Mineralogist Mugs

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

Grand Canyon. What's so great about the Grand Canyon?...Most of it's missing!

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

"Admit it, we're lost."

"Look, Professor - a stegosaurus!"

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

'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.'

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

Rock - see you in a million years!

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

The Tectonics and Their Plates.

Water is discovered on the moon....

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

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

"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."

"Have you tried carbon dating?"

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

"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."

'...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'

"No. Bad dog. You may not use fracking to extract a bone you buried."

What do you think about this "too big to fail" stuff?

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

"Uh-oh - climate change."

"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..."