Leland
As you'll note from my reply to ][<en, I've been involved in family
business.
I'm also spending a lot of energy on the actual business ... but change
is beginning to occur, and it's feeling better each month.
I've just come off a 2 year term on the APT Board - and suspect that
even more work is in store for me off rather than on.
I'm helping run the APT Australia Chapter, the DOCOMOMO Australia
working party (and their respective websites), and just as a sideline, I
seem to be running the sport of mountain bike orienteering in NSW at
present as well.
Rejoined BP in June this year after being bounced in January by the
listserv. Have been a fairly active lurker for reasons outlined above.
Likely to continue lurking most of the time for same reasons!
But it is good to be hanging around on the periphery.
Whilst in Montreal, with the election then looming, I was reminded of
the great introduction to certain parts of the US preservation
fraternity my membership of BP provided when I attended my first APT
conference in Galveston in November 2004.
I arrived at the hotel around midnight on election night, having left
Sydney 72 hours previously and flown via London (to attend a design
workshop on a project in Dubai). I was way out of time zone, and had no
desire to sleep. Hanging around the hotel lobby (deserted when I
arrived) I came across three characters sitting in front of a television
watching the election coverage. They'd found some beer (by convincing
the reception clerk to give them the key to the bar, I later
discovered), and I thought maybe I might be able to score one too
(typically Aussie freeloader ...).
I sat down, we started chatting, and eventually established that we were
all there for the APT conference. The introductions began. Hi, I'm
David. And I'm Anne. I'm Derek. I'm Tom. I pondered briefly, then
asked ... "Derek ... not THE Derek Trelstad?" Surprisedly, Derek said
yes. He asked how I knew ... and I told them I was David West. Anne,
of course, was Anne Sullivan, and the third of the triumvirate was Tom
Jester. Suffice to say, we knew each other from my then several years
of membership of BP. I then met several other BP members over the
course of the conference. And it felt like home.
At least this year the red states were smaller in number and most of us
could celebrate!
Trust you are all well and preparing yourselves for the transition.
Cheers
David West
Executive Director
internationalconservationservices
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M: +61 (411) 692 696
-----Original Message-----
From: The listserv where the buildings do the talking
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leland
Torrence
Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2008 11:07 AM
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Mr. West, I presume,
My goodness. Seems these new listers are true catalysts. Lurkers
unite!
What have you been up to?
Cheers,
Leland
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:50 PM
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Personally, I like the term 'fubrite' ...
David West
Executive Director
internationalconservationservices
T: +61 (2) 9417 3311
M: +61 (411) 692 696
sustaining your heritage
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2008 10:29 AM
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Wow, you're all getting into a lot more detail than I'd think anyone
would
be interested in knowing about. But yes, slates are compressed and
heated
shales (or better yet clastic rocks...geologists see a lot of gray area
since all we're really talking about in these definitions is grain size
and
what has happened since the muck was deposited). Imagine a few hundred
feet
of nicely horizontal beds of mud and silt and then picture a continent
slamming into those beds. There's a great deal of heat and the
constituent
minerals begin to recrystallize. Clays become fine-grained micas.
However,
these new platy minerals orient themselves at a high angle to the
direction
of the compression. This is what produces the cleavage or rift in a
slate.
If you look closely at some slates you will often see a faint banding
across
the split face. This is the original bedding orientation that is now at
an
angle to the rift. It's best observed when there are sandier layers
present. If you get a little hotter and squishier the slates will first
become something called a phyllite, then a schist, then finally a gooey
mess.
And if you think cleavage, hardness, graywacke and schist are funny, you
can
imagine the giggling in mineralogy class when the professor first
introduced
the mineral "cummingtonite". I schist you not.
John
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gabriel
Orgrease
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:12 PM
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John Walsh wrote:
> Slates are recrystallized rocks
due to compression?
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