*drags you out of your hiding place* Dude, I'm palaeo. Doesn't get much softer rock than that! I liked petrology but it kind of went over my head once we started in on metamorphism.

We love our little sliver of island on an active boundary! We've got a bit of everything (except Carboniferous rock, for some reason we missed out on that). However it IS all covered in lots of vegetation. I envy people in the central US and Australia who get nice bare rock plains and who actually get to SEE their sequences. We just have to play GPS join-the-dots!