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Copyright & contact:
Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me at mail.geoverse@gmail.com if you'd like to use any of the poems.Thanks:
With thanks to my sources of inspiration: my wife and her Open University books; Horsham Geological Field Club, its speakers and field trips; my son for sharing his internet space; and, er, well, life, really.
Author Archives: GJ
Spring into action
Try this at home Continue reading
Centrifugal false
A myth is slain Continue reading
The middle way
A creative tension Continue reading
Getting together
How the Kingdom became United Continue reading
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Tagged Avalonia, Geology, Gondwana, Iapetus, Laurentia, Plate tectonics
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Earthquakes have no morals
The backside of life’s rich tapestry Continue reading
Charmouth’s revenge
A cautionary tale Continue reading
Wavicles
Waves, particles, or what? Continue reading
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Tagged Electrons, Equations, Photons, Physics, Quantum mechanics, Schrödinger
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Schrödinger’s dog
Canine revenge Continue reading
Schrödinger’s cat
Cat-in-a-box Continue reading
Cosmic conundrum
Shedding light on a problem Continue reading
Millennium ark
Noah updated Continue reading
Nicolaus Steno
Danish common sense Continue reading
Red-hot
The rise of granite Continue reading
Confusion
Beyond Descartes Continue reading
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Tagged Brain, Descartes (René), Dreams, Reality, Senses, Thinking
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Guy’s rock
Dolomite Continue reading
Cat-astrophic!
Cuvier’s catastrophism Continue reading
Newton’s Fourth Law
Good advice Continue reading
Flossie
An insect in amber Continue reading
An old pair of genes
Beware extinct nomeclature Continue reading
Flood basalts
Mass extinctions Continue reading
Earth
An early geological discovery Continue reading
Volcanics
A volcano’s gut feelings Continue reading
Time’s passed
Getting your head round geological time-scales Continue reading
Listening in
Plate tectonics and educated whales Continue reading
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Tagged Geology, Open University, Plate tectonics, Subduction, Whales
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Burrows
A trace fossil Continue reading
On the shelf
Continental shelves Continue reading
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Tagged Continental shelves, Geology, Pangaea, Plate tectonics, Selsey Bill
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A grazing trace
Tracks and trails Continue reading
The plumber of Kimmeridge
A private collection Continue reading
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Tagged Etches (Steve), Fossil collecting, Geologists, Geology, Kimmeridge
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Flint
How to make it Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Flint, Geology, Mortimore (Rory), Peacehaven, Rocks
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Chalk talk
An alga speaks Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Coccoliths, Fossils, Geology, Mortimore (Rory), Peacehaven, Rhymes
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Poor Doris
Echinocoris scutata Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Echinocorys, Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Mortimore (Rory), Peacehaven
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Memoirs
Dinosaur extinction explained, possibly Continue reading
Pianorganists
A not-so-rare hybrid Continue reading
A touch of class
Ammonites Continue reading
Netted
New on the Net Continue reading
Sightless symbiosis
Tube worms (Light? Who needs it?) Continue reading
The oxygen thermometer
Palaeoclimates Continue reading
Oyster’s end
Gryphaea dilatata Continue reading
Sue
A reconstructed Tyrannosaurus Rex Continue reading
Geo Supplies
A manual for classroom revolution Continue reading
Hammer of the South
some have power thrust upon them Continue reading
Anon
A fossil pleads to be found Continue reading
The meaning of life
Offaster pilula Continue reading
Fame
. . . could be yours Continue reading
Ravages of time
The age of man that Shakespeare missed Continue reading
Gordon’s garden
Evidence for fossil redistribution Continue reading
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Tagged Arun (River), Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Personal, Points of view
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Time flies
A problem solved Continue reading
A lunar aversion module
Life on the mooon? No thanks! Continue reading
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Tagged Anorthosite, Armalcolite, Astronomy, Geology (lunar), KREEP, Moon, Mullard Space Science Laboratory
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Luvaduck!
Dr. Johann Beringer Continue reading
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Tagged Beringer (Johann), Geologists, Geology, Lügensteine ("lying stones")
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Black smoker
A hydrothermal vent structure Continue reading
Agassiz
“Father of Glaciology” Continue reading
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Tagged Agassiz (Jean Louis Rodolphe), Geologists, Geology, Ice Ages
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Granite – a tor story
Looking back on life as a hot rock Continue reading
Gordon’s garden again
Pedological redistribution Continue reading
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Tagged Clay, Fossil collecting, Gardening, Geology, Personal, Points of view, Sandstone, Tunbridge Wells Sand
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