Qfl247
Fighting the good fight, making Wikipedia more geonerdy.

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Name	Matt Affolter
Born	September 3, 1980 Ridgecrest, CA
Country	USA
Current location	Salt Lake City, UT
Time zone	Mountain Time Zone
Ethnicity	Chosen
Race	Whitesican
Height	5.5'
Weight	Festively Plump
Hair	brown (top of head), red (bottom of head)
Eyes	baggy
Blood type	Tasty
Sexuality	Perverted
Family and friends
Marital status	I live in Utah...
Spouse	Rosanna, Roxanne, Michelle, Allison, Sarah, Angie, Brandy, Mandy, Gloria, Cecilia, Maggie May, Jessica, Nancy, Barbara Ann, Billie Jean, Lola, Polly, Helena, Jenny from the Block
Girlfriend	sure
Boyfriend	no thnaks
Children	I have two.....
Education and employment
Occupation	Rock-licker
Education	B.S. (geology), UCLA, 2002; M.S. (geology), University of Montana, 2004; M.A. (teaching, secondary education-earth systems), University of Utah, 2007
High school	Sylmar (CA)
College	Los Angeles Mission College
University	UCLA Bruins, Montana Grizzlies, Utah Utes
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Hobbies	Rock Collecting, playing bass guitar, destroying my thumbs
Religion	n/a
Politics	Liberal-leaning independent
Aliases	QFL24-7, rooney
Interests
Geology Sedimentary geology Optical mineralogy Sandstone Volcanic lithic fragments Groundwater hydrology of West-central Utah Proterozoic sedimentology Snowball Earth (total BS) Mongolia East Gobi Shear Zone stats Miami Dolphins since 1993 UCLA Bruins athletics since 1998 Music in all its glorious ways, shapes, sizes, styles, techniques, life, complexity, fancy, hilarity, & forms Eating Drinking schmoozing
Contact info
Website	http://www.mattaffolter.com
Blog	http://www.qfl247.com
Email	here
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Userboxen This user was born on the third of September, a day I'll always remember.... 2,500+ This user has made more than 2,500 contributions to Wikipedia. 48 This user has created 48 of Wikipedia's 6,940,635 articles. This user has uploaded 93 images to Wikipedia. 16Y IP address This user supports mandatory registration. This user is an atheist and fears that religion might have a scary effect on societies. This user is straight but not narrow. According to The Political Compass this user is: Economic Left (−3.12) and Social Libertarian (−3.79) C2H5OH-0 This user is a non-drinker. This user is a geoscientist or is specializing in geoscience. This user is a participant in WikiProject Geology. UC This user is a member of WikiProject University of California This user is a participant in WikiProject Utah. This user participates in the Southern California task force. This user is a member of WikiProject Mongols. This user is a participant in WikiProject Albums. This user is a member of WikiProject Lego. This user is a member of WikiProject Protected Areas. This user has visited 25 of the 59 National Parks in the United States. 25 MS This user has a Master of Science degree. MA This user has a Master of Arts degree. 3° This user has three academic degrees. UCLA This user is an alum of UCLA. Go Bruins! This user attends or attended the University of Montana. This user attends or has attended The University of Utah. MIA This user is a Miami Dolphins fan. LAA This user is a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim fan. This user enjoys Psychobilly. This user is a Nirvana fan. This user enjoys Johann Sebastian Bach's music. N This user is a NOFX fan. This user loves The Beatles. her? This user is a fan of Arrested Development. PULP This user does not think Marsellus Wallace looks like a bitch. Jagshemash! This user likes Borat. This user enjoys playing Magic: The Gathering VI This user feels that Final Fantasy VI was the last great Final Fantasy. This user knows by heart the first 14 digits in the decimal representation of pi. The Jungle This user is a Clone. TDS This user watches the most trusted name in fake news.

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Sandbox... but what kind of sand?

• East Gobi Shear Zone
• Point-counting
• Marjum Canyon
• Piercing point
• v:Sedimentology, v:Petrology, v:Plate Tectonics, etc. - Start pages (and all its subpages) on Wikiversity

• Belt Supergroup
• Sandstone
• Lithic Fragment (geology)
• Rock fragment
• Notch Peak
• Sedimentary Rock
• Snake Valley (Great Basin)
• Optical mineralogy
• Dalanzadgad
• Ramón Ayala
• Grito Mexicano
• Rock formations in the United States
• Altyn Tagh Fault
• q:John Wooden
• Orocopia Mountains

• Ridgecrest, CA
• Los Angeles, CA
• Burbank, CA
• Sylmar, CA
• Westwood, Los Angeles, CA
• Missoula, MT
• Salt Lake City, UT

• Pioche, NV
• Dalanzadgad, Mongolia/Gobi Desert[1]
• Border, UT
• Ashland, OR
• Puerto Penasco, Mexico[2]

• New York, NY
• Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• Florence, Italy[3]
• Bejing, China
• Seoul, South Korea
• Nashville, TN/Knoxville, TN[4]
• Naples, Italy[5]
• Miami, FL
• Philadelphia, PA
• Bloomington, IN/Indianapolis, IN
• Seattle, WA
• Venice, Italy[6]
• Carlsbad Caverns/Guadalupe Mountains National Park[7]
• Badlands National Park/Devils Tower National Monument/Wind Cave National Park/Mount Rushmore

• Mount St. Helens (summit and crater)
• Wheeler Peak (Nevada) (12th highest in the lower 48)
• North Kaibab Trail, Grand Canyon National Park
• Mount Vesuvius
• Lassen Peak (on 9/11)
• Impromptu 12 mile night hike in the Gobi
• Impromptu 6 hour day hike on the third of September, near the Trona Pinnacles
• Impromptu 5 mile hike on Laurel Canyon Boulevard over the Santa Monica Mountains

• Banff National Park/Burgess Shale/Yoho National Park/Canadian Rockies area
• Dinosaur National Monument (after it is fixed)
• New Zealand
• Alaska
• Hawaii
• Mount Rainier/Olympic National Park/North Cascades National Park
• Hot Springs National Park
• Mesa Verde/Great Sand Dunes National Park/So Colorado area
• Redwood National Park/Lava Beds National Monument
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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• First edit[8] - Image upload
• Second edit[9] - Add above image to Notch Peak
• Third edit (1.5 years later, first actual edit)[10] - clarify definition of Greywacke on Sandstone page
• First page creation[11] - After discovering the Lithic page was all Archeology, had to make the geology definition...
• First silliness[12] - Very humble start to user page
• Second picture[13] - From my li'l ol' thesis!
• First non-geology edits[14][15] - Upload of Live Noise album cover image and album info
• First edit with edit summary[16] - yeah, that's me
• First revert[17] - oops... the old college try...
• First Wikifight[18] - Go Sylmar!
• 1000th edit[19] - Create page for Akeem Ayers, OLB for UCLA, fresh off of his MVP in the 2009 EagleBank Bowl
• First Vandalism (on my stuff)[20] - I don't care where you live!
• 2000th edit[21] - Great Basin category for Confusion Range
• First edit w/fancy sig (QFL 24-7 ^{bla bla bla ¤ cntrb ¤ kids ¤ pics}) [22] -UCLAesque, don't you think?

		The Special Barnstar
		For your recent contributions of images to various geology articles. Abyssal (talk) 19:21, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

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