CompuServe Messages

Hi, Nathan– Maybe the loose boulders are weathered enough that the andesite falls apart so "accomodatingly", but I hope you were not talking about the solid rock of the roadcut I was beating on. I would not want to meet anything less accomodating… There were more weathered sections where I could knock off a stone or two with every hammer blow, but the place where I found the seam of calcite/aragonite and chalcedony/opal was quite refractory, and I spent a long time on the ferrierite pocket as well. It would have been somewhat better with a 3-pound hammer, but I remember almost as much work getting out some calcite further down the Kanan Road on an earlier occasion with that larger hammer. Why settle for a trinocular microscope? With four, you could take stereo picture pairs while watching the specimen. Get a laptop PC with two high-res video ports, a pair of displays that allow the screen to be projected by an overhead, set up a visual baffle between the projection destinations… Why is my Christmas list always so hard to lift? –Doug