PROXIMITY AGGRADATION

 

Proximity Aggradation

It has not escaped me that my life mimics stratigraphy.  The Observation: The piles in my office are taller the closer they lie to my computer and where I sit.   This observation, I have termed proximity aggradation – it is defined as “a process, where by aggradation will be more intense  the closer a site is to the source material”, in this case me.

My office. Do not judge me.

Proximity and thickness of a pile are certainly not a measure of quality.  The material is not more valuable if it is more proximal.  To the contrary, I actually think that composite value of a pile grows as it moves further away from the source.  The material in the largest piles (ie., closest to your computer and you) is just more recent.  Often these thick aggradational piles are stratified oldest to youngest. At some point the thick, proximal pile will be “reworked”, “sorted” and “redistributed” in to piles further from the source, and at that point the more distal piles are actually possibly of better quality.

At some point, the distal piles will be examined for meaning and redistributed in to the trash if they are found useless.  Sometimes they are reworked and relocated more proximal. (second cycle!)  This continual movement of piles to more proximal locations might be a form of transgressive reworking but I am not ready to go there yet.

Mountain Pig out.