fact it kind o...It doesn't look that gneiss. In fact it kind of looks like the schist.A Bearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-83234472548458422722011-06-23T14:59:45.769-07:002011-06-23T14:59:45.769-07:00I love the way you right. And that gneiss is, well...I love the way you right. And that gneiss is, well, really gneiss.Anne Jeffersonhttp://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-68467399554592753932011-06-23T12:08:12.010-07:002011-06-23T12:08:12.010-07:00Mmmm, nice photos. It's a shame it's so h...Mmmm, nice photos. It's a shame it's so hard to capture phyllitic texture with a camera.<br /><br />On a drive through the Sierras on a lesser-used, two-lane road, I once insisted that my husband stop because there was this wonderful outcrop of phyllite. He found a spot to pull over, and I ran off to the outcrop and got some samples. Meanwhile, right where he stopped the car, was a big quartz vein, and a gold-mining barge in the creek below the road.<br /><br />He's still puzzled that I could get so excited over some shiny shale and be indifferent toward a probable gold! bearing! quartz! vein!!!<br /><br />Oh, well...Karennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-82458088522437639432011-06-23T00:50:04.286-07:002011-06-23T00:50:04.286-07:00wow, great eye candy *and* descriptions dana. you...wow, great eye candy *and* descriptions dana. you have taught me enough that i'm starting to recognize some formations.. like that pillow basaltsSuzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10304929560878904921noreply@blogger.com