My face when someone says that.
Rocking Discovery: Boulders rub shoulders during quakes (ht, Julie)
While the others wandered off to see the sites, as geologists are wont to do, Quade climbed under the truck to get out of the beating sunlight. That’s when Quade noticed something very unusual about the half-ton to 8-ton boulders near the truck: they appeared to be rubbed very smooth about their midsections.
Yep yep, we are wont to do that kind of thing, wander off. Wander off to see the … wait, what?! Sites?! Blasphemy!
If you learn anything this Great Earth Science Week Of 2011, it is: We are geologists, not archeologists. We don’t go to sites, go on digs or dig wells. We go in the field, wander off to see the outcrops, break some rock, examine it and collect it as a sample. Some of us also study subsurface data or streams and then drill wells for oil, water and samples, as I would be a bazillionaire if I could simply dig the stuff out of the earth like it’s a freaking Harappan pot. Not to say that shallow aquifers and reservoirs don’t exist, but … we don’t dig at sites, ok?
