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| Jo Schaper |
 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:02 pm |
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Mike Williams wrote:
Quote: "Jo Schaper" <jo345sch765aper@s9ocket.net> wrote in message
news:13qfcqsjpd6nmbf@corp.supernews.com...
George wrote:
"rick++" <rick303@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:07a69784-dbdc-44d6-8dd4-7d6fb37eb1f8@e4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
Boston has fairly high seismic risk rating due to a large earthquake
in 1755.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/1755_11_18.php
Gee, did the Patriots lose back then as well? :-)
George
No. They won in 1783.
Hi Jo! I missed the book review you wrote for Geotimes' November issue, but
I see somebody has taken issue with it in the current issue (Letters).
What say you?
Mike Williams
Arroyo Grande, CA U.S.
Hi Mike.
The Feb. Geotimes finally came. Instead of cluttering up
sci.geo.earthquakes with a lengthly obviously OT post, I have posted the
entire review to my website at
http://members.socket.net/~joschaper/schapersreview.pdf for the next
three weeks. Here are the offending sentences:
"Early era paleontologists have concentrated so much on the Burgess
Shale and other Edicaran fauna that the more common varieties such as
stromatolites and trilobites have been overlooked. Stinchcomb remedies
this omission with this book."
The fellow who responded apparently misread the sentence to think I
meant that the Burgess Shale was Edicaran. I was never under any such
delusion; before writing the review, I even did a quick recheck on the
Burgess Shale to determine its time classification which he correctly
describes as Cambrian. Stinchcomb's book covers both Precambrian and
Cambrian fauna, as do the Edicaran and the Burgess Shale. The point of
the sentence was that most book length treatments of fossils of these
time periods cover the strange and fantastic soft-bodied imprints, and
tend to neglect stromatolites and trilobites, which Stinchcomb covers.
A book review, by nature, has to be condensed and short. Obviously, this
sentence was too compressed for the person disagreeing to catch the
drift of what was going on. I might be guilty of that, but not for
mixing up the geologic time scale, of which he accuses me.
Jo |
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| Mike Williams |
| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:31 am |
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Hi Jo - Thanks. I'll check out the link to your review. I figured something
like you describe was the likely explanation, as the supposed error was too
gross to believe you had made it. The letter writer should have looked for
an alternate interpretation, too.
Mike Williams
Arroyo Grande, CA U.S. |
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| Aidan Karley |
| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:48 am |
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Hi Jo,
Sounds an interesting book.
Your comment about "many books only showing picture of perfect
specimens" is quite on the mark. And it's exactly why so many serious
guide books (and technical monographs) are replete with pen-and-ink or
camera lucida drawings. I was reading one of Conway Morris' papers on
near-invisible scraps of Greenland yesterday and sure enough - it's out
with the camera lucida again.
Of course, the downside is that in the time it takes to do one
good drawing, you could have shot off a roll of film, walked to the
nearest 1-hour process+print shop, had lunch, picked up your prints,
and ambled back to the lab. Horses for courses.
I had the good fortune a couple of months to win a little prize
form Geol.Soc.Lond - which I took as the Special Publication of my
choice :
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/publications/bookshop/page3101.html?
page=1&perpage=5&rtnpage=184&bookshopKeyword=ediacaran&authorEditor=&pu
blisher=noSelection&series=noSelection&publicationYear=all&category=&jo
inOperator=all&filter=&filterValue=
(urrgh - horrible link. GeolSoc home page ; Online bookshop in
the RHS column ; search for "ediacaran" ; you get to
The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota
Product Code: SP286
Type: Book
Series: GSL Special Publications
Ten Digit ISBN: 1-86239-233-1 )
Anyway, I've more-or-less finished reading my copy. Would you be
interested in doing a swap for your review copy of your early palaeo
book ? Postage for used books shouldn't be too extreme.
My email account is in the tediously obvious form
<firstname><shifted-hyphen><lastname> ; while I think like a Houyhnhnm,
I use their beasts of burden for handling public email.
--
Aidan Karley, FGS
Aberdeen, Scotland
Message written at Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:06 GMT, now I'm back on shore. |
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