Tell You a Story~

Hey! I'm gonna tell you a story.
Once upon a time, there is a....
bla bla bla.
Nah, it's not a granny story.

Well, I'm so gonna going to my final year researching site this weekend. Got all the stuffs needed with me, definitely. Perhaps some of you may not seen before, or perhaps some of you seen it before but never know it is related somehow in some aspect of my study area. Curious on what it is?
Let's see..

So this is a GPS. What is a GPS? Maybe some of you may ask. Well, it is the global positioning system where you can locate where you are by the longitudinal and latitudinal reading. It's quite different from the usual one that you have in your car. The accuracy of the GPS is depending much on the model and the satellite available at that particular area. However, the more the satellite making response, the more accurate the position point it is showing. This tiny little thing can mark the point you wish to plot on the map while you are out at the field and it has a track back system to track back the route you went through and you may transfer it to the map and make your own route on the map. It has more functions like showing the altitude, speed, North-South and bla bla bla. But i literally just use it for marking the important point where i found interesting outcrop and save the track back routes in order for me to put it on the current map. This tiny little thing cost about RM 2000++. Dun ask me, my lecturer told me that. 

Well, this, might be something you are more familiar with. The measuring tape. You can see it anywhere in the construction sites. We usually use this to manually measure the diameter of a outcrop we found. (*well, it's actually can be done using a GPS by point marking as well). So, we use it more often to measure the vertical height of the outcrop we found (because in this case, GPS cant be use).

Ha ha!!! this one! I bet you saw this more often in the Hong Kong Forensic or the CSI movies series? This is the sample bag that we use to place our sample collected from different sites. And NO, we don't collect evidences of crime, we collect the rocks instead. A'ah, not the rock you found at the side of the road. It's the fresh rock sample that we knock it off from the massive outcrop. If the crime scene has the forensic, then the rocks scene has us. If the forensic speak for the death, then we speak for the rocks.  

Talking of the magnifying glass, we don't bring this

to the field. 

Instead, we bring the more handy one with 3 different magnifying level. 

So this is the one. 

1 mol of HCL! This is not for the suicidal in the field. It's for the field test purposes to help us to differentiate between the Quartz and the carbonate rocks groups. You learned chemistry before! So i bet you understand the reaction between HCL with Quartz and HCL with Carbonates, alright? 

Do you ever wonder how we took sample from the outcrops in the field? No, our bare hand isn't strong enough to get those rocks off from where it belongs. We use geologist hammer instead. It's not the hammer you saw in your house. It's the special hammer with special hardness so that we can get the sample rocks knocked off from the massive body. There are basically 2 types of hammer, one is for the igneous rocks and another for the sedimentary rocks. The photo shown down here is the hammer for igneous rocks with the sharp end. 

Well, we bring compass to the field as well. The Brunton compass is the compass we use. We actually using that compass for measuring the strike and dip of a bedding plane instead of getting the North South direction. 

     

Well, I'm finishing my last line.
And oops, do I have my story told yet? Alas! I have gone way too far.
well, next time. Next time I will tell the story i promised. =P