Geologists....What are they good for??

[jtrotta]

Ross

you said you learned your rocks in the "hard rock" COUNTRY of New England, just want to clarify, if that's where I live :?: The part I need ta know is; Country of New England - please be gentle, I just want to make sure which Country it is, that I'm in 8O

we had some rumblings here a couple of weeks back that actually streched from upstate New York to the coast; now I know I felt the Snowglobe move, but a new country - wow :lol: won't travel to far until I'm sure of where I yam. :lol:

8)

 

[Dee Dee]

Ross,
Let me know the specifics as to when and where the next association meeting is and I'll see what I can do. Is this an appraisers association or geology group?
I kinda figured that it wasn't any life form (tree or critter) being attached to granite, much more likely to see that with sandstone, but that's exactly what it looks like. :?: It's quite an oddity. I have it in my front yard and often find myself pondering what on earth could be. Quite a conversation piece, really.

 

[Ross (CO)]

Dee Dee,
It is meeting of the local assoc. of appraisers and you will get 2 hours of Cont. Educ. credit for your license cycle. I do not yet know who our speaker(s) is but you could check in with <carea.net>.

jtrotta,

The reference to hard rock is general term of type of geologic setting. You got plenty of "hard rock" in Connecticut and the metamorphics and the igneous ones. If you were in Florida, Mississippi or Texas you might for the most part be in soft rock "country. No reason to imply being in another nation ! If you were in the Napa Valley of CA they might say you are in wine country. Get the point ? No biggie.

 

[Jim McGrath]

Sounds good to me.

I once asked my geo professor "what happens to geologist who work for oil companies, and millions of dollars later their drilling results in nothing more than a dry hole ?" His response - "they become professors".

Joe, Geologists who work for oil companies are Geophysicists. I only know because my brother-in-law is one. He has traveled all over the world looking for oil. He even spent three years in Paris, didn't find any oil there though.

Jim McGrath

 

[Richard Carlsen]

Geologist said this:

"Risks from unusual geologic events such as earthquakes,
tsunamis, and the confluence of 100-year storms with maximum tide are, because of their low probabilities, difficult to accurately quantify. The geologic community cannot accurately predict when events will occur and can only estimate their frequency of occurrence and their likely magnitude. Prospective property owners must assume responsibility for deterring what level of risk they are willing to tolerate."



Okay, then the appraiser can say this:

“The probability of an arms length transaction resulting in the exchange of subject property either by for sale by owner, through a licensed broker or a combination of the two within the standard secondary market requirement of under 6 months is of such a nature that, based on a brief inspection of the property along with 14 digital photos and one crudely drawn sketch, it is difficult to quantify and accurately predict. While the general market shows trends based on long term experience, the specific occurrence within the market at a specific geographic location cannot accurately be predicted and only an estimate of the frequency i.e. length of time on the market, can even be attempted to be made. Since the appraiser has no control over such items as advertising, offering price, condition of the property, showing terms, cooperative terms between brokers, interest rates at the actual time of sale and the selection of the appraiser to do the sale appraisal, no projection or speculation is appropriate for an estimate of length of marketing time.”

 

[Dee Dee]

Ross,
Will check out the dates. Thanks!

 

[Anonymous]

Jim said>>Geologists who work for oil companies are Geophysicists<<

I was a petroleum geologist not a geophysicist. GPS work with seismic, gravity, magnetic and remote sensing data. Don't show one a rock, they usually don't have a clue what they are looking at. Geologist is the generic that descibes stratigraphers, paleontologists, mineralogists, etc. as well as geophysicists. A geophysicist that specializes in earthquake geophysics is a seismologist.

Or, Rich, as your broker might say it, "past performance may not be an indicator of future performance"

Ter

 

[Jim McGrath]

Jim said>>Geologists who work for oil companies are Geophysicists<<

I was a petroleum geologist not a geophysicist. GPS work with seismic, gravity, magnetic and remote sensing data. Don't show one a rock, they usually don't have a clue what they are looking at. Geologist is the generic that descibes stratigraphers, paleontologists, mineralogists, etc. as well as geophysicists. A geophysicist that specializes in earthquake geophysics is a seismologist.

Or, Rich, as your broker might say it, "past performance may not be an indicator of future performance"

Ter

Ter, he went to the Colorado School of Mines, his name is Roy Nix, you might know him from that time.

Jim McGrath