Quotes About Geology

Worsley identified the tallest of the peaks as Mount Percy on Joinville Island off the very tip of the Palmer Peninsula.

Our history is written in our rocks just as surely as it is in monastic chronicles, census returns or the stones and bones of archaeological

It's always snowing at the south pole of Enceladus.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Marble is not alike in all countries.

His explanation takes two minutes exactly. The shale lies a mile underground, has lain there since before there was a Pennsylvania, before a single human being walked the earth.

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.

Bones and rocks are eloquent storytellers, if you know how to listen to them.

Stalactites." Sara swept her flashlight beam over the floor. "And stalagmites, too." "I can never remember the difference." "Just remember C for ceiling, G for ground.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.