This is the 15th year of continuous daily publication for 365Caws. All things considered, it's likely it will be the last year as it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to find interesting material. However, I hope that I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world with my natural history posts, or encouraged a novice weaver or needleworker. If so, I've done what I set out to do.
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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