And here’s why we never see them from the road…they are often vegetated and lower lying…though some are better developed and obvious.

Is it just a strange coincidence that the name of the road where these “Biscuit Scablands” features are located is called “Bakeoven Road”?

Not sure which is crazier…this loop or the one below Shaniko…but if you have a few hours, they can both be done in the same day.

Postage stamp tight it is.

Give me land, lots of land…

Meanwhile…Camelia don’t bow to the calendar.

#MakeBetterChoices

Step away from the pots!

Are you in northern hemisphere?

“We had to despand it, before we could respand it…”

…and infrastructure underfunded and begging for funding whether the economy is booming or suffering.

Nobody minds getting some of their taxes back…but at what cost to Oregonians and our long term prosperity?

#MakeAmericaGrovelAgain

No offense to the organizers…but could have had 32 competing ore types without batting an eye. Wish we could have nominated some additional for more variety and just…more.

There are only so many metals…but even if staying in metals, there are dozens of emplacement/enrichment styles in ore genesis.

The Snivellus Snape of presidents.

One fun example was using a settling tube to measure sand grain size.

As long as calibration was done well…and the apparatus functioning well…and protocols followed…..

Surprisingly accurate results in a fraction of the time.

Contrasting with INAA that took a week sitting by an ancient computer!

Still, the insights gained from laboratory experimentation are useful in understanding the causalities and driving forces.

We may not be able to predict with certainty how much sediment is being transported by longshore currents, but we know what the driving forces are…and that’s at least useful.

…which was largely built on the back of laboratory experimentation and measurements in what can only be described as homogenous in the extreme. Nowhere on the planet do such conditions actually exist.

Aside from scalar differences between laboratory and real world….it the complete and overwhelming simplification that makes most models fail.

I remember vividly a professor emphasizing what the core assumptions built into groundwater flow equations meant to real world hydrogeology…

🎶Memories….Like the woven rope cores of my mind.🎵

That’s just WEIRd.

Yes, but which “one”?

“Prices are too high, so…We must raise the inflation before we can lower the inflation.”