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".
Q: What do you call a can of pop found in a conglomerate?
A: Coca-Cola Clastic
People at parties will *not* get these jokes.
Thats ok, because "Igneous is bliss"
Let's not forget Sherlock Holmes:
Watson: Holmes! What kind of rock is this!
Holmes: Sedimentary, my dear Watson.
Those are not gneiss jokes.
Q: What do you call a can of pop found in a conglomerate?
A: Coca-Cola Clastic
Ah, jokes for the "rock-it" scientists.
In keeping with the spirit of layoffs and downsizing that permiate the oil
industry I might add: How many petroleum geologists does it take to screw
in a lightbulb?
Just one, but hundreds will apply for the job. ( Kurt Reisser)
Yes, but at least we didn't take these "gneiss" jokes for "granite."
How about some slogans:
Geologists enjoy Nappes between thrusts!
Ease up! It's nodody's fault!
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^
The Clinton Administration has renamed it Ronald Reagan's Fault.
Don't put the karst before the horst.
If there at a campus party, they'll be too stoned.
During a heated discussion Opal screamed at Amber, telling her that not
only was she not a jewel but she wasn't even a mineral.
"Is that so," Amber snorted, stating flatly that Opal had no cleavage.
"Perhaps so," replied Opal, "but at least I'm not just organic ooze with
bugs - I'm pristine, white, and smooth."
"That's tuff," said Amber, secreting with rage.--- Jan Cecil
Just watch out for cleavage on your bedding.....
Ease up! It's nodody's fault!
A geology phrase with innuendo from my days at Carleton College:
"Meet me behind the outcrop, honey, I'm a little boulder there".
So many beds, so little time
Bonnie Dalzell writes: When I was a Paleontology student at Berkeley
Our slogan was:
"Help support the Laramide Revolution"
"Help them throw off the oppressive overburden of North America!'
Remember that this was the mid 1960's
"Reunite Gondwanaland" bumper stickers were available for a while
Francis Birch, Journal of Geophysical Research, v57, no2, 227-286, 1952:
"Unwary Readers should take warning that ordinary language undergoes
modification to a high-pressure form when applied to the interior of
the Earth; a few examples of equivalents follow:
High-pressure form: Ordinary meaning:
certain dubious
undoubtedly perhaps
positive proof vague suggestion
unanswerable argument trivial objection
pure iron incertain mixture of all the elements"
Elmer Bataitis
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