Show notes: power point! with photos! make sure to turn on the speakers notes for references!
Enjoy!
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Episode 5 is recorded pre-viewing and posting tomorrow!
Ok so now that I generally have an idea for whats going on this semester I have a tentative schedule. I am only going to be working on the podcast on the weekends due to… well I procrastinate a TON and if I give it a day then I can maybe get more done during the week. Also I have something I do every other Sunday during the school year already so…. every other weekend is when I am going to record.
September 11&12
September 25&26
then expect a break, because its super thesis time! I am defending this semester and my first draft is due beginning of October so… yeah I am just now going to say I will be taking a break. depending on when my advisors field work is
I should be back for 1 middle of October 16&17?
then paper work is due so expect another break until mid November
after that I should be on a regular schedule and then in January I am done so I will go back to every week!
that’s the plan at least!
as for topics what I want to cover is:
– plate tectonics
– the time scale
– types of rocks
– k-feldspar
– agate, chalcedony, amethyst, citrine, and other types of quartz
– at least and then try and get farther on my list of silicates!
Also what I need to do is get the index notes up for the show, finish filling out the mineral sheets on the website and on the google docs page so I can make those available.
Oh and podkin? I have been listening 😉 I have lists of things to go over, I hope this isn’t annoying! I’m not trying to be 🙁 There are just a few things I wanted to address that I have been hearing. I am still very behind so I will try and catch up by going running but its nasty outside and perfect weather for working so that’s what I have been doing.
Almost have the shop set up I just need to making something first so I can take a photo! That’s another thing for the weekend! 🙂 I am thinking of making a witch-y ipod case! as soon as I have examples up feel free to make requests as well! I use remnant fabric mostly so I am limited by the selection of scraps at Joanns
I also paint pre-made boxes, Kai makes masks, and for that just request the type of mask (again we get blanks) and colors. He then works his magic 😉
I make dog toys and cat toys too. I just need to get some catnip to plant so I can dry my own. that’s the plan at least!
much love!
~Kathleen
I was gifted some amazing rocks on the BRC and this weeks episode is going to be a little different and I am going to talk about the stuff I came home with!
So what I am looking for is some input ideas, pearls of wisdom, first had experience with:
Petosky Healing Stones
Vesuvianite (idocrase)
obsidian
travertine
I brought back goodies from the Black Rock btw 😉 just sayin’
Episode 4
Show Notes:
Intro Music:
Beethoven Opus 70 No. 1 Piano Trio No. 5 in D major “The Ghost”
Episode outline:
– Mt St Helens
– Opal
– There is a park that MOVES!
Contest winners!
– only 2 entered you both win!
Mt St Helens:
Pre May 18 1980
– “bulge” grew on the N side of the mountain
May 18 1980
– M 5.1 centered under the bulge
– It failed
– Large landslide
– Depressurized the magma
– Lateral blast and then eruption column
– Ash circled the globe
– First large instrumented eruption in the US
– Real death toll: oops 57! I was close!
FIGURE: Photos of the eruption showing lateral blast and eruption column
Promos:
– media astra ac terra
– spirits cast
– inciting a riot
OPAL!
Mineraloid not really a mineral!
Composition: SiO2*nH2O
Some opal needs to be kept in water or it dries out and cracks
Hardness: 5.5 -6.5
(less then quartz)
Luster: vitreous, waxy, greasy, dull
Streak: white
No cleavage
Concoidal fracture
Only a mineral for historical reasons not a true mineral its cristobalite and tridymite and amorphous silica
4 types:
§ Opal –CT
§ Opal C
§ Opal AG (amorphous )
§ Opal –AN (anhydrous = no water)
(mindat.org)
Fluorescent, Short UV=greenish yellow, Long UV=white. ( web mineral)
From the Old Indian upala – “precious stone.” (web mineral)
Found: hot springs deposits, petrified wood, and voids in volcanic rocks, cements sedimentary rocks, and the shells of diatoms.
Distinguished from quartz: inferior hardness.
(Introduction to Mineralology)
Color called fire due to the stacking of uniform spheres (and uniform stacking) diffracts light. (Love is in the Earth)
Metaphysical
Jo says: money, want to be invisible, night vision
Kathleen says: signifier of water (it has water in it!)
Cunningham reference says:
– all planets (Jo: Venus)
– all elements (Jo: fire, Kathleen: water)
– cupid
– bay leaf
– astral projection, psychism, beauty, money, luck, power
– has been seen as back luck but that’s due to a reference (Water Scott Anne of Gierstein)
– all the colors and qualities of other stones, can charge with energies of other stones ( stand in for other stones)
– program or change to meet needs
– create invisibility wrap ion bay leaf
– blending in, in crowds
– helps with eye site
– astral projection and worn for protection and help in projections
– recall past incarnations
– favored to develop psychic powers
– warn to bring out inner beauty
Love is in the earth says:
– associations with cancer, Libra, Pisces and Scorpio
– amplification of traits of characteristics overcome lesser attributes
– recognize and fuel creativity
– Instill faithfulness and loyalty in love, friends, and business.
– Astral projection, happy dreams and changes
– Awaken oycic and mystical qualities
– Grounding.
– Common:
o Increase earn and retain money and self worth
o Balance male and female energies
o Align chakras
§ Proper flow and energy and alignment with your higher self
– Used to invoke visions!
Media Astra Ac Terra episode 13 had opal in it!
– Found on Mars!
– October birthstone
– Found in Australia
– Fire opal in Mexico
– Nevada opal!
– Romans: foresight and prophecies (maybe not the same stone)
– Protect against diseases.
Next week K-spar!
Mt St Helens! PHOTO!
Promos 2
– pennies in the well
– ipod witch
– new world witchery
There is a Park that moves. Seriously it does.
Ending song:
Beethoven Opus 70 No. 1 Piano Trio No. 5 in D major “The Ghost”
Listen to Episode 3 here
Show Notes:
Geo 101 section:
– Earths structure, compositional boundaries, rheology boundaries and using seismology to figure it all out!
Ray paths of EQs through the earth note the bending in the outer core and the way it creates a gap on the surface that is the P-wave shadow!
Travel time curve poster from IRIS (group of seismology organizations) the colored dots are arrivals time is on the vertical axis and degree distance is on the horizontal axis.
Feature Mineral:
– crystal systems
– quartz (general)
(blog posts are here and here )
Ramblings:
old ass rock article
pristine mantle from earths formation!
BBC and MSNBC articles
weekly update
The secret to life may be as simple as what happens between the sheets — mica sheets
detailed notes will be available in the next few days so check back!
Ok I am getting this up
here is the power point I made
I have a word doc, but I think everything is in the power point if you would prefer a word doc let me know, I think I am going to make these files instead of keeping everything on the blog, the show notes would be too long then! so check on the blog for the links eventually they will be in the show notes but I am still disorganized
Tonight I am going to focus on getting episode 3 recorded and I’ll try and get all the supporting info up online this weekend
Episode 3 will cover the following:
Geo 101 and news:
– Earth structure (what it is and how we know)
– Oldest Rocks found!
– mineral structures: this is hard to do without pictures so I am going to post some pictures give some general and think more about how to explain it!
Mineral:
– Intro to Quartz (a few varieties and what makes them that)
– physical properties and metaphysical properties of quartz, clear and some colors.
rambling:
EQs and Volcanoes (weekly update!)
P.S. I tend to type slower then I think and get ahead of myself so if you catch typos and they bug you let me know and I’ll fix them! I tend to not see them…
Ok, so now that I have episode 2 done, its time to get back to work….
not just on my thesis! ha!
I am going to start with quartz, and the way I am going to it is talk about the different varieties, and then sprinkle the varieties throughout the other shows!
So Quartz in the next episode and then on to the list!
I’ll work on the metaphysical stuff for quartz this weekend, or next week. I have a lot to do this week! Thesis, make a dress for my friends wedding and finish stuff for Burningman at the end of the month!
Episode 2 of Borealis Mediation
Definitions, mineral identification and my online identify crisis! (click to download! or subscribe through podbean, podcast alley or itunes!)
Show Notes!
First of all thank you for listening! I have a power point that I am going to try and figure out how to make available with pictures to go along with this episode. Usually I will just include them in the show notes (shouldn’t be this many! ah!) Also next time we will start on quartz, which I will continue throughout the show!
Geo 101 section: Definitions
Mineral
My definition: a mineral is a solid with a specific chemical composition, and structure, so to be a specific mineral the solid must have the right combination of elements AND the specific structure. Formed in a geologic process, but can also be formed through biologic processes, however if something is formed only through biologic processes it is not necessarily a mineral, biologic compound
Rock – aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids and does not have a specific chemical compositions (dictionary)
hand sample-
a piece of rock trimmed to a convenient size for megascopic study and for preservation in a reference or study collection. (dictionary)
thin section-
a fragment of rock or mineral mechanically ground to a thickness of approximately .03 mm and mounted between glasses as a microscope slide. this reduction renders most rocks and minerals transparent or translucent, thus making it possible to study their optical properties. Syn: section. (dictionary)
Color – pretty straight forward, what color is the mineral in hand sample and thin section. (we will do a whole episode on what causes color in minerals! YAY!)
Luster – describes how light goes through the mineral, two broad categories metallic and non-metallic, pretty self explanatory, good descriptive words (intro to mineralogy)
Non-metallic
– Subvitreous: somewhat less brilliant luster than glass
– Vitreous: the luster of glass
– Admantine: brilliant like diamond
– Resinous: luster of resin
– Earthy: dull surface that lacks and shrine generally seen with arrogates of very fine mineral grains like soil
– Greasy: luster as if covered with oil or grease generally caused by microscopically rough surface texture
– Pearly: has an iridescent pearl-like luster often produced by incipient development of cleavage surfaces parallel to the mineral surface (mother of pearl)
– Silky: has a subtly texture shiny appearance similar to silk generally produced by reflection of light from the surface of aggregates composted of parallel mineral fibers like silk.
Metallic
– metallic
– sub metallic
Cleavage – crystallographic planes along which chemical bonding is weaker than others, planes along which the mineral may break (intro to mineralogy)
– we will go into this one in a later episode, when I have a chance to get together a power point with examples, I recommend finding a good mineral sample to look at as well.
Fracture – describes how a mineral breaks when broken or crushed, and not controlled by crystallographic control (intro to mineralogy)
Conchoidal: smoothly curved as on broken glass plates
Irregular or uneven: a rough surface or one with random irregularities
Hackly: a surface with sharp-edged irregularities
Splintery: resembles the splintery end of a broken piece of wood
Streak – color of a mineral when finally powdered, usually you scrape it on a streak plate (we’ll get into that in the next segment) and see what color it is, and its not always the color of the mineral. (intro to mineralogy)
Hardness – the ease with which a mineral may be scratched is a measure of its hardness, I am using and the most widely used is Mohs scale of Hardness ( next section will be on hardness) (intro to mineralogy)
Density – mass per unit volume usually expressed in units of grams per cubic centimeter (intro to mineralogy)
Smell? Yes some minerals have a distinctive smell
Taste (don’t lick all rocks minerals like arsenic that are BAD)
Feature Mineral (this week Mohs Harness Scale and mineral ID kits!):
1 Graphite talc
2 fingernail gypsum
3 penny calcite
4 fluorite
5 knife blade or nail apatite
5.5 window glass
6 orthoclase
7 quartz
8 topaz
9 corundum (sapphire and ruby)
10 Diamond
(intro to mineralogy)
-streak plate
o unglazed porcelain
o black and white
– nail
– cheap knife
– penny
– finger nail
– glass or quartz
– HCl (rust away) (anything with it in it)
– Jewelers loop or hand lens (10x)
– Magnet
– pencil
References:
Dictionary of Geologic Terms, 3 ed., Prepared by the American Geological Institute, Bates, R.L., Jackson, J.A., editors, 1984.
Introduction to Mineralogy, Nesse, W.D., 1999
Hell yeah!
I am going to record some stuff tonight for next weeks podcast, might try and get Kai to help me with the technical stuff so its not just boring old me! I’m going to try and find some more “me” music for the podcast, thats podsafe, we shall see what I come up with.
Its FRIDAY and the data are behaving, the thesis is behaving and ok the weather is sort of shit, but hey Friday = pub day (geologist drink a lot I will refer you to an article called “Why Geologist Love Beer” all I have to say is 175 kegs/week is a lot of beer )
have an excellent weekend to anyone who happens to read this
(sometimes I think I’m talking to myself… again… creeps me out…)
<3
Kathleen
UPDATE: spoke too soon! Thats what I get for not having a window, the sun is out! and its warm! my little plants are going to be so happy!!!!!
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