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Northern Michigan. Photo by Matt Stone ‘91. “Location map” for Salida project comps talks in the 1980s and 90s. Salida Research team, 1992. Photo by Anu Gupta ‘93. Shelby sez:. "This is the point where life is simple. If you can get to the top, it's all downhill from there.".
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“Location map” for Salida project comps talks in the 1980s and 90s.
Shelby sez: "This is the point where life is simple. If you can get to the top, it's all downhill from there."
Shelby sez: In reference to a plot showing free energy of nucleating crystals: "They get too much positive free energy, and they say 'the hell with it' and dissolve."
Shelby sez: "If you crystallize quartz...you get quartz."
The Geology frisbee team was named “Shel-Bee,” cartoon by George Davis (from his structural geology textbook)
Shelby sez: (After realizing that he had misspelled electronegativity): "Electronegativitie? Yeah, that's all the French I know."
Shelby with Dan Ela and Lynn Tennyson, Wisconsin 1978. Photo by Jo Ann Murishege Gronberg ‘79
Shelby sez: "There's no free lunch in thermodynamics."
Jean Boardman at the Farmhouse, 1970s. Photo by Dan Spencer ‘79
Johnson Shut-Ins, Missouri, 1994. Photo by Karen Swanberg ‘94
Shelby sez: "I see a lot of nodding, but I don't think it's through comprehension."
Shelby sez: "If you're still with me now, I'll get rid of you in a minute."
Shelby sez: "We're getting a little behind, but that's okay...we'll catch up on the last day of class."
Shelby sez: "If they're forbidden but they still happen, they can't be too forbidden."
Shelby sez: "Life gets more complicated when you consider what happens with anisotropic minerals."
Shelby sez: "Either my brain's too fast or it's too slow, I can't figure out which."
Steve and Dave Boardman at the Farmhouse, late 1970s. Photo by Dan Spencer ‘79
Shelby sez: "You've got to keep it straight in your mind or else you'll get confused."
Research trip near Salida, CO, 1987. Photo by Peter Sauer ‘88
Shelby sez: "You can fall through the atmosphere. You can't fall through the crust."
Shelby sez: "You don't have to read the entire section on systematic mineralogy. If you really want to you can...some people read dictionaries."
Geology picnic at Vicks’ house, 1976. Photo by Meryl Rosenfeld Haber ‘78
Shelby sez: "Snell's Law says that... UGH!... no, it doesn't say that. It says 'Don't get chalk on your face.'"
Shelby sez: "That's a sort of a bogus way of looking at things. Don't tell it to a physicist."