Geologist Problems

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Denki in Chapter 169

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LEPIDOLITE (Lithium Potassium Silicate) crystals from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Lavender micaceous plates of lepidolite.

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Things I love: my rock collection

Things I hate when I’m moving: my rock collection

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What I feel like after staring down a microscope for hours...

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Using your rock hammer to hang a painting because you cant find a real hammer anywhere.

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BONUS: when said tour guide pulls the whole "suspended rock" routine but tells everyone not to worry about it falling because GEOGRAPHERS have checked it out.

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Resisting every urge in your body not to interrupt and correct the tour guide at the park on their dates or terminology every 10mins.

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When someone comes back from a vacation and tells you all about how much they know you would have loved all the "GEOGRAPHICAL" features.

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A long day's work collecting data with your Brunton. Get home, notice it was set to the wrong declination the whole time.

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Stop on the side of the highway to look at an outcrop... Cop gives you a ticket.

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"It's just a rock" is never something acceptable to hear.

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Checking bedrock/surficial maps before you go somewhere new just so you can feel knowledgable about the local geology when you are there.

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While visiting a historical monument, more concerned about identifying the rock type that it is constructed from than the monument itself.

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Driving everyone crazy on the trip because you can see karst topography from your window seat in the airplane, and they just dont understand.

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When you're on a road trip and all you wish you could do is have the bus pull over so you can collect a sample from that amazing outcrop