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Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:53 pm to Pectus
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Go to a school with strong geophysics department in Texas.
I just wanted to feel special in the geology thread too. I'm looking at Mines here in the fall.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:54 pm to MountainTiger
How do the deep formations that deep commercial/industrial wastewater injection wells have room to accept the volumes of waste water that they do? Doesn't the pressure on those deeper formations crush them airtight? How is there empty space available?
Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:54 pm to fr33manator
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salt and Halite?
salt is halite
Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:55 pm to fr33manator
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Where are the nearest caves?
There's a giant salt dome under Avery Island. Tabasco owns and mines it.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:56 pm to Pectus
quote:have you Joxied today? Either the gmt or lunch thread(s)?
Pectus
Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:57 pm to Dorothy
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What kinds of classes should I encourage him to take before college? Obviously science, but anything else?
In boy scouts there are a few merit badges geared towards natural sciences.
I'd get him enrolled in a camp program at a nature center.
Some nature centers let people volunteer.
In school take earth science, physical science, biology, chemistry and physics. If he performs well, he's on his way.
Just get him a field guide to rocks, fossils, and minerals, and he'll have a field day. You can also get a cheap and used college text on Physical or Historical Geology.
BR's best rocks may just be on campus in cabinets...unfortunately. Would you believe that there is coal on the side of I-49 just passed Alexandria though? With that, let him see the hard blocks of loess at Tunica where you are.
The only geology things like that are booths that are opened up for a few hours on certain celebration days. I do know a geology club likes to go to schools and talk about this stuff for teachers that want that in their curriculum.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:58 pm to fr33manator
quote:JMCS was just posting earlier, can't be too far.... I mean you saw the video of the cave right?
Where are the nearest caves?
Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:59 pm to Asharad
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How do I get rock hard abs?
You know, there's a few rocks out there you can scratch with your fingernail, so I'd be careful of waving around comparisons like that!
Posted on 7/10/14 at 3:59 pm to Asharad
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How do I get rock hard abs?
Posted on 7/10/14 at 4:00 pm to Pectus
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Thank the jewelry companies of the early 1900s
Do you have a connection that can dig me up a cheap one?
Posted on 7/10/14 at 4:01 pm to Pectus
I went on a cave tour in Arkansas and the tour guide said the cave was formed 10,000 years ago when I asked how old a structure was. So my question is. Was this tour guide an idiot?
Posted on 7/10/14 at 4:02 pm to Asharad
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Real question. How do salt domes form? Where did all that salt come from?
The salt in salt domes comes from old salt deposits. For the Gulf of Mexico coast, our salt comes from long long ago in the Jurassic when the Gulf was just forming. It was very shallow and a lot of the water evaporated making it super salty. Over the years salt would be preserved in the rocks that make up the bedrock below the coast.
Salt is like a slow moving fluid under intense pressure...also add a little water and it becomes rather mobile. Salt domes form from salt squeezing out of places under high pressure and accumulating in a low pressure area.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 4:02 pm to Dorothy
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So here are my Q's:
What kinds of classes should I encourage him to take before college? Obviously science, but anything else?
Any good books for kids you can recommend?
What are the best places to take him around BR to look for rocks?
Do you know if LSU or anywhere else offers a geology camp for kids?
get him interested in beer, cooking and eating chilli,and taking pictures with beer cans or rock hammers for scale.
teach him to hate math and only do the bear minmum to get a C.
teach him to be egotistical and it that is OK to wear flip-flops or boots anywhere.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 4:04 pm to fr33manator
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What's the difference between salt and Halite?
Where are the nearest caves?
Salt is the common name of the rock-forming mineral halite.
The nearest caves are probably in Florida and Arkansas.
This post was edited on 7/10/14 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 7/10/14 at 4:05 pm to Simpkjo
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I went on a cave tour
I saw The Descent. F that.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 4:05 pm to ChallboiMatt
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I just wanted to feel special in the geology thread too. I'm looking at Mines here in the fall.
Which state, unless you mean THE mines (SD)
Posted on 7/10/14 at 4:06 pm to Pectus
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Which state, unless you mean THE mines (SD
Colorado School of Mines
Posted on 7/10/14 at 4:08 pm to ColoradoAg03
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How do the deep formations that deep commercial/industrial wastewater injection wells have room to accept the volumes of waste water that they do? Doesn't the pressure on those deeper formations crush them airtight? How is there empty space available?
Well it could be a few things:
if you can dissolve the rock you pump into, that gives you space
if the rock is permeable, that gives you space
if the rock is fractured or you can fracture the rock, then the water can move along those openings
groundwater moves through rocks and water is pumped in sometimes to slow overpumping...that happens over relatively short time periods, so these layers are permeable.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 4:09 pm to Pectus
Serious question
There is a clear, almost glass like rock found in the plains. Ive seen it in sheet form in northern Oklahoma. Many settlers used it for windows in their homes.
What is it called and how is it formed?
There is a clear, almost glass like rock found in the plains. Ive seen it in sheet form in northern Oklahoma. Many settlers used it for windows in their homes.
What is it called and how is it formed?
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