Top Ten Signs You Might Be A Geologist:

10. You have ever had to respond "yes" to the question, "What have you got
in here, rocks?"

9. You have ever taken a 15-passenger van over "roads" that were really
intended only for cattle

8. You have ever found yourself trying to explain to airport security that
a rock hammer isn't really a weapon

7. Your rock garden is located inside your house

6. You have ever hung a picture using a Brunton as a level, and your rock hammer as your hammer

5. Your collection of beer cans and/or bottles rivals the size of your rock collection

4. You consider a "recent event" to be anything that has happened in the
last hundred thousand years

3. Your photos include people only for scale and you have more pictures of
your rock hammer and lens cap than of your family

2. You have ever been on a field trip that included scheduled stops at a
gravel pit and/or a liquor store


1. You have ever uttered the phrase "have you tried licking it" with no
sexual connotations involved

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Two Geologists are walking across a granite outcrop one day. The first says
to the second "Hey, this terrain is unmetamorphosed". Replies the second
one, "No Schist".

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Ode to Olivine in Thin Section, a poem by Brenna Lorenz


In basalt a lurid green
Bespeaks the savage olivine;
Mantle's child, born of fire,
Restless in the open air,
Little beads of anger bear
The torture of desire.

Silica upon its face
It suffers, helpless, in disgrace,
Its powers of reaction bound
By solid's bond and cage,
In agony confined to rage
Unstable and unsound.

Its birefringent power plays
The sifted light to rare displays;
The haunting, primal colors tell
Of fire and fury's flag unfurled,
Flag of fluid, nether world,
Beneath the fragile shell.

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Geology: where subduction always leads to orogeny!

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And here is a funny geolink

http://www.volcanolive.com/murphy.html

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