Back to work again

The week has been beautiful actually, with clear warm sunny skies and cool breezes. Spring in the MotherLode is lovely, and for the moment it is still spring. I am working in the office way more than I want to be, but the support work for everything we are doing still needs time and while I would rather be working while it is cool, the deadlines are looming as usual.

But on Monday I took the day to get out with my crew again, and we went to the western most portion of the survey area to look at some soils that I thought were all figured out. Ah well, what's new. Everything was different. I found Ione formation out there on top of the strike zone of the greenschist, far above where it should have been. Great. As usual, a puzzle, and always trying to reconstruct the geologic history of a place. Uplift in the subduction zone makes it even more crazy to figure out. But the sun was shining and the breezes were wonderful, and sooner or later it will all make sense and we will have a good soil survey in the end.