Date:         Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:48:24 -0800
Reply-To:     Mark Hineline <hineline@HELIX.UCSD.EDU>
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From:         Mark Hineline <hineline@HELIX.UCSD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: vanagon Digest - 28 Nov 2009 to 29 Nov 2009 - Special issue
              (#2009-1032)
Comments: To: craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
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As a historian of the earth sciences and a fellow traveler, let's just
say that it depends on what kind of geology you do. Compared to where
I live (a few hundred yards from the Rose Canyon fault, capable of
generating a 7+ magnitude earthquake right under I-5 at any time),
Nebraska is structurally and tectonically dullsville. Apologies to
those who live on the stable craton.

Almost any part of the country is more interesting. Even Kansas has
the chalk hills.

Mark


On Nov 29, 2009, at 2:27 PM, craig cowan wrote:

> Does it make me a bad student to mention that I am becoming a
> Geologist/Environmental Scientist?
> Even with several years of intense Geology/Geography courses under
> my belt,
> Nebraska (viewed from the road) bored me.
>
> Though I do agree that once you become excited by rocks, you are
> easily
> surrounded by happyness. It's also a wildly cheap thrill.
>
> -Craig Cowan
> '85GL Turned WESTY
> BOSTIG in the back
> Current 'Junior' of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
> Student Of Geography,Geology, and The Environment, minoring in
> Jewelry.
>