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Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me if you'd like to use any of the poems. Email: geoverse@hotmail.co.ukThanks:
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: Stratigraphy
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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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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Whodunit?
The case of the ex-Period Continue reading
Horsham Clay
Let’s call a spade a spade Continue reading
Nicolaus Steno
Danish common sense Continue reading
An old pair of genes
Beware extinct nomeclature Continue reading