Day: 2013-03-16

For the Next Trip, Celebes Anyone ?

Office is in HPHT condition 🙂 But enough for today, let’s prepare for the next journey. I knew holiday won’t be easy for this year, we are in drilling mode, when everything is uncertain, everything is postponed, the plan is no plan. But I do have a commitment with my best friends and family to travel with them to celebrate my daughter’s birthday. As usual, an annual birthday trip like we have been doing since 2010. Cici is turning 4 this July and due to the Ramadhan we gonna postponed the trip to August. The next destination is Celebes. Celebes or Sulawesi, this island shape is unique and easily recognizable with four spindly arms spinning outward, the K island. What I remember from my Geotectonic lecture was about the subduction, collision, obduction and movement. The volcanoes and the fault systems, the island is complex. J.A. Katili in his book said that the evolution of Sulawesi started in Miocene time or even earlier. Miocene in geologic time scale is about 23 – 5 m.ya (as a comparison, the age of Homo …