Rock feature vocabulary
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s.price wrote: I'm intrigued. Hook up an explanation.Wikipedia to the rescue en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafoni Tafoni is cool when it is solid, but it is often found on choss. |
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sentrybox |
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anybody say "eyebrow" yet? what about "gendarme" |
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I still don't know the difference between a right-facing and left-facing dihedral or what right-leaning and left-leaning means for that matter. Also I have learned that "obvious" always means the opposite of what I think it means: |
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Baby's Bottom |
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Newton wrote: Pretty sure the Vegas folk call this type of rock varnish, but what about the individual blocks? Armor plates?Just "plates". Also sometimes used for chickenheads that are plate-like. |
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Kitty litter: a very specific type of chossiness often found on granite. Also, exfoliation.
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spooge - small, slimy rounded hold |
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Credit card! |
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gasto-cling |
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Newton wrote: Pretty sure the Vegas folk call this type of rock varnish, but what about the individual blocks? Armor plates? Shingles? Shake?I'd call it gator skin. |
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Wave |
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Newton wrote: Pretty sure the Vegas folk call this type of rock varnish, but what about the individual blocks? Armor plates? Shingles? Shake? And those sections of sharp tiny sharp limestone spikes? I think "prickles" works well. What is a boss or a tongue?I climbed on somthing simular in a place called the Needles, in northern ID. The only thing I could think of was Tetris. |
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In a recent trip report, the only three features my buddy mentions haven't been mentioned here yet. |
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Eric Krantz wrote:In a recent trip report, the only three features my buddy mentions haven't been mentioned here yet.Huh? Come again? |
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Crossly, dong, vag, sugar cooky, mammoth rub, bung hole, mail slot |
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Newton wrote: Pretty sure the Vegas folk call this type of rock varnish, but what about the individual blocks? Armor plates? Shingles? Shake? And those sections of sharp tiny sharp limestone spikes? I think "prickles" works well. What is a boss or a tongue?Scale (?) |
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Splitter. The most misused term around. |
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Eric Krantz wrote:In a recent trip report, the only three features my buddy mentions haven't been mentioned here yet.Well, tell us what they are! |
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Gaston! (say it in an outrageous french accent, you dirty english pig-dogs!) |