Quotes About Geology

The Ozarks are old and worn mountains from the geological past.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.

That burning lava is miles deep," said Nancy. "Its temperature is over seventeen hundred degrees Fahrenheit.

on my right Baker Creek has cut a steep-banked gash into the badlands to the west.

hydrothermal

Darwin's mind had been profoundly shaped by Lyell's understanding of the deep time of geological transformation, but standing on the beach, watching the breakers crash against the coral, he knows that his mentor is wrong about the origin of the atolls. It is not a story of simple geology, he realizes. It is a story about the innovative persistence of life.

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying to imagine human existence as it must have been with only stone-age technology.

Habían llegado a una cueva. Tras los primeros sondeos, la arenisca había dado paso a una vena caliza comanchiense llena de diminutos fósiles de cefalópodos, corales, equinoideos y spirifera, con indicios ocasionales de esponjas silíceas y huesos de vertebrados marinos —probablemente de teleósteos, tiburones y ganoideos—

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

The cities of the eastern American fall line are well known today—Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Fredericksburg, Philadelphia—even though the part that the very similar accidents of geology and river behavior played in their origins may have been long forgotten.

It may be said that, so far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life—sensation, instinct, the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering on reason, and lastly, the improvable reason of Man himself—presents us with a picture of the ever-increasing dominion of mind over matter.

My father's theory… was defined by a hasty press as being this—that God hid the fossils in the rocks in order to tempt geologists into infidelity.

earthquake P-waves had reportedly been made with microphones

I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.

What we were concerned about—what seems to be happening now—is volcanoes

Annals of the Former World—a

I'll sing you a ditty that needs no apology-- Attend, and keep watch in the gates of your ears!-- Of the famous new science which men call Geology, And gods call the story of millions of years.

supervolcano

The Lake is young as natural lakes go, no more than four thousand years old, and it is simpler to say what did not form it than to say what did.

There was the granite, left by Paleozoic volcanoes more than three hundred million years ago, that formed what geologists call the fall line, a long, east-facing cliff in the river's jagged middle that prevented tall sailing ships or dugout canoes from passing further upstream, setting the stage for the creation of an even broader cultural divide and laying the groundwork for the building of a rough-hewn trading depot that grew into the city of Richmond.

You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.