Category: signposts

Accretionary Wedge #58: Signs!

A friend and I in Death Valley, Fall 2005.
A friend and I posing underneath a sign in Death Valley, Fall 2005.

So, there’s  been no call  for an Accretionary Wedge geoblog carnival for July (although there is a call for August), but some folks on Twitter have suggested that I expand my signposts geomeme into a full Accretionary Wedge. Sounds like a good idea to me!

So, for this month’s Accretionary Wedge, please share a picture of a geographical and/or geological sign that you find interesting. Please submit your entries by August 1st. Two weeks should be enough time for you to share some fun sign pictures! If you don’t have a blog, feel free to email me your picture, and I’ll put it up when I compile everyone’s submissions. If you’ve already commented on the geomeme post, I’ll include your entries as well.

Proposed Geomeme: Signposts!

Me posing with many signposts on Martha's Vineyard in 2008.

This weekend I’m spending some time scheduling some things to autopost here on Georneys while I’m in the field. Due to some delays, I’m not exactly sure when I’ll be leaving. However, sometime in the next couple of weeks I’ll be departing for Alaska for approximately 2 months. I may not have much time for blogging while I’m in the field, but I’ll try to schedule enough things to autopost that my blog readers won’t completely forget me. The “Monday Geology Picture” posts will certainly appear as always.

While I was browsing through some pictures for my weekly picture posts, I ran across a few pictures such as the one above. That is, I ran across pictures of me posing with posts covered with signs indicating the directions and distances to various notable locations. Not always perfectly accurate, these features are mostly tourist attractions, I think. I’m not sure what these features are called– does anyone know if they have a name? Lacking another name, I’ll refer to them as “signposts”.

I always enjoy posing with signposts and make a point of doing so. I think they make for fun pictures. Does anyone else have signpost pictures to share? Let’s make a geomeme of it!