User talk:Yorrike

Thanks
Thanks for your help. As to the RfC comment: I wasn't attacking your blog, simply trying to be polite/neutral/humorous. You must have checked Wiki at a bad time: there are many geologists here, unfortunately there was a single user creating many accounts to force an idiotic and unsupported theory with lots of wikilawyering. Thanks for your help, and I hope you're not scarred for life over using Wikipedia; myself and others work pretty hard to add information and keep this thing from happening. Awickert (talk) 21:10, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * PS - after the sock was kind enough to link it, I spent a while surfing your blogs - thanks for the fun writing; I feel tempted to comment with my "top 10" things... Awickert (talk) 21:14, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Glad your faith is restored. Drop a note if you ever want collaboration when editing an article. I'll leave you my top 10 list (when I think of it) here; I can't resist and it's been rattling around in the back of my brain all afternoon. I think I've got 4-5 for sure by now. Awickert (talk) 10:17, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

10 things a geologist should know
Awickert (talk) 18:44, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) How to identify rocks and minerals, generally well, in outcrop, hand sample, and microscope
 * 2) How to manipulate the stress and strain tensors for a variety of rheologies (because the Earth is messy), and to relate this to faults, folding, seismic waves, and flow, on and within the Earth
 * 3) How to make precise observations and take detailed, useful notes, and how to use these observations to construct sound theories about how things on the Earth generally work.
 * 4) How to locate and orient themselves in the field, with map and compass, or without, during both day and night
 * 5) Relative dating and absolute dating: how they work.
 * 6) The interior structure of the Earth: plate tectonics, mantle convection, geodynamo.
 * 7) How sediments are transported and the geologic record is formed.
 * 8) Enough about natural hazards and climate change to be useful to others who have questions about such issues
 * 9) How to use all details inside a rock (bedding, fossils, foliation, metamorphic phase transitions, sedimentary structures, igneous textures, bulk mineralogy, etc.) to create a combined picture of how that rock was formed and what it says about geological history.
 * 10) A sense of humility that even the best-sounding theory can be utterly destroyed by empirical evidence.