Loopysue
Loopysue
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Birdseye Continental - style development thread
Sorry, @Royal Scribe For some reason I missed your earlier comment in the turn of the page.
Thank you :)
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Birdseye Continental - style development thread
I don't think we got as far as fossils. Shame, really. I'm very interested in Palaeontology, and binge watch hours and hours of video documentaries relating to that.
Come to think of it, most of what I know today is generally from watching documentaries and Youtube videos.
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Birdseye Continental - style development thread
Wyvern said...
Just so pleased Joe had leapt in with the geomorphology/geology explanation for you before I was back online to find you'd essentially asked the question you did without asking, Sue, if you follow 😉! Saved me a lot of effort and time certainly, as a once-upon geologist 😊.
It was a very interesting explanation!
As for remembering the names of things in geology (and pretty much every other subject), it's just the jargon, which as with anything, you'll remember if you use it often enough, and have to look it up every time if you don't!
I think I gave up about 100 pages into "Rocks and Minerals The Definitive Visual Guide" by Ronald Louis Bonewitz. It wasn't a course book, but a recommended tool for identification purposes. I still have it on my bookshelf - for identifying things. Maybe it goes into too much detail on the chemistry of each mineral. It all vanishes into a blur in my memory. I love watching Myron Cook videos on Youtube, though. I think process interests me far more than chemistry.
And things take the time to create that they do. Exploring new ways of doing things doesn't mean following a simple, easy, linear route those who haven't done that before can assume sometimes, after all 😁!
Absolutely true! I've shown some of the wacky things I tried along the way, but only about half of it.
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Birdseye Continental - style development thread
Snowflakes have 8 points if I draw them :)
Arctic version of the same symbol.
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Birdseye Continental - style development thread
@Wyvern - I forgot how many points a snowflake had ;)
This particular symbol is a complete ridge, starting with a mountain and extended into a ridge from one of it's 3 buttresses. I think 3 seems to be the magic number of butresses (or maybe in tight folds only 2 buttresses). All the Himalayan watershed lines join at 3-way nodes. 4 would be rare, I guess. Even Mt Everest only seems to have 3 main butresses. There's probably a really simple geomorphological reason for this, but I can't think why it might be.
Incidentally, I rather like the Nepalese(?) name for Everest - Arkhale. I wonder how it's pronounced.
@Royal Scribe - Thank you :)
