Tig
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| Location | Utah, United States |
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| Interests | Researching, reading, writing, anthropology, music, art, movies, playing poker, learning, food, history, anatomy, theater, and pretty much anything else. |
| Favorite movies | Little Women, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Snatch, Anne of Green Gables, Hot Shots Part Deux, the Great Mouse Detective, Life is Beautiful, Top Secret, Amelie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, the Princess Bride, any Batman movie and so on. |
| Favorite music | Primus, Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, AC/DC, Creedence Clearwater Revival, CAKE, Johnny Cash, Queen, Martina McBride, Flogging Molly, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tool, Weezer, Alanis Morissette, Reel Big Fish, Bob Dylan, Dolphin City, the Doors, Eagles, the Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age, a Fine Frenzy, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Grateful Dead, Linda Eder, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, the Lonely Island, Thin Lizzy, Melissa Etheridge, Neverband, Nirvana, Rush, Smashing Pumpkins, Them Crooked Vultures, Van Halen, the White Stripes, Wolfmother, and many more. |
| Favorite books | Heidi, Zorba the Greek, Picture of Dorian Gray, Brave New World, I am a Bunny, As I Lay Dying, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Wrinkle in Time, the Outsiders, Catch 22, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Charlotte's Web, When the Emperor Was Divine, Animal Farm, and many more. |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
Clay is a general term including many combinations of one or more clay minerals with traces of metal oxides and organic matter. Geologic clay deposits are mostly composed of phyllosilicate minerals containing variable amounts of water trapped in the mineral structure.