(photo by World through the Lens)
How to spot a Geologist
To spot a geologist in the wild, look for:
- Someone explaining to airport security that a sidewall core covered in gunpowder residue isn’t really a weapon.
- Someone who only includes people in photos for scale, and has more pictures of his/her rock hammer and lens caps than of family and friends. Especially someone who uses their new baby for scale
- Someone who considers a “recent event” to be anything that has happened in the last hundred million years.
- Someone who licks and/or scratches & sniffs rocks or in case of china clay will eat it to prove it’s perfectly safe.
- Someone who eats dirt and claims to be “getting an estimate of grain size”
- Someone who says “this will make a nice Christmas gift” while out rock collecting.
- Someone who looks at scenery and tells you how it formed. (I do this WAY too often)
- Someone who prefers to explain the sequence of events shown in a cliff face to sunbathing.
- Someone who rocks the party and is the schist everywhere they go.
- Someone who when colouring, stays between the lines. Always.
- more…
