Mineralogist Gifts

Georgius Agricola: "My interest in gold was enhanced.greatly...help me as I go prospecting in the wilds."

'Why didn't he take 8 days and finish the job properly?'

Another long day down at the Bureau of Earthquake Prediction.

Rare earths are the key to a greenwashed, technotopian future

Natural Disasters

"Babe, I'm gonna leave you... It may take a few eons, but I am definitely gonna leave you..."

'According to creation mathematicians, all of Euclid's theories were originally found etched into rocks.'

Scientists are sexy

A 'Falling Rock' and a 'Deer Crossing' zone.

"Look, Professor - a stegosaurus!"

"Admit it, we're lost."

'The good news is we've discovered a vast new oil resource. The bad news is we need a space ship to get there.'

'I say we invade and secure all those renewable resources.'

Rock - see you in a million years!

Water is discovered on the moon....

'Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest algologist of all?'

"Diamonds are so three billion years ago..."

The Tectonics and Their Plates.

Old Geologists Never Die...they just switch to soft rock.

'This rift between you and Dr. Voight has become a chasm.'

"Over millions of years, carbon turns to diamond. Yet it took dad plus his grill mere minutes to turn last night's marinated chicken into that carbon."

"I learned ridin', I learned cowpokin' and I learned how to eat and sleep under the stars. But, dag nab it, I never learned any geology."

"So, Mr Canary, I see you have experience as a mine safety specialist..."

"Have you tried carbon dating?"

'...And they're giving us sixty million years to get in compliance.'

Stratigraphy

'Let's call him lucky!'

'This cave is really damp... and squidgy underfoot'

"I get the strange feeling this has happened before."

Will you be mine?

"I put my faith in coal. Because there’s no fuel like an old fuel."

Meanwhile, back on planet earth...Greenland's ice sheet is melting faster than previously thought, sea levels could rise..."

"Uh-oh - climate change."

'He's majoring in cave hydrology with, obviously, the ultimate aim of being a caveman like his Dad.'