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Horses of Merlin Picspam!!!
and some horse-related geekiness from me

Some beautiful jousting greys. The horse on the lower right is an Andalusian type, while the dapple grey to its left appears to be a draft cross of some kind.

This is "Arthur" jousting (hooray for stunt doubles!). I don't think this is Torrento, either, but with action shots it is hard to tell.

Two pics of this horse because I love it's stirrup-shaped brand.

Horses at night preparing to do battle with the dragon. They don't seem too concerned.

On the way to...somewhere, Morgana & retinue are accosted by bandits. The attack begins in the second frame, as you can see the horses begin to "startle". They appear to be spooking but they're actually responding to their rider's cues! As you can see from the two lead horses their postures have changed and ears have shifted back, usually meaning they're paying close attention to their rider.

I love Morgause's horse, a beautiful probably-Andalusian grey. Someone told me that Arthur's horse in this scene is, in fact, Torrento, so there you go. Someone needs to fix his mane, though...it's on the "wrong" side (a horse's mane should fall to the right), although maybe that's just an American thing? Maybe someone can fill me in.

Unicorns are horsey creatures so I'm including it. I love the horse who plays one here. Unicorns are often played by Andalusians (as I think is the case on Merlin) as they have the required "majestic" look. I have to say, I stared at that first shot for a long time, because as a former owner of a grey horse I have to admire just how white the horse is. That's no easy feat!

On the left, Merlin prepares to ride out to the Isle of the Blessed on his trusty bay. On the right, we're on the same quest with a different horse. Hmm, maybe he stopped to change horses? :P

Morgana rides out to meet Alvarr, with Merlin following. I think it's interesting how Morgana and Arthur both (I think) ride with two hands (English style) on the reins, while Merlin uses one (Western style). I wonder if it is because Merlin is from the "country"? Don't know.

I love Merlin's horse in the left frame..it's hard to see but he (she?) has a very nice profile. Merlin's horse seems to change quite a bit! In the second shot he is leading a cob-like dark bay. It seems they try to make sure Arthur is always on his bay (it's not always the same horse, but they all look very similar) while Merlin's changes, possibly to infer that he rides whatever horse is available?

And that's all I've got. I hope you enjoyed the horsey-picspam and tolerated my horse geekiness. Thanks!

Screencaps by Emma-Jane, found here

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Oh Glod, I *had* forgotten accreted terrane! *facepalm* Silly me!

At the moment, the rough structure I"m thinking is a fairly simple cyclic sedimentary sequence that's been uplifted and tilted to the southeast, and probably limestones capping with softer mudstones underneath giving us dipslopes, but I'm also toying with putting some antiforms and synforms in, tilting THAT and then eroding off to get the mountains. More complicated, but results in a prettier map, which is always of the good!

It's easy for me to remember accreted terrane because that's what the state I live in is, for large parts of it :)

Anticline/Synclines are much prettier, but as you say more complicated as then you have to take into account metamorphosis (and associated changes to composition) and the geologic events that caused the folding/doming. Hmmm *ponders*

We've got some accreted terrane going on but most of our geology is focused on the OMG HUGE PLATE BOUNDARY running through the country ... hence my first thought on those mountains being back-arc volcanism!

I know right? And the enormous batholith to the north is GOING to cause some contact met, for which I think I'm going to have to subtly question my best mate (he's a met-pet/economic geo student) because sadly I slept through most of my met classes. Whoops!

Petrology was one of my favorite classes, but I really only took the one. Well, plus field geo which includes a lot of that. I was a soft rock geologist *runs and hides*

You guys have some rockin' (yes, pun intended) geology over there. Passive margin=boooring (well, mostly. Unless you think about the methane hydrates off the East Coast here and think about what would happen if they slumped. Funtimes!)

*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!

Oh I know, right? I went to Montana for field camp and was SO HAPPY to finally SEE sequences and whatnot without having to use my imagination or trek through underbrush. Plus, LIMESTONE. Most of the limestone here is eroded like woah, and while we do get to see some structures we mostly have the US Highway system to thank for that (yay dynamite!);so many of my fieldtrips were to questionable highwayside locales.

My Petrology teacher tried to recruit me but I was already doing research on sea-level rise at that point and was just starting to nail down the art of foraminifera identification. I wasn't about to give that up to perfect my thin section analysis technique :)

LIIIIMESTONE IT IS MY SECRET GEOLOGICAL LOVERRRR <3 <3 <3

Oh roadcuts are SO much fun. In a couple of weeks I get to help take eighty-odd second-year students up to Wanganui, force them to wear sexy sexy hi-visibility vests and line them up along a stretch of highway with hairpin bends at either end and then say 'here is your Jacob's staff, here is your Abny level, you will eat with it, you will sleep with it, now please to measure the true thicknesses of these dipping units ...' Admittedly our highways are only two lanes, but oh well (we have only two places in the entire country with highways upwards of two lanes, fun fact!)

FORAMS! I did radiolaria for my honours - what forams are you looking at? *bounces* I had to give up on micropal because my eyes and glasses were getting ruined by microscopes and also because molluscs are seductive, but I still love them like fire ...

Limestone is awesome. We had little plastic vials of low-molar HCL that we used to test for limestone. Leading to the not-very-creative catchphrase of "Time to drop acid!".

Haha oh I wore those visibility vests many times. So fashionable! But after learning how cool roadcuts can be I got a bad habit of trying to look at them all the time...which, when driving up in the White Mountains is every 5 seconds or so...maybe not such a good idea. So I let other people drive and yell at them to pull over when I see some cool stuff :)

My forams were mostly benthics; the ones I was looked at for my honors thesis were shallow water guys, but we had to ID some deep sea benthics for my marine geo class and a few other small projects. I agree...they are hard on the eyes and glasses. I spent a few weeks once doing grain-size counts for a paleodepth analysis. I thought I was going to go cross-eyed!

Famous quote from our structural geo lecturer 'Now guys, I want to see you dropping acid at every outcrop!'

Heheh, I was doing some fieldwork with one of my officemates once out in the Wairarapa and we BOTH had our heads out the window looking for a specific horizon, driving along chanting at each other 'mudstone, mudstone, gravels, mudstone, gravels, SHELLBED STOP STOP!' and we nearly came off on the gravel roads a few times ..

Ooh, shallow benthics. I love benthics, they come in the coolest shapes! We do a foram palaeoecology lab for our second years and it has both planktics (mostly globigerinids) and benthics, and I get to enthuse about my deep and abiding love of uvigerinids, it's great :D

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