I don't know either, but maybe it's just an idiocy of the army, and they think they can mislead the stupid citizen. A position could be a top military secret, or counting to 360 might be too difficult. Just like with the MGRS system (also designed for the military). I've seen so many videos of that, which are often full of errors. The presenter always wears some kind of military-looking outfit. As if that makes it credible.
It should be written with like a dry erase marker or penciled in on a separate navigation log sheet next to a map waypoint; reverse azimuth, time frame of arrival, then the bearing adjustment shown in the video from that waypoint.
This is a great video and explains how to do a cross section fairly well, but it could have been half the length if the narrator stuck to talking about the map instead of adding unnecessary commentary about things he didn't do, lack of info on the map etc. It could definitely use some editing.
As an astronomer azimuth has always been a simple thing, easy to understand. As a hill walker, a bearing also is easy to understand, it's even the same as my marina mates. So who thought this definition of "bearing" was better? It's a mind-cluster fuck right up there with old money and imperial weights and measures. I can't even begin to think why surveyors think N25W is a useful term?
Good video and direction! I was able to actually find a couple good pieces. One has a bit of rock on the outside, I’ve tried a soft wire brush with no luck. Is there a solution I can soak it in that eats the deposited off the limonite that won’t hurt the limonite?
How are the age of the different rock units determined? Geology is a really interesting subject to me, but being a corporate airplane pilot, I didn’t receive any geologic education growing up. Can you recommend any decent text books for learning basic geology?
I am about to start a Geology course at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil, I really hope to be able to study and work in Calgary (the city i want to live in the future) someday. I've always been amazed by Banff and the scenery of Moraine Lake and Lake Louise, and now that I found out about the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Natural History and the Dinosaur Provincial Park I am even more excited
Heard that O&G is setting the ground for geothermal as a larger part of the future energy mix. People have speculated that with some novel drilling techniques like millimeter microwave directed energy drilling we might be able to go really deep into hotter geothermal resources, deep enough that conventional geological rock/resource modelling won't be as important as geophysical data such as seismic reflection, gravity+ magnetic surveys, and magnetotelluric surveys. I don't know if that is really the case, but I'm wondering if a push for geothermal is realized, regardless of how deep the drills go, would it be a boon for geophysicists? I heard the industry ratio is like 10:1 geologists to geophysicists. And would it also ease some of the cyclicality of the industry? Much like how if demand for energy metals are sustained into the future, there would be less boom and bust. So does it makes sense to do Geophysics in undergrad as opposed to Geology undergrad then geophysics masters? The university here, UBC, has a geophysics undergrad program.
It would be helpful to have an appended photo of the quadrant/bearing diagram that we could photocopy onto a plastic sheet and stick on our Bruntons. I have a Brunton that reads in degrees, but would prefer one that reads in quadrants. I want to make an easy graphical overlay. When considering bedding attitudes, N45E is the same as S45W. It's the same planer feature. The dip direction is very important to understanding the feature. N45E, 15SE is an example of a common quadrant with a dip. Instead of Due East, I write N90E. As a geologist, we are generally trying to represent a planer feature, like a bedding plane or joint on a 2D map. It seems to me, that writing that a bed has a strike of S225 is not the correct way to describe it. It would be better to say that it is N45E (same as N45) and then give the dip direction and angle. The strike is a line that would have the same elevation at both ends, therefore it is not pointing to either the NE or the SW. It's level. As that is the case, why use bearing degrees unless you are referring to the plunge of a feature?
I've just recently had to learn this recently. I've had to attach 4 different schemes to one location and the client is wanting 4 .kmz files to compare the 4. I am confused as to what "Temporary Places" mean. Everytime i save a .kmz file, there is always one or two other files that show up...in other words, i can't get one image per .kmz file. is there an answer to tho this? or Google Earth can't handle multiple images on one location. Thank you
I'm very intrigued by this particular spot. Specifically because I'm studying geology to go into paleontology. We have many similar places all over Utah, so it's only crucial that I put this place on my bucket list.
Because at the time, the railroad was a big business, and that was the perfect town for the location. Or so they thought apparently. We see now today that that is indeed not the case.
I don't have any special feelings or fascination for rocks, do you really need to have them if you want to be a geologist? Or is it something that develops as you get into it? I think I want to do geology because of things like travelling to remote areas to find and discover something, is that enough?
No. I just mean that in general Geology is studying rocks and rock-related topics. The passion can definitely be having something that gets you out of an office, etc. But with that, you'll need to make sure you target your career path in that direction because a lot of Geologists end up in offices.
