tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post114307218252910204..comments2023-06-02T17:54:44.641+02:00Comments on Connaissances: TracksJonathan Wonhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-1143228507218554532006-03-24T20:28:00.000+01:002006-03-24T20:28:00.000+01:00Thank you very much for your comments:Andrea: CSI....Thank you very much for your comments:<BR/><BR/>Andrea: CSI... Crime Scene Investigation, Right? The celebrated TV series...<BR/><BR/>No, I'm not exactly a criminal investigator. You mean like a forensic dirt dude, right?<BR/><BR/>Forensic dirt dude might be okay...<BR/><BR/>Clare: Glad you found this of interest. There are lots of other geological articles if you look in the index at top right.<BR/><BR/>If you go to Southport you are unlikely to see the footprints. They are preserved in soft clay and disappear as soon as they are exposed. However, if you went after a storm, you might stand a chance of seeing some fresh ones appearing. All kinds of footprints have been found including bison-type animals. There are also beds of trees that have fallen in high winds. The direction in which they fell indicates the prevailing wind direction at the time.<BR/><BR/>Lesley - Yes, that's an interesting subject. thanks for mentioning it. I saw you were interested in Kenneth White on your blog. I have never read him but know he has an interest in the earth: "geopoetries" is it he calls it? I guess he's referring to Andre Breton's 'Magnetic Fields'? That I haven't read either but I noticed it for future investigation. Rocks of course take on the earth's magnetic field when they are deposited. Every ferrous rock is like a little magnet which 'remembers' which direction was north when it hardened. Thus there is a whole subarea of geology called 'palaeomagnetism' in which the past wandering of magnetic north and any magnetic reversals (north pole swapping for the south pole) is studied. I don't think anyone really knows why the poles swap over every so often. One of those 'big mysteries'.<BR/><BR/>It wouldn't be very convenient if you were out orienteering at the time, would it?Jonathan Wonhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-1143216707552568972006-03-24T17:11:00.000+01:002006-03-24T17:11:00.000+01:00Oops, sorry about that intrusive apostrophe in "it...Oops, sorry about that intrusive apostrophe in "it's".Lesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13498909370147354617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-1143204081565328992006-03-24T13:41:00.000+01:002006-03-24T13:41:00.000+01:00On the subject of geology and poetry (sort of): I'...On the subject of geology and poetry (sort of): I'm reading Kenneth White's "Across the Territories" at the moment in which he talks about the earth's magnetic field and it's use as an analogy by the Surrealists. He ends by asking if it might not be possible to "make of existence a field of poetic density?".Lesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13498909370147354617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-1143121043770893922006-03-23T14:37:00.000+01:002006-03-23T14:37:00.000+01:00Your descriptions on how you see the world as a ge...Your descriptions on how you see the world as a geologist are fascinating. I only studied geology for a year at university, but even so I think some of those feelings got into my blood too. That thinking back, and the use of imagination - I often think that geologists share something in this respect with archeologists. Both go so far back that it is impossible to know anything for sure so you just imagine. <BR/><BR/>I was wondering about the footprint at the top of your blog - although I live fairly close to Southport I have never been there, but now am determined to go before they disappear. They are quite temporary, I understand, the sea constantly washing the mud away to reveal more...and once again the imagination comes into play - imagining all those prehistoric people walking along the shores. They didn't realise it then but they were walking into the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-1143096660880619332006-03-23T07:51:00.000+01:002006-03-23T07:51:00.000+01:00so you are like a dirt CSI dude.cool. maybe you ca...so you are like a dirt CSI dude.<BR/>cool. maybe you can get a spot in the show.Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16551607753054004591noreply@blogger.com