The global geological Olympics, envisaged for 2024...
Events currently under consideration...:
- 20 kg rock-sample rucksack 5000 m
- Running away fast 100m
- Random angry mammal evasion 200 m
- Random angry insect-swarm evasion 50 m
- Electric-fence steeplechase
- [Geological] hammer throw
- Sample-box shotput
- Rock and hammer baseball
- Notebook discus
- Ammonite discus
- Computer target-javelin
- Boulder splash
- River-crossing 50m
- Scuba rock-haul
- Swamp-mud escape
- Wet map reading
- High-tide challenge
- Slippy seaweed slide
- Stone skimming (sedimentary)
- Stone skimming (igneous)
- Stone skimming (metamorphic)
- Pumice rafting
- Crevasse long-jump
- Scree-slope downhill
- Scree-slope uphill
- Helmet rock-header
- Free-style geo-scream
- Precipice boulder roll
- Speed sketching
- Speed colouring-in
- Source-rock sniffing
- Lava-flow pole vault
- Lava-scree boot shredding
- Venomous reptile charming
- Grain-size taste-testing
- Geological hammer concretion smashing
- Find-a-fossil
- Speed-digging
- Stinging nettle high-jump
- Wind-tunnel tent chase
- Free-style uncontrolled fall
- Strike & dip 200
- Outcrop-whispering
- Stalagmite balancing
- Stalactite grip-hang
- Cobble Jenga
- Cobble juggling
- Van speed-fording
- Speed axle-breaking
- Hire-van stream-bed 5k
- Stuck-in-the-mud speed escape
- Cliffside outcrop parking
- Outcrop speed-stop
- Outcrop speed-reversing
- Forgotten colleague retrieval race
- Pushing-the-van 1500m
- Hydrofluoric speed-fizz
- Microscope point-count
- Foraminifera flicking
- Rock-colour chart 200
- Granite rock-crushing
- Lost sample finding
- Geological time-scale speed recitation
- Modelling program speed-crashing
- Jargon invention
- Question evasion
- Creative numeracy
- Creative contouring
- Stereonet 500
- Conclusion long-jump
- Guess-that-volume
- Pin the X on the prospect
- Engineer goading
- Geophysicist wrestling
- Petrophysicist frustrating
- Management befuddling
Venue locations are yet to be decided, but leading contenders are:
- Scotland
- Galapagos
- Grand Canyon
- Iceland
- Alps
- Red Lion, Slough
Suggestions for additional events and venues welcome.?
Reservoir Geologist at Petrostrat and Trustee (Director) at Formby Pool Trust
3 年This is brilliant Dave, I like the sound of the Strike & dip 200!
Exploration Geologist - Consultant at HEREMA S.A.|| Researcher & Invited lecturer (AUTH)
3 年Hahahaha! VERY inspired! I hope the majority of these are from others' narrations and not from your own experiences!
Independent Mining and Minerals Industry Advisor
3 年If I was only 50 years younger, I'd star at the swamp mud escape. Consider the Andes as a location, it has it all!
Geologist
3 年I would compete in the structural analysis tournaments.