Buzz lightyear and the JREF Challenge

[buzz lightyear]

Here's one of the simpler screwed up bits of Scottish geology. Seerpents so powerful they churned up stone whilst making a comfy hollow to sleep in?

The vertical strata looks like tilted sediments, so does the horizontal to some degree.

A comfy sleeping hole looks more like this.

 

[Mashuna]

Just a quick question. You've addressed your challenge to Tricky. Does he know about this thread? I mean, have you sent him a PM?

 

[OMGturt1es]

I respectfully submit that any geologist worth their salt would never have passed out from drinking.

Are you suggesting that geologists should be very good drinkers, or not be drinkers at all?

 

[OMGturt1es]

[qimg]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Siccar_Point.jpg[/qimg]

Here's one of the simpler screwed up bits of Scottish geology. Seerpents so powerful they churned up stone whilst making a comfy hollow to sleep in?

The vertical strata looks like tilted sediments, so does the horizontal to some degree.

From the picture alone, I'd say thrust faulting.

A comfy sleeping hole looks more like this.

[qimg]http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/imagehosting/thum_143234860c8f1d7aff.jpg[/qimg]

Why do you think that's a "comfy sleeping hole"? I don't understand.

BTW, in the future, you should always put something in your pictures for scale. Also, try to get some serious close up photos of the grains/crystals that form the rock. Pictures like these are interesting, but worthless.

 

[Naughtyhippo]

Are you suggesting that geologists should be very good drinkers, or not be drinkers at all?

Geologists should be able to carouse the naight away and then spring fresh from their beds in the morning to ascend tall, boggy, slippery and treacherous mountains in wellies; pausing only to puff on an upside down pipe (because of the rain) and to point out an interesting example of sheath folding in an outcrop. They should be majestic. Like lions!

From the picture alone, I'd say thrust faulting.

'Tis Hutton's unconformity, where he realised the earth was much older than realised, that prompted..yada, yada, yada....

 

[OMGturt1es]

Geologists should be able to carouse the naight away and then spring fresh from their beds in the morning to ascend tall, boggy, slippery and treacherous mountains in wellies; pausing only to puff on an upside down pipe (because of the rain) and to point out an interesting example of sheath folding in an outcrop. They should be majestic. Like lions!

Answer accepted, though I'd suspect the upside down pipe isn't necessary. Clipboards or field books can block rain just fine.

'Tis Hutton's unconformity, where he realised the earth was much older than realised, that prompted..yada, yada, yada....

I'd actually never seen a picture of that before. Very cool. Thanks.

 

[Dancing David]

Nah, Little 10 Toes, not trying to show proof of my "paranormal theory".

It's just me stirring good old Tricky.
I love the way he stutters when it all gets too much for him.

Occasionally stuffy old geologists can do with a prod. Its the only way to tell if they are dead or merely asleep.

Oh, so you were trying to be an ass, should have figured but now you confirm it. Thanks.

 

[Dancing David]

The vertical strata looks like tilted sediments, so does the horizontal to some degree.

A comfy sleeping hole looks more like this.

[qimg]http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/imagehosting/thum_143234860c8f1d7aff.jpg[/qimg]

Oh sheesh, that is a common river eroision pattern, does Loki make earthquakes?

 

[Piscivore]

Gasoline, meet fire.

 

[Hokulele]

Pisci, you need to get a hobby.

 

[sol invictus]

Pretty simple paranormal claim, if you want to call it that...areas of the earths surface, referred to as sandstone, are the byproduct of an organism's life cycle... the landforms of this continent where shaped by a giant serpent.

The above pics are examples of these areas.

I love this forum....

I can't decide if this one is better than the theory about Japan running out of souls or not. I think we should hold a poll on most entertaining woo thread.

 

[Mashuna]

He's got a hobby, that's the problem.

 

[Piscivore]

Pisci, you need to get a hobby.

Are you telling me that I paid $50 for dues to that guy behind the laudromat to join the North American Association of Cockrock Watchers and it's not even a real hobby?

 

[I Ratant]

I must have missed the part of your post where you actually made a paranormal claim.

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"midwinter dragon hunt"..
Probably having to do with the lack of pink elephants in Scotland, in the winter time.

 

[Dancing David]

I thought it was a coprolite.

 

[Tricky]

I'm a little busy right now, Buzz. I wouldn't be able to tell much from those photos without a good deal more evidence, but there is nothing in them that I can see that looks like it is result of anything other than natural processes.

If you want to discuss geology, then I recommend that you first take a couple of geology courses. I don't mind explaining things to children, but not to contentious adults who insist that their delusions are true.

At least, not right now. We're drilling a very important well right now. If it works, we'll be able to tap some of the Dragon Fire that has been trapped in the subsurface.

 

[buzz lightyear]

I'm a little busy right now, Buzz. I wouldn't be able to tell much from those photos without a good deal more evidence, but there is nothing in them that I can see that looks like it is result of anything other than natural processes.

If you want to discuss geology, then I recommend that you first take a couple of geology courses. I don't mind explaining things to children, but not to contentious adults who insist that their delusions are true.

Main Entry: con·ten·tious Pronunciation: \kən-ˈten(t)-shəs\ Function: adjective Date: 15th century 1 : likely to cause contention <a contentious argument> 2 : exhibiting an often perverse and wearisome tendency to quarrels and disputes <a man of a most contentious nature> synonyms see belligerent

— con·ten·tious·ly adverb
— con·ten·tious·ness noun

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After all we have been through...........contentious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am hurt, truly hurt

 

[fishbob]

Are you suggesting that geologists should be very good drinkers, or not be drinkers at all?

They are absolutely not 'not drinkers at all'.

 

[fishbob]

[qimg]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Siccar_Point.jpg[/qimg]

Here's one of the simpler screwed up bits of Scottish geology. Seerpents so powerful they churned up stone whilst making a comfy hollow to sleep in?

Unconformity. Or is it disconformity? Or nonconformity?

Anyway, the lower layers were tipped, eroded, submerged, then the upper layers were deposited, then the whole mess was tipped some more, then eroded again, then mooned over by loonies.

Nincompoopity !!!! Thats it !!!

 

[sphenisc]

Hutton's Unconformity

http://www.snh.org.uk/publications/on-line/geology/elothian_borders/hutton.asp