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💧🌏 Greg CocksI have been digging out my old copies of John McPhee's <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#books</a>, dipping in, remembering what it was like to be a new <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#geologist</a>, and how it has carried across into <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#data</a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geomorphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#geomorphology</a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geomorphometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#geomorphometry</a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hydrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#hydrology</a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landcover" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#landcover</a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/engineeringgeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#engineeringgeology</a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/environmentalscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#environmentalscience</a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#landuse</a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/massmovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#massmovement</a> and so much more...... This one paragraph reminded me so strongly of that time,, although I cannot of course write as eloquently: -- "I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. Geology was called a descriptive science, and with its pitted outwash plains and drowned rivers, its hanging tributaries and starved coastlines, it was nothing if not descriptive. It was a fountain of metaphor—of isostatic adjustments and degraded channels, of angular unconformities and shifting divides, of rootless mountains and bitter lakes..." <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JohnMcPhee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#JohnMcPhee</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/scientificwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#scientificwriting</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/readingforpleasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#readingforpleasure</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#geology</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#water</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#landforms</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatialanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#spatialanalysis</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatiotemporal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#spatiotemporal</a>

PaprikaPink 🖤<a href="https://sfba.social/@cynblogger" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cynblogger</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/@Elizabethcreely" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Elizabethcreely</a> I mean look at these sentences! Who works "angle of repose" so naturally into a sentence for lay readers? Perfect potpourri of poetic, pompous, and playful, overflowing with imagery and information: "The San Gabriels, in their state of tectonic youth, are rising as rapidly as any range on earth. Their loose inimical slopes flout the tolerance of the angle of repose. Rising straight up out of the megalopolis, they stand ten thousand feet above the nearby sea, and they are not kidding with this city." <a href="https://oliphant.social/tags/JohnMcPhee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnMcPhee</a>

Vicky Veritas“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”~ John McPhee, Annals of the Former World (Mt. Everest is 29,032 feet tall)<a href="https://c.im/tags/JohnMcPhee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnMcPhee</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AnnalsOfTheFormerWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnnalsOfTheFormerWorld</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MtEverest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MtEverest</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Limestone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Limestone</a>

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