I know a couple of them, like "Schist happens", "Geologists, don't take them for granite", and "If you show me your outcrop, I'll get a little boulder". Does anyone know any othes that they would like to share?
2006-07-18 06:39:02 · 8 answers · asked by Oilfield 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Give me a minute, I'll try to dig one up.
2006-07-18 06:43:36 · answer #1 · answered by Grumpy 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Geology Puns
2016-10-01 08:26:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are so many. The best one is a mineral (an Mg end-member of Amphibole) named after Cummington, England: Cummingtonite. The possibilitess are endless.
Another great mineral name is Analcime.
There is also: Tuff schist, Subduction leads to orogeny, Geologists make the bed rock, to name a few.
2006-07-18 07:04:22 · answer #3 · answered by QFL 24-7 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if it counts as a pun or not, but my friends and I will sometimes refer to women being very 'spathic', which is a geological terms refering to the possession of good cleavage.
Did I mention that my friends and I are very geeky? Or is that obvious?
2006-07-18 07:14:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
get your rocks off with a geo. Geo's dig gneiss cleavage. Geo's are into radioactive dating. or Structural geology, it's not my fault. or Sedimentary my Dear Watson
How far does a fault move? About a mileanite (mynolite)
2006-07-18 09:48:58 · answer #5 · answered by Kalahari_Surfer 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's a little city in southern Minnesota, Granite Falls. Pretty little place. "We like our Gneiss, but we don't take it for Granite" is on a billboard upon entering town. I haven't been there in years, so I may have misquoted, but that's the general gist of it.
2006-07-18 08:34:17 · answer #6 · answered by Moon Maiden 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Being a geo', I've heard nearly all of them, but it's been awhile since I heard them......I'll see what I can remember:):)
"Are you cummingtonite?" "No, I've alread sphene"
"geology rocks your world"
"let's get to the core of the matter"
" Geologists: one rock short of a pile"
There's a few........:):)
2006-07-18 19:13:46 · answer #7 · answered by ozzie35au 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of quartz, this might sound a little wacke but I think your facies gneiss! For the lava God, show me your cleavage! Shale yeah!
2014-03-06 18:43:55 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So.. basically, what you are saying is-There are no good Geology puns.
2014-03-03 07:18:20 · answer #9 · answered by kwainwri 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean stuff like, "...then, India thrust into Asia with a quaking orgenic ecstasy..." ?
2006-07-18 09:21:23 · answer #10 · answered by stevenB 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋