Interests meme

[elaby]

Atashi meme sheep desu. I've been meaning to put this up, and I keep forgetting!

Just sent about a dozen similar e-mails off to Reading Centers all across the country, asking them what they're up to! Maybe one or two will even respond! I'm not too hopeful, as it IS summer, but this would look good in my research.


Memosity wherin I get you to talk about yourself!

Reply to this meme, and I'll pick one of your LJ interests. You tell me a whole bunch of stuff about it, and we all learn a bit more.
And it's not part of the meme, but I like talking about myself so you can also pick one of my interests and I shall bore you to tears babbling about it!

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[x-pyewacket-x.livejournal.com]

^^ You ask, I answer, madam!

About 650 million years ago in the Cambrian Period, the earth's southen hemisphere was absolutely DOMINATED by a continental mass that consisted of modern day Australia, India, South America, Africa, and Antarctica (possibly a chunk of Florida and southeast Europe as well). Dr. Eduard Suess, an Austrian geologist in the 19th century, came up with the notion of the supercontinent and dubbed it "Gondwanaland" after a region of rock strata, Gondwana (Gondhyana) in India that provided solid support to his theory. Besides being one of the largest landforms ever to grace the face of our little blue world, it's also up to our current knowledge the one that lastest longest, with an overall longevity of about 550 million years before the individual continents began to split up. ^^

-I- think it's particularly cool because our region, parts of coastal Maine and maritime Canada, originated from a tiny little speck of a micro-continent called Avalonia that broke away from Gondwanaland sometime during the Ordovician period, and travelled from somewhere in the latitude of New Zealand before becoming part of North America. ^^ So we grew up on a part of old Gondwanaland! Which excites me!

And...Shatterzone. Oh dearie me and lawks.

That has two definitions:
1) The distinct geometric cracks formed in certain igneous rocks formed with molten magma oozes up through existing rocks, which stresses the overlying bedrock and makes big chunks of rock fall into the molten magma body. Some of those chunks of bedrock melt in the magma, while others stay intact and end up suspended in the magma. When the granite cools these blocks remain surrounded by crystallized granite. The broken, fractured zone of rock is called the shatter zone.
2) The name of the punk rock band that antarcticlust and I will one day form in order to bring positive, hip press to the scientific community. All ours songs will be about geology, climatology, dinosaurs, thunderstorms, mountains, and glaciers. We came up with the notion while exploring the shatter zone on the volcanic Great Head lobe by Sand Beach in Acadia National Park.

Future album releases will include the titles, "Mammoth Love" and "Don't Hold Back Your Ice Age" and the legendary ballad "Isostatic Rebound is So Uplifting." :3

[elaby.livejournal.com]

That is the coolest thing EVER. Your awesomeness knows no bounds ^_^ I learn something cool every time I talk to you!

Next time I go to Acadia, I am SO searching that out!