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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.
Tag Archives: Geology
Enigmatic
The dictionary says ‘enigmatic’ means ‘ambiguous, obscure or perplexing’. It’s what some researchers prefer to call the large boulders of ‘foreign’ rock that turn up around areas of ancient glacial or periglacial activity, such as the West Sussex coastal plain … Continue reading
In them thar hills
Don’t raise your hopes! Continue reading
On the fate of a Plate
It is no more, it is an ex-Plate. Continue reading
The pressure-pulse hypothesis
An ominously unfinished report from long ago. Continue reading
True blue?
Can this blue mineral really do what some claim? Continue reading
Edie Acaran
Your view of things depends on where you’re looking from. Continue reading
Agates are like people
It’s what’s inside that counts . . . Continue reading
Tragedies of Aberfan
The tip slide was one; the failure to heed the knowledge of the past sufficiently was another. Continue reading
London underground
A geologist’s picnic Continue reading
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Tagged Faults (geological), Geologists, Geology, London Clay, Venus
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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
Font
Where you can’t see the wood for the boulders. Continue reading
Geoarchaeology
The benefits of combining ’ologies. 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
Scratching the surface
The Earth is not impressed . . . Continue reading
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Tagged Earth, Geology, Ignorance, Plate tectonics, Seismic surveys, Stratigraphy
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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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Hell’s Kitchen
If you’re an oil shale, you need to have been there. Continue reading
How Saint George lost his Land
Down, but not out Continue reading
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Tagged Earthquakes, Geology, Pangaea, Plate tectonics, St. George's Land
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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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Paludina
Beware of imitations Continue reading
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Tagged Building stones, Fossils, Geology, Paludina, Sussex Marble
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New Titanomyrmaland
A Queen’s royal progress Continue reading
Glendonite
A technique for dedicated geologists only Continue reading
A girl’s best friend?
And more. . . Continue reading
Whodunit?
The case of the ex-Period Continue reading
Stratford-upon-Bytham
What’s in a name? Continue reading
Chondrules
A hint of ancient provenance Continue reading
Dora the borer
Penetrating polydora Continue reading
Oh, I wish I could keep all me teeth
Easy come, easy go Continue reading
Horsham Clay
Let’s call a spade a spade Continue reading
Ice and fire
A message from below Continue reading
The Bubnoff
Units of immortality Continue reading
SHRIMP-date your zircon
Zircons aren’t forever Continue reading
Hilton’s highlights
For Gentlemen only Continue reading
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Tagged Buildings, Cyanobacteria, Fossils, Geology, Sandstone, Stromatolites
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Quinquelocalina
Little things save a lot Continue reading
Forever amber
Petrified sunlight! Continue reading
The good old London Clay
A capital material! Continue reading
Darwin’s trouble
A geologist’s affliction Continue reading
No sex, please
Ostracods can do it hemaphroditically Continue reading
Old iron
In fact, very old iron. . . Continue reading
Google-earthing
Following the Arun Continue reading
It’s a turbidite’s life
In deep water Continue reading
Frozen in time
Dorset’s coastal heritage Continue reading
The building stones of Sussex
Like Sussex people Continue reading
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Tagged Building stones, Chalk, Dinosaurs, Geology, Horsham Stone, Limestone, Rocks, Sandstone, Sussex Marble, Sussex people
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The Baggeridge way
Congealed in the Weald Continue reading
Small wonders
Little gems Continue reading
Meteoritic SOS
An alien voice Continue reading
The Great man-made River
It’s big in Libya Continue reading
Lite bites
A grand day out? Continue reading
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Tagged Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, SSSIs (Sites of Special Scientific Interest)
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Owain’s bird
A bird in the sand is worth telling your parents about Continue reading
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Tagged Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Pterosaurs, Wight (Isle of)
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In Mary Anning’s footsteps
An ichthyosaurial tour Continue reading
Widgiemoolthalite
Would you adamite and eveite it? Continue reading
Hostile coexistence
A stone-age argument Continue reading
No way
Here yesterday, gone today Continue reading
The Pompeii worm
Some like it hot Continue reading
Rory’s Chalk
A finely divided lithography Continue reading
Flight-ready
One small step for. . . 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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Triarthrus
Symbiotic boredom Continue reading
Sussex marble
A local speciality Continue reading
Seismic saviour
How to find oil and gas – possibly Continue reading
The Neanderthal way
Exposed in Norfolk Continue reading
Firm foundations
Advice to building designers Continue reading
A rainy day in Southerham Grey
Fossilin’ in the rain Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Geology, Geology fieldwork, SSSIs (Sites of Special Scientific Interest)
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The fossil digger’s song
A ‘coprolite industry’ anthem Continue reading
Dawn tyrant
Quills and thrills Continue reading
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Tagged Dinosaurs, Eotyrannus, Evolution, Feathers, Fossils, Geology
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The sincerest form of flattery
Screwed up Continue reading
Home and colonial
A modular lifestyle Continue reading
A Horsham Stone roof
A stoney dome Continue reading
Fault lines
Pride comes before a fall Continue reading
Earth to Mars. . .
Facing up to the Red Planet Continue reading
Rest in Peacehavem
Ammonitic foresight Continue reading
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Tagged Ammonites, Fossils, Geology, Peacehaven, SSSIs (Sites of Special Scientific Interest)
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Sexual dimorphism
It can be fun! Continue reading
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Tagged Evolution, Fossils, Geology, Mollistephanus, Sexual dimorphism, Stephanoceras
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Oolite
Say it right Continue reading
The hole
Paradise lost Continue reading
Martian methane
Where could it have come from? Continue reading
Obsession
I can give it up at any time Continue reading
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Tagged Ammonites, Belemnites, Damsel flies, Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Gryphaea dilatata, Pebbles
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GBH
A Sussex fossil finder Continue reading
Shark ark
How to survive Continue reading
The ingenious petrologist
A misunderstood breed? Continue reading
Crystal Alice
Nothing new under the sun? Continue reading
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Tagged Bragg's Law, Christopher Robin and Alice, Crystal Palace, Crystal structure, Geology, Rocks
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Sorry!
I’ve cracked it! Continue reading
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Tagged Amateurs, Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Hammer (geological), Wight (Isle of)
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Opabinia
A tribute to an ancient beauty Continue reading
Damsel in distress
The Big Question Continue reading
Plate tectonics
To Hell and back Continue reading
Plate tectonics – an alternative hypothesis
A paradigm shift? Continue reading
Pikaia
Greetings to an ancestor Continue reading
The fossil record
Have you heard it? Continue reading
Tethys
An early case of downsizing Continue reading
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Tagged Cyprus, Geology, Gondwana, Laurasia, Moho (Mohorovicic Discontinuity), Plate tectonics, Tethys ocean, Tibet
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Selsey Bill
The Midas touch Continue reading
Iggy
A dumbed-down Iguanodon Continue reading
The hunter’s cry
Another cautionary tale Continue reading
Motivation
A second Moses Continue reading
Ageology
How not to lie about your age Continue reading
Why?
A good question Continue reading
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Tagged Ammonites, Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Points of view
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