*Elmer Fudd Voice* Be Vewwy, Vewwy, Quiet, I'm Hunting Geowogists

“we only have bones as evidence so every scientist is just guessing stuff, right?” 🤨

Trying to reorganize my rock collection on my shelf by how much I want the specific rocks to be displayed. The problem is that I'm a geology major and I love all of them

#in my mineralogy class we had a slideshow presentation about which rocks were dangerous to put in your mouth #there were test questions based on this

hey

what do you think about geology

rocks taste good

You have GOT to be kidding me. They will just name volcanoes anything.

Perks about learning German is that it makes geology terms so easy to understand

Fenster = window; literally a term we use for erosion or tectonics revealing lower beds

Augen = eye; also literally used to describe eye/almond shaped mineral grains in metamorphic rocks like gneiss (which I learned is also a German word).

Lagerstätte(n) = bed, deposit, directly translates to "storage place"; sedimentary beds with excellently preserved fossils. Actually had to look up the meaning as I took only one class and knew what "stätte" meant.

Inselberg = island mountain; an isolated ridge surrounded by a flat plain or pediment

If you know French, geomorphology is gonna be an easy one. Rouche moutonnée, cirque, arête, lacustrine... those are the ones I know off the top of my head.

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

Daily affirmations for Paleontologists and people of similar professions: You CAN create a video tapping rocks/artifacts whispering "paleontology/(your field of study here)" I believe in you

It's not even clear here🥲🥲😭