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Impaler[WrG]

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Geology Fixes
« on: July 14, 2009, 10:01:44 am »

I'd like to point out two errors of Geology made in the raws that I hope can be corrected in future releases.

First:  Flint and Chert are essentially the same thing, not two different stones.  The dual names are a result of American and British dialectical differences, though Archeologists use the term Flint to refer to the high quality Chet that's usable for stone tools so it might be retained as a small or large Cluster stone that occurs in Chalk, Limestone and Chert which would remain a Layer forming stone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chert

Second:  Felsite is a mushy 'field-term' for any light colored igneous extrusive rock that needs more analysis to accurately identify.  Thus Rhyolite could be considered Felsite before its properly identified.  Its a bad idea to mix well defined rocks with categories of a very different nature, especially when it introduces overlap.  I would replace Felsite with Dacite, an Igneous Extrusive rock intermediate between Rhylite and Andesite.  Dacite is part of the same rock classification that includes all our other volcanic rocks and dose not overlap with any of them.  On the Intrusive side Granodiorite would be  intermediate between you guessed it Granite and Diorite and give us a complete and geologically accurate system of Igneous rocks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felsite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granodiorite
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Re: Geology Fixes
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2009, 10:13:42 am »

Nice