Thanks Bill! It is fun most of the time, but I'm looking forward anxiously to retirement -- in exactly four years and one month I will be 62, able to retire. (I think I have to work through the end of the month, so the actual date will be about May 1, 2008, but I still use my birthday, the 10th, as a monthly marker when I mentally flip the calendar over one page.) There are so many things I want to do that I haven't had the time for, with astronomy high on the list, that I should be busy and happy without this work. Best wishes, Joe
That was a fine article on geology in a rock wall. It must be fun job to be paid to talk to scientists in as many fields as possible.
The geology in a wall piece is similar to Gene Shoemaker's story of discovering (recognizing) a big meteorite impact crater in Germany by looking at the rocks in the walls of a cathedral.
Bill Biesele