Quotes About Geology

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

connoisseurs of geologic form

Iceland straddles a rip in the earth's mantle, and the two plates riven through the land are slowly pulling it apart, at the speed of fingernail growth. There

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

angle of repose," which means the angle at which dirt and pebbles stop rolling.

Rocks are the key to Earth history, because solids remember but liquids and gases forget.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism, but their people seem to be able to get on with their work without worrying unduly. Only Darwinians seem thrown into a frenzy that sends them running to litigation and demanding censorship. His explanation was that it's a rival religion.

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

ma chère penchons sur les filons géologiques (my dear let us lean on geographical veins)

There's a spot over Lake Superior where migrating butterflies veer sharply. No one understood why they made such a quick turn at that specific place until a geologist finally made the connection: a mountain rose out of the water in that exact location thousands of years ago. These butterflies and their offspring can still remember a mass they've never seen,

And should biologic time run out and some plastics remain, there is always geologic time. "The upheavals and pressure will change it into something else. Just like trees buried in bogs a long time ago—the geologic process, not biodegradation, changed them into oil and coal. Maybe high concentrations of plastics will turn into something like that. Eventually, they will change. Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.

When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.

Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

I have a conflicted view on beer styles. As historical artifacts, they're endlessly fascinating to study. And I think that they generally represent confluences -- and compromises -- of technology, agriculture, cuisine, and geology that make the most of what a region has to offer. That means existing styles are usually quite wonderful to drink, and I'm all for that.

We were very surprised to find out that Pluto is still geologically alive. It has upended our ideas of how planetary geophysics works.

Up high, biology vanishes to reveal a world shaped by the starker forces of geology and meteorology, the bare bones of the earth wrapped in sky.

So, although the debate about the origins of bipedalism is full of detailed descriptions of hip joints and foot bones and geologic dating methods, it is ultimately about sex, landscape, and thinking.

If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worse than ignorant, they are deluded to the point of perversity. They are denying not only the facts of biology but those of physics, geology, cosmology, archaeology, history and chemistry as well.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.