main pitfalls (was re: New subscriber)

[Ken Grimes]

>> > 
>> > > What are the main pitfalls waiting to trip up an inexperienced
>> > > surveyor?
>> > 
>> > Magnetic bits on your person
>> > Wet paper / ball point pens
>> > Sloppy recording / poor sketching
>> 
>>   Decade inversion reading instruments, and other artifacts
>>   of not enough practice.
>> 
>>   The fine art of picking a survey point you can find so that
>>   starting out where you left off is possible.
>> 
>Finding someone that is willing to do the survay with you to the standards
>that are needed
>

* Forgetting to sketch cross-sections & long-profiles (and other detail).
* Reading wrong side (percent grade) of a SUUNTO clinometer
* Not taking a spare pencil
* Thinking you can remember details and sketch them after leaving the cave.
* Hanging compass, clino, pencil torch, etc from separate lanyards around your neck where they will weave an intricate macrame and eventually strangle you!!!


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Ken Grimes                               Phone +61 +3 5573 4503
Regolith Mapping,  PO Box 362,  Hamilton,  Vic 3300,  Australia
Cainozoic Geology, Geomorphology, Karst & Speleology.
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