Quotes About Geology

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Earth, for example, is made up of oxygen (almost 50 percent) and smaller amounts of iron (19 percent), silicon (14 percent), magnesium (12.5 percent)

early twentieth century seemed to see what was coming. In 1873, Italian geologist Antonio Stoppani proposed that the growing influence of humans was causing the "Anthropozoic era," but this was largely ignored by scientists of his day. In 1877, physiologist Joseph LeConte described a similar concept, calling it the Psychozoic era. In the 1920s the French Jesuit priest Tielhard de Chardin spoke of

Earth would stand out as strange and perturbed, with something in the air that geology and chemistry alone could not explain, with some huge ongoing, active chemical disturbance.

Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.

Too many rocks in the mountains.

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

To geologists, it's death, taxes, and climate change that are the true constants of life on Earth.

the real importance of the Darwinian revolution was that Darwin, completing what Lyell had already begun in geology, brought history into science.

We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.

As a young planet, Venus was losing hydrogen rapidly to space. The oceans boiled off, and after some period of time, perhaps 600 million years, there was no surface water.

WorldView-3 goes into the mid-infrared wavelength, allowing you to see very subtle geological differences on the sites at a 0.4-metre resolution.

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

Clearly the world wasn't as natural as we had always assumed. Someone or something had designed it, a joker perhaps, or if geology really was responsible, then blind physical forces had no less a sense of humour than the gods, which is not implausible.

Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn Jr

Trilobites survived for a total of three hundred million years, almost the whole duration of the Palaeozoic era:

And there is an earlier Wilson cycle, too, a billion years old, entrapped alongside the Appalachians: the Grenville, which rises to the surface in Central Park, New York, to remind us that the human and urban is no more than foam on the sea of the past.

Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night

He calls it speleogenesis by elephants—the creation of a cave by elephants.

Italy Is Made of Tuff Stuff

Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.