/sci/ - Science & Math

it's not a textbook per se, but How to Build a Habitable Planet by Langmuir and Broecker is a really good intro.
t. paleofag

>claims to be a geophysicist
>actually spends time outdoors in the company of actual rocks
almost had me fooled :^)

TAKE
GEOLOGY
101
FAGGOT

Nigga you dont even know your sedimentary from your igneous

Rocky meteors are made of whatever kind of minerals that are present in the meteor. They are all igneous though. So basically what >>9362583 said

>>9181914
>>9181996
honestly there needs to be some kind of regulatory scheme to make operators do a proper survey of the area before they start fracking to make sure the reservoir doesn't communicate with groundwater or fault zones. do that and everything's good; fracking = cheap natgas = lower demand for coal = cleaner air

unfortunately the anti-intellectual roody-poos currently in charge are trying to prop up coal and doing everything they can to make sure that petroleum interests don't get their feelings hurt by actually having to do their due diligence.

>>8690521
micropaleo is coming back into vogue for petroleum. enough operators have gotten burned by overreliance on seismic and well logs (misinterpret the horizons, drill two hundred feet too far, end up in the wrong strata and have a very expensive dry hole to show for it) that they're swinging back towards biostratigraphy as a way of mapping the units in a well.
if you're not doing micropaleo, your only real options are in academia, and there's a decent market (so I hear) for those kinds of positions. the caveat is that if you can't find a paleo position, you're likely to end up teaching anatomy (if vert) or sedimentology (if invert).

>>8659310
if you want to tell what kind of graptolite you're looking at, you need a microscope. they're small enough, and the diagnostic features between species even smaller, that a hand lens won't do it. and because they're pelagic they're not facies-controlled, so they're good indicators for Paleozoic biostratigraphy, which really requires that you know what graptolite you're looking at rather than just "hurr it's a graptolite".
Get off my dick, you geophysicist.

>>8580197
>Geophysicist
>numerical simulations
>modelise
LOL

>geophysics
sup, paleofag here

>>8165629
Huddle either under sturdy furniture or inside a door jamb until it is over.

paleo
>is this a dinosaur egg?
no ma'am, it's an iron concretion
>you didn't even look at it!
trust me, I don't have to

hell, geoscience in general
>is this a meteorite?
no, it's probably a chunk of slag
>you didn't even look at it!
look m8, it is NEVER actually a meteorite
>here, look at it anyway!
...it's exactly what I said it was

>>8125071
that is indeed pretty cool
are you talking about paint infused with ceramic particles? or is it more complicated...?

>>7933733
>You become really jaded and develop a drinking problem
I thought we just drink because we like drinking.

>>7933817
you get some pretty exotic temperature and pressure conditions, and you can't measure directly most of the time so you're stuck approximating what's actually going on. it doesn't have all the horrible rearrangements that orgo does, but it's pretty tricky stuff.

>>7935420
you need to into a rigorous evolution and ecology background. paleo gets lumped in with geo, but it's about 60% bio.

>>7935683
piss off. pic related fgt

>>7342829
>geophysicist detected
enjoy your endless physics simulations with zero actual fieldwork, fag