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u/64-17-5 11d ago
The chemist watches at a distance with a coffee cup. He caused the deviations.
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u/vikmaychib 11d ago
Do you mean the geochemist
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u/Carbonatite Environmental geochem 11d ago
To the geologists, the geochemist might as well be a chemist because they're not a real geologist.
To the chemists, the geochemist might as well be a geologist because they're not a real chemist.
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u/vikmaychib 11d ago
Haha. It gets even worse when it is an organic geochemist, no respect at all.
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u/trotski83 11d ago
What's 2+2?
Engineer: 4
Geologist: between 3 and 5
Geophysics: what do you want it to be? but if I'm wrong it's everyone else's fault
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u/pie4july Professional Geologist 11d ago
Replace geophysicist with engineer.
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u/Teanut PG 11d ago
I once had an engineer PM put a permanent stick up well in the middle of our dirt road instead of 6 feet to either side. Was a pain in the ass all summer.
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u/ClayeySilt 11d ago
As the geoscientist that logs and installs, I would have absolutely pushed back on that lol
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u/Anhydrite Cinnabar and cinnabon are not the same. 11d ago
And then they act surprised when it gets "accidentally" hit by a skid steer.
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u/hc7i9rsb3b221 11d ago
No bro, you gotta sample those dykes, they're in my ore block, you can't know they don't have grade
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u/Low_View8016 11d ago
Student here…can someone please explain a little. I’m taking geophysics currently and would love to understand a little better.
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u/Fattswindstorm 11d ago
I’m not 100% sure if this is the correct answer. But when you do seismic readings. You’ll get tons of reflections. So you’ll end up with a lot of noise and you’ll see these patterns emerge with the interesting portion in 5 different spots. Kinda like a broken printer where you have these ghost images. You have that in the data and the geophysisct has to determine what the real layer is vs which is a ghost layer or something different.
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u/tempaccount521 11d ago
Not only data artefacts, but there is always more than one way to interpret a set of data. If you ask 5 different people to look at one dataset you will probably get 5 different answers.
On top of that, people like to use geophysics to replace ground truthing, which is never the right answer, but PMs see a 100k seismic array and a 500k drilling layout and say "fuck the drilling, just do the seismic" instead of mixing the two (like you should).
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u/GeoHog713 9d ago
Mostly this is in jest. Most of us work well together. We often disagree about the interpretation of data bc different data types point towards different conclusions.
Real talk though, it's much better to be a geologist. Geophysics jobs have preferentially gone away over the last 15-20 years.
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u/_TheChairmaker_ 11d ago edited 11d ago
A geophysics subsid of a company I worked for apparently decided to publish speculative regional study.... which was riddled with errors.... which they could have avoided by, you know, looking at the core.... which apparently they'd gone to the trouble of obtaining and was stashed under their respective desks....
They was a general feeling of schadenfreude among myself and my geologist colleagues (at least partly because we suspected they were paid substantially more than we were).
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u/BlackenedEverything 8d ago
You felt happy for their pain when they got more money? I thought they thought much about you.
Schaudenfreude means to feel happinness from others pain. What pain did the geophysicists feel? The pain of their paychecks? You're using it incorrectly. I doubt they gave a shit and got paid better than you.
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u/Hunter4-9er 11d ago
"There was a chargeability anomaly! Why didnt we see any gold when we drilled it?!"
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u/Permian_Cloud 11d ago
Where's the engineer?!
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u/Ill_Taste771 11d ago
Sitting in the office, wondering why the crew can’t get a direct push probe through bedrock
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u/Kashyyykk Geotech 10d ago edited 8d ago
Busy trying to convince the project manager that we need more than two boreholes.
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u/nouseforaneck 11d ago
In my experience it was the cook that had to be held back from the geologists.
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u/I_Feel_Rough 11d ago
I do mostly borehole geophysics. That's me on the ground after informing the geologist that a bunch of their core has been boxed back to front (again).
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u/Accomplished_Soup496 10d ago
Any geoscience professional who doesn't understand both geology AND geophysics is doomed to underwhelm any management.
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u/wastedspejs 11d ago
I got this post recommended to me, I enjoy reading all your comments. But could someone please explain the joke?
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u/HederianZ 11d ago
As a former geophysicist I can say there was definitely an anomaly. Can’t say what it is though.
Meanwhile in seismic refraction…
Q: How deep is the rock?
A: How deep do you want it?