wanted: visitors to play tourist with

[kareina]

Anyone want to come visit Tassie and see the mountains in the western, metamorphic, belt of the state? Say in September or October (ish)?

When I was last out collecting samples we took a few oriented mylonites to determine the sense of displacement on them. While I'm reasonably happy that my field notes recorded things accurately, the results once we cut them open and looked at them in thin section were slightly surprising for one of them. Therefore I should head back out there and re-measure the outcrop. But if I'm going to do a three hour drive to take one measurement, it would be nice to have a visitor along, to show them some of the other sights in Tassie and make a full adventure of it.

Since it will be necessary to cross the river, the trip is best done when it hasn't rained in a while, so certainly not before September, at the earliest, but not too late either, as once the thesis is submitted there will be no point in re-measuring anything...

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[xrian.livejournal.com]

Well, darn. If only flying halfway around the globe wasn't so expensive......

I'd love to hang out with a geologist in tourist territory. I did a geology minor in college. It's actually rather annoyng, because I know enough to be bored stiff by most lay-oriented geology books ("sedimentary rocks are formed by....") but not enough to get much out of the primary literature. These days I read a lot of geology blogs....