Contest: Guess the analogy
Okay... on Monday I made up this image to illustrate an important concept in my Physical Geology class. Can you figure out what it is, specifically?
Leave your guesses in the comments section. First one to get it right wins a GEOLOGY ROCKS bumper sticker or some choice NOVA swag! (Your choice)
Leave your guesses in the comments section. First one to get it right wins a GEOLOGY ROCKS bumper sticker or some choice NOVA swag! (Your choice)
11 Comments:
Weathering... Physical and Chemical
Stone vs. rock?
The guy on the left is stoned and the guy on the right has been stoned.
The many uses of rocks?
I'm thinking anthropogenic vs. natural processes.
Or rather natural vs human sculpting.
I already have a Geology Rocks bumper sticker on my car.
I am not claiming to have the answer but maybe it will spur some thinking. The original rock up top became in the case of the carved statue on the bottom left a carved rock through wearing, erosion or something that affected the outside of the rock. The pile of pebbles on the right seem to be the result of something pulverizing the original rock into many pieces. Unfortunately, I can't think what geological process pulverizes a big rock quickly into small pebbles. Water freezing in cracks and disintegrating a large rock? A big rock falls off a cliff face and smashes into pebbles as hits far below?
Maybe I just got it! Maybe a mountain rock is carved up above and then pebbles collect in a river bed down below? Now, if I am right will I need to find a saying to accompany my Geology Rocks bumper sticker? How presumptuous of me?
thomas donlon
The future of a rock is dependent on it's environment. If the environment is an artists studio, the rock may be worked into an object of art. If the environment is a creek, the rock may be weathered into pieces.
Information. We start with a plain old rock in either case. Then we add information - sculpture or weathering. The weathering tells us about the conditions which have occurred in the meantime.
rocks- some people see a thing of interest and beauty, others just see a pile of rocks
Or it might be about life reversing entropy. That's another possibility.
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