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Geology
Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change. Geology can also refer generally to the study of the solid features of any celestial body (such as the geology of the Moon or Mars).
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Considering chickens alone, their fossils may be a marker for the Anthropocene. The body size and body shape of today’s “broiler chickens” are distinct from that of wild fowl of their early twentieth-century cousins. Their worldwide distribution and massive population size will probably ensure that they will be well represented in the future fossil record. Future geologists might use a “chicken signal” to indicate that the strata they are examining are close to the start of the Anthropocene.
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― How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America
― How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America
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No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive
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― An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas
― An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas
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