Thanks, Chris.

I had the pleasure of mapping with Tom Dibblee many years ago. He was amazing...and impressed when I found some igneous rock with almost no quartz. He had made the same observation about this specific type--but now I even forget what it was. Found up in the Santa Ynez Mountains above SB, full of plag and mica...the Santa something formation from miles away. Anyway...Dibblee and Helmut Ehrenspeck were amazing field geologists.

I fought through math classes. 3 quarters of Calculus, plus 2 of geophysics, 3 of chemistry and 3 quarters of physics. EGAD...I didn't understand half of it. Seemed that all we did was fiddle with equations. But we'd spend weekends in the field, and that's where the real payoff came!

But I also worked doing oil company work from 2d seismics, and you're right about being able to interpret them. Toss those seismic with a few well logs, and we geologists can imagine 70 million year old landscapes! I remember a Cretaceous stream system in the Altiplano of Colombia that we mapped---I could just SEE the thing.

I used to go to those Coastal Geologic Society meetings many years ago. Once all of the women from SB City College dressed up in really nice gowns to attend, just for fun. I used to put lipstick on using the mirror in my Brunton just to annoy some of the more sexist men. Some nice elderly man came once to accuse us of trying to frighten people to death with our talk of a quake on the Red Mountain Fault...

Ah, but I wax nostalgic here!