Surface Outcrops

Dealing with processes and geometry when interpreting seismic profiles or well data is already challenging from the confine of a chair and a computer screen. Now, imagine logging a stratigraphic series of a few hundreds metres in Nature, layer after layer, and correlating between outcrops that are kilometres apart. Or following a fault or dyke to identify the trace, length, geometry and associated deformation before drawing them on a map, and as accurately as possible.

 

Outcrop geology is hard, not because it is physically demanding to walk, climb, and hang by loose rocks over days/weeks/months at the time and in all wheatears, but also remaining at the same time focused to grasp the geometries over large areas in order to  report them on maps. Otherwise - well, either the data collection and analysis would be weak, or one has to go down and start the climb over to get it right. But knowledge comes first from anlysing and understnding the natural processes, in map and cross-section view when standing in front of them in full reality, then interpretating the sub-surface data with a whole another perspective.