Behind the Scene : Geologic Mapping

One new thing I got last semester is geologic mapping.I'll write it down everything about and involved on, including laugh and tears during the long process wich take approximately 3 months(march to may).
Professionaly geologic mapping is a highly interpretives scientific process that produce geologic mapwith certain simbols and colour, used for overwhelming geoscience work such as coal mining;characterizing oil and gas source;predicting earthquacke, vulcanoand lindslide hazard; and much more.And the mapping I did quite good exercise to reachthat level. My geomorphologic and structural geologic mapping united as one and my group located in Patuk, Gunung Kidul, it's about One hour from UGM. We're devides into 1 groups. Important note that your mapping could be heaven or hell extremely depends on Who's your group mate.Some show their frustating bad attitude that made others mad, stress, or cry.Sounds dramatic? That's what surely happend.Luckyly mine's "heaven".
Honestly after several time field survey finnaly I got the field taste, strangely I felt comfort, it's like pretend to be real geologist exploring the field browsing for either outcrops or geologic structure without being bothered by procedures and ruleslike in official fieldtrip. We're lonely, free, wild and ready to reveal the nature's secrets! Haha. There splashing feeling to come back again and again nevertheless the fields incredibly hot, or sometimes raining hard without bring any raincoat! A geologic spirit guess so, I don't know where it from.
Every field visiting cost about Rp. 15.000 for consumtion and gasoline charge. In order to collect the data we must observed to Patuk EVERY spare time we had that means I couldn't back home (for 2 month!) easily like I used to, that's the annoying part of mapping probably. I didn't even electing for legislative candidate due to our first mapping! What a trully bad politic awarness(Ups!).
We ride our motorcycle slowly, moving arround our eyesto found someting like fault, joint, bedding then measured the dip-strike.
It's knda funny interacting with local dweller in our 3 x 4 km lot since they're remarkably polite. Those traditional old people used to say hi and asked us to take a sit or drank for a while in their simple house even we're strangers. My rich non javanese group mates wondering and pleased to saw that kinda attitude. Well, it is Javanese.
If we done with the fiel, after 3 months, the next chalenge is making the mapping poster in full computerize format, but none of us masters corel draw. That's a hell. Every groups confused, frusstate, and stressed of how to make the right poster, we're newbie right? To accomplish the poster we forced to work hard, we went home very late until about 2 am everyday an a week!!Even, could sleep for 2 hours felt like a big gift from God. It is Geology. Everyone's tired, some cry. All curious about the mapping presentation, the next step after create poster. Some say it's the time to beat us withsuch difficult questions concerning our poster. Well, I guess it's true, becauze my group was horribly beated with no mercy.
It's fine, the point is about exercise our self for KL next year...