tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200928242024-03-13T21:06:11.585+11:00Lounge of the Lab LemmingI'm a geochemist. My main interest is in-situ mass spectrometry, but I have a soft spot in my heart for thermodynamics, poetry, drillers, trees, bicycles, and cosmochemistry.C W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comBlogger982125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-81816028795091109882023-07-16T21:57:00.006+10:002023-07-16T21:59:44.783+10:00Geosonnet 70 <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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An accidental drilling in the deeps Reveals a sleeper agent- felsic melt Invisible to seismic, magma sleeps Until basaltic trigger card is dealt. Diffraction limits fuzz the chamber’s sides Viscosity impedes acoustic tests A covert, dried out dacite simply hides Above basaltic plumbing, long at rest. Three hundred years, this hidden magma sleeps Until it’s poked by hydrothermal drill.C W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-89119576206276235392022-11-18T23:44:00.000+11:002022-11-18T23:44:16.841+11:00The Witch King’s Forest Reserve<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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C W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-31644958746843440582021-06-17T00:39:00.000+10:002021-06-17T00:39:32.679+10:00Can mining Australian coal slow sea level rise?Disclaimer. I am stuck at home waiting for a child’s COVID
test result, and desperately looking for a distraction from some personal
admin. I am taking a sick day. This has nothing to do with my work, my
employer, or anything else and is entirely me falling down an internet rabbit
hole in order to avoid making a phone call.
Second disclaimer. I am not a climatologist, or an oceanographer,
or a C W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-12833600188270243582021-05-02T21:28:00.004+10:002021-05-02T21:29:49.112+10:00Geosonnet 68A hickory, a dickory, a dock Diffusion rate of mice when timing’s known But atoms, unlike rodents, have a clock Which contradicts the others, all alone.“A thousand Years,” says fat man Barium. M-g squeaks, “Nah mate, more like less than one.” T-i says, “Where’s my honorarium? I can’t work here, diffusion’s not begun.” He’s right! The two plus profiles haven’t moved. The curves are melt dilution C W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-61241710533370510022021-03-07T22:14:00.002+11:002021-03-07T22:14:36.638+11:00Geosonnet 67 When Hansel, sister Gretel mark their way,They leave a trail of breadcrumbs to defineThe path they’ve tread, retraced at end of day.Their wish to scamper home demands the line.But breadcrumbs made of stone tell diff’rent tales.Dropped from volcanic vents, they lead not home.Broadcast when glowing edifice exhales,When they detached from rhyolitic foam.And as the bubbles grew, they stretched C W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-58443034541971909702021-02-18T21:33:00.006+11:002021-02-18T22:15:22.861+11:00Geosonnet 66A Solo smuggler must hide his freight.Hidden compartments store his shady wares.So when a mineral conceals hydrateThere must be secret structure which ensnaresThe water slipping through the MOHO line.A fugitive from oceanic law.How does an olivine the H confineAnd store in crystal structure lattice flaw?The brucite sidekicks are forsterite’s foilsMagnesium, low silica createTetragonal sites C W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-56372388965453702302020-12-04T00:53:00.002+11:002020-12-04T00:53:55.118+11:00Manhattanhenge, Milankovitch, and Mystical Miscalculations <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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<![endif]--> “With great power comes great responsibility”
In 2002, when this was the tag line for a superhero movie,
it was an obvious to everyone. Literal popcorn stuff. How times have changed.
Over the past decade, in particular,C W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-54592197651579986782020-10-07T01:14:00.001+11:002023-09-26T22:07:21.930+10:00Henry VI, part one: The Joan of Arc cutWilliam Shakespeare’s history plays Henry V and Richard III are two of his, and English-speaking Theatre's, greatest plays. They are also among his best known works. Less famous, however, are the three Henry VI plays- these are basically the historical filler between the death of Henry V and the famous Winter of Discontent. The second two Henry VI plays are about the civil strife that hurledC W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-3112047119360348562020-09-20T21:45:00.001+10:002023-03-30T09:11:24.936+11:00Geosonnet 65Speed dating is a scattershot affair Which blasts the hearts of river zircon grains No magic mirror can discern the fair And youngest zircon sediment contains. If dating based on chemistry is used The youngest grain is easier to find. But chemistry is tedious! Abused Statistics can be questioned and refined. The youngest kernel density’s a crone The youngest single grain is way too young, C W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-12817416054430797552020-03-08T01:52:00.002+11:002020-03-08T01:52:52.793+11:00Book Review: Illegal, by Prof Elizabeth F Cohen
The knock on the door came well before dawn in the eighties, and our train had stopped dead in utter darkness. It was a sleeper train, and it was about to be sealed. We were taking the overnighter from Munich to West Berlin, and the train, which had to traverse East Germany, was being inspected before being sent on its no-stops-allowed run behind the iron curtain to C W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-22817397463619224812020-02-18T22:05:00.001+11:002020-02-18T22:05:31.130+11:00Geosonnet 64<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4ptC W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-66478653564291902882019-12-18T23:15:00.005+11:002019-12-18T23:15:58.857+11:00Some quick thoughts on the current suite of Star Wars movies<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Won't flow, or run, or put up any fight.
When faced with doing geologic time,
Repeat offenders recognize their plight.
The good cop gives LIP service to concern
"We know you've had these outbursts in the past."
Bad cop cuts in, "A poisoner's return:
The mercury's more widespread than the last."
They double down- he's in the hot spot now,
"The plankton and C W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-35767735720210313052019-07-12T19:16:00.000+10:002019-07-12T19:16:05.529+10:00Geosonnet 56
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