I Submit To You That The Most Iconic Feature Of Any Animal Is Either Unlikely Or Impossible To Fossilize.

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It's not even clear here🥲🥲😭

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.

i love grocery shopping!!! The best parts are when my hands go numb and my heart and lungs get to play jump rope!!!!

Hey, yeah you, come closer.

I literally don't give a

fuck

about your obsession that dinosaurs

need

to be scary, even with feathers.

i always listen to the minecraft ost while doing my geology homework so now i just permanently associate minecraft music with rocks

When I say "Birds are Dinosaurs" and you say "No you know what I mean, when we say dinosaurs we mean Something Else" I think like... you don't know what I mean.

There's sort of a constructed category of dinosaurs as these scaly, powerful, outdated animals, and birds as these delicate modern animals, and I want you to understand that these ideas are based on outdated science and human biases. That birds can and have grown huge and predatory, that dinosaurs were a hugely diverse group that had grazers and small arboreal animals and fast intelligent ones.

Birds are a category of dinosaur, the only one we have left around. Appreciate them, demythologize dinosaurs, and destroy the boxes you put nature into.

*Elmer Fudd voice* Be vewwy, vewwy, quiet, I'm hunting geowogists

Do you love the Eras of the Earth?

Which One?