Zircon
Blood Orange
Emails from Jim
Concerning Thomas
"aceous"
100
Mark's favorite element, according to Fall 2020 geochemistry, and related to the name of this category
What is zirconium?
100
A type of diet designed to purify the body
What is a juice cleanse?
100
The ____ will be sitting idle, waiting for samples, so that's why I need to do columns on Wednesday.
What is Isoprobe (mass spectrometer)?
100
A recent favorite snack and prominent party theme
What is a blood orange?
100
A geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 Ma
What is Cretaceous?
200
It's not an eruption age or cooling age, it's a maximum this
What is depositional age?
200
A 1994 hit starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson
Pulp fiction
200
Because there are 15 of these for 13 people, I am taking one at each door. I feel that's justified.
What are hooks?
200
The optimal mode of transportation and exercise, particularly during thunderstorms
What is bicycling?
200
A description of a rock that is glittery all over
What is micaceous?
300
A type of core you don't like to see on the ICPMS
What is an inherited core?
300
The practice of keeping a vehicle stationary and spinning its wheels, causing the tires to heat up and smoke due to friction
What is to peel out?
300
The state of this element's gel is something I'd like to see investigated. I've always blamed the "bad times" on the state of the gel, without any evidence.
What is silica (silicon)?
300
The best musical decade (impartially)
What are the 70's?
300
Rich in the 6th element on the periodic table
What is carbonaceous?
400
The most incorrect term for the age of a sample
What is an age date?
400
You may have a good grasp on this category if you know this slang term meaning a partner, S.O., etc.
What is main squeeze?
400
While I do not know for certain whether the increased intensity is due to these, I will continue to do it. Fast these on 4 Pb's per day will allow me to go to bed 16 minutes early.
What are warm ups?
400
His PI prior to Mark
Who is Ethan Baxter?
400
Vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground, including many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials.
What is herbaceous?
500
Light or electromagnetic radiation ranging from the ultraviolet (UV) to the near-infrared (NIR) regime of the electromagnetic spectrum, which is generated by fast electrons of an electron beam
What is cathodoluminescence?
500
An adaptation of the native salakot headgear of the Philippines
What is a pith helmet?
500
It will take many weeks of aggressive cleaning to bring them back to acceptable levels again. These did nearly 14 years of solid service for me so I will nurse them back to health, no matter how long it takes.
What are microcapsules?
500
A primary subject of hounding, as of late
What is a doctoral thesis proposal?
500
A description of a soft and porous sedimentary rock consisting of calcium carbonate OR a description of an igneous rock primarily composed of ash
What is tuffaceous?