University of Maryland
Geology Club
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"Hey Bart, I fixed my rock tumbler! Whaddaya say we turn this baby loose on some feldspar?"
Milhouse (The Simpsons)
"That would be cool if the Earth's crust was made out of graham cracker. It would disappear just like the ozone layer, but for completely different reasons."
Mitch Hedberg
'It doesn’t matter that you don’t understand them. Even they are not sure if they are making sense. Their purpose is trying to. Everyone is crowded in. The science selects these people – with their jeans and boots and scuffed leather field cases and hats of railroad engineers. To them, just being out here is in no small measure what it’s all about. “The three key things in this science are travel, travel, travel,” one says. “Geology is legitimized tourism.”'
John McPhee on geologists
Annals of the Former World: In Suspect Terrain
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Because geologists know how to make the bedrock.
Because subduction leads to orogeny.
Because Mineralogists look for cleavage.
Because Structural Geologists like to rotate beds.
You can’t fault a good thrust!
Because geologists have their schist together.
Because it's hammer time.
Because we don't take everything for granite.
Because we're gneiss, tuff, and a little wacke.
Because there are so many horrible geology puns that it hurts.
Because we love geology and you should too!
(If you don’t love geology, Upper Jurassic!)
The Geology Club Does Not Condone Prostitution.
The Real Ultimate Power of Geologists
Last Updated: September 16, 2008
©2006 Susan Drymala