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Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me at email.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.
Tag Archives: Geologists
London underground
A geologist’s picnic Continue reading
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Tagged Faults (geological), Geologists, Geology, London Clay, Venus
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Oh! Mister Porter
A dastardly deed at Crewe . . . Continue reading
When continents collide
At the Open University, Dr. Clare Warren researches what happens to rocks when continents collide. Keep a lookout for Clare, Dice with her if you dare! Continental collision’s her scene: What is burial’s relation To rude exhumation? (Of rocks metamorphic, … Continue reading
A Jurassic Coastal Lady
Mary Anning, recognised Continue reading
Fishing nets and Cornish pasties
A pair of wacky analogies Continue reading
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Tagged Buckman (Sydney Savory), Geologists, Geology, Stratigraphy
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On the naming of dung-stones
The geologist, mineralogist, and determinedly eccentric Reverend Willam Buckland (1784–1856) was the first to give a name to a type of fossil about which his colleague, Dr. William Wollaston, believed Georgian England would probably have preferred not to talk. You’ll … Continue reading
Boring Chalk
For a tunneller, certain Chalk strata have undesirable characteristics, such as the presence of hard flints or sand-like phosphatic chalk. Tunnelling is expensive, but so are delays and damage to tunnel boring machines which hit unexpected geology. So engineers planning … Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Geologists, Geology, Ignorance, Mortimore (Rory), Stratigraphy
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Paradigm lost
You can stretch an interpretation of the evidence just so far . . . Continue reading
Bracklesham Bay
Or David Bone’s Bay? Continue reading
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Tagged Bracklesham Bay, Fossils, Geologists, Geology, Geology fieldwork, Limericks
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Darwin’s trouble
A geologist’s affliction Continue reading
Rory’s Chalk
A finely divided lithography Continue reading
Old Father Thames and the pebble counters
Clast lithological analysis Continue reading
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Tagged Clast lithological analysis, Geologists, Geology, Pebbles, Rivers, Thames
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GBH
A Sussex fossil finder Continue reading
The ingenious petrologist
A misunderstood breed? Continue reading
Nicolaus Steno
Danish common sense Continue reading
Guy’s rock
Dolomite Continue reading
Cat-astrophic!
Cuvier’s catastrophism 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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Luvaduck!
Dr. Johann Beringer Continue reading
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Tagged Beringer (Johann), Geologists, Geology, Lügensteine ("lying stones")
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Agassiz
“Father of Glaciology” Continue reading
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Tagged Agassiz (Jean Louis Rodolphe), Geologists, Geology, Ice Ages
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