365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Geology Rocks!
Day 244: It's June and time for interpretive training! Today's subject was the geology of Mount Rainier, and while I think geology rocks, eight and a half hours is a long time to sit in a chair listening to speakers, even excellent ones like Tom Sisson, Carolyn Driedger and Paul Kennard. I learned a lot, and took advantage of lunch break to grab a mineral specimen from home for "show-and-tell" with the professionals. I'm none the wiser for having taken it back for analysis, but Tom Sisson took a sample of the green radiating crystals which he's promised to subject to tests in order to make an identification. I'm looking forward to finally having a name to put on a specimen I've carted around for more than thirty years!
Labels:
geology,
interpretive training,
mineral specimen
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