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With thanks to my sources of inspiration: my wife and her Open University books; Horsham Geological Field Club, its speakers and field trips; my son for sharing his internet space; and, er, well, to life, reallyCopyright:
Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Email geoverse@hotmail.co.uk if you'd like to use any of the poems.
Tag Archives: Mortimore (Rory)
Boring Chalk
For a tunneller, certain Chalk strata have undesirable characteristics, such as the presence of hard flints or sand-like phosphatic chalk. Tunnelling is expensive, but so are delays and damage to tunnel boring machines which hit unexpected geology. So engineers planning … Continue reading
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Rory’s Chalk
A finely divided lithography Continue reading
Flint
How to make it Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Flint, Geology, Mortimore (Rory), Peacehaven, Rocks
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Poor Doris
Echinocoris scutata Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Echinocorys, Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Mortimore (Rory), Peacehaven
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Chalk talk
An alga speaks Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Coccoliths, Fossils, Geology, Mortimore (Rory), Peacehaven, Rhymes
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