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I’m on my way home from a conference in San Antonio … i’m sitting in the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport waiting for my connection and … oh crap, look at this: That sucks. Anyway, the conference went well … very busy with talk, poster, and chairing a session but it was fun.

For more on geologists talking about Earth Day, take a gander over at Andrew Alden’s About:Geology, the host of The Accretionary Wedge #8. Geologists normally have a slightly unfriendly attitude towards floral biota. It is, after all, one of the major obstacles normally preventing the viewing of outcrops.

Geologists normally have a slightly unfriendly attitude towards floral biota. It is, after all, one of the major obstacles normally preventing the viewing of outcrops. Geologists are also the people who look for, find and then think up fantastic new ways of mining petrological resources, like petroleum, natural gas and coal.

For the 4th edition of The Accretionary Wedge blog carnival, which is hosted over at goodSchist, we are showing off our favorite pet rocks (or “deskcrops” as coined by Thermochronic). - The first shot below is an “overview” shot of three of my favorite deskcrops (or, more correctly in this case, bookcasecrops).

REMINDER!!  This post copied directly from goodSchist.com — go here to see the post and make any comments to Chris. ~  goodSchist is hosting AW episode 4. This month’s theme is “My Pet Rock”. As was decided by no majority at all on the discussion thread, the 4th installment of The Accretionary Wedge geology blog carnival will be “My Pet Rock”.

As was decided by no majority at all on the discussion thread, the 4th instalment of The Accretionary Wedge geology blog carnival will be “My Pet Rock”. As Ron Schott put it; I think Thermochronic hit on a really interesting theme in writing about rocks in your home/office collection, or Deskcrops as he coined it (http://apparentdip.blogspot.com/search/label/Deskcrops).

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The second edition of the geoscience carnival The Accretionary Wedge, is hosted by Kim up at All of My Faults Are Stress Related. The theme is Earth hazards…or, how our planet might kill you. My contribution to this is not as grand as I’d envisioned…this whole finishing-the-PhD thing is taking a significant bite out of my blogging.

I’m not the kind of person who enjoys writing about myself. It always seems narcissistic to the point of ridicule to concern too many words about yourself to an audience not concerned about anything of the sort.