geology mnemonics - more?
Terri Watson
"Come over some day, maybe play poker, three jacks call two queens"
(Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Missippian, Pennsylvanian,
Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Quaternary)
and
"Kisses Take Concentration, However Some Require Breath and Talent!"
(recently seen in someone's signature block!)
(Kaibab, Toroweap, Coconino, Hermit Shale, Supai, Redwall, Bright Angel
Shale, Tapeats --- Grand Canyon Formation Sequence)
DonÕt forget the Vishnu Schist on the bottom!!!
I'm sure there are lots more out there ---- from the foundational "Roy
G Biv" onward, they really give students a great way to file info.
Anyone care to share their favorite?
E-mail or post!!!
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Terri Watson
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green spleen...
>"Come over some day, maybe play poker, three jacks call two queens"
> (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Missippian, Pennsylvanian,
>Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Quaternary)
>"Kisses Take Concentration, However Some Require Breath and Talent!"
>(recently seen in someone's signature block!)
>(Kaibab, Toroweap, Coconino, Hermit Shale, Supai, Redwall, Bright Angel
>Shale, Tapeats --- Grand Canyon Formation Sequence)
>DonÕt forget the Vishnu Schist on the bottom!!!
Old - Olivene
Potatoes - Pyroxene
And - Amphibole
Beets - Biotite
Keep - K-spar
My - Muscovite
Queasy - Quartz
Zebra - Zircon
ILL. - Illmonite
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Deborah Macdonald
Tough Question!
Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Mississippian Pennsylvanian Pemian
Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Tertiary Quaternary!
DJM...@ukcc.uky.edu
terri_...@nols.edu (Terri Watson) writes:
>I'm sure there are lots more out there ---- from the foundational "Roy
>G Biv" onward, they really give students a great way to file info.
>Anyone care to share their favorite?
>E-mail or post!!!
I won't devulge the alleged activities forming the background for this
one but:
Others Suffer As Frolicing Colligent Nymphs Keep Mineralogy Teachers
Happy.
(Oxygen,Silicon,Aluminium,Iron,Calcium,Sodium,Potasium,Magneseum,
Titanium, and Hydrogen - the ten most abundant elements in the earth's
crust.
Dan
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Only Silly Asses In College Study Past Midnight
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Campbell's Ordinary Soup Does Make Peter Puke
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For the Mohs Scale..."AWOL"...The general choice for anyone quick to consider
desertion.
Dana Leighton
: "Come over some day, maybe play poker, three jacks call two queens"
: Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Quaternary)
My Physical Geology instructor taught these:
"Apple Pie"
(Archeozoic, Proterozoic)
"Campbell's Ordinary Soup Does Make Peter Pale"
(Cambrian - Permian)
"Terrible Jungle Creatures Tiptoe Quietly"
(Triassic - Quaternary)
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Signe Wurstner
OK, I can't resist --
For the Geologic Time Scale:
"Can Orville See Down My Pants Pocket?. Tom Jones Can; Tom's Queer"
(Cambrian, Ordovician, etc ...)
I had Cornelis Klein (you know, of Hurlbut and Klein, "Manual of
Mineralology" - that bright green book everyone uses) for Mineralology
and he taught us the following phrase for Mohs' hardness scale:
"The girls can flirt and other queer things can do"
And I'm sure we had one for the formations at Field Camp, but I can't
seem to remember it.
From grade school, however, I do remember:
"Mary Visits Every Monday, Just Stays Until Noon Period"
for the planets - in order from the sun outward.
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A C Mochrie
: OK, I can't resist --
: For the Geologic Time Scale:
: "Can Orville See Down My Pants Pocket?. Tom Jones Can; Tom's Queer"
: (Cambrian, Ordovician, etc ...)
Here's another
"Captain Of Ship Drowned 'Cos Poor Tom Jones Came To Quick"
There are someother good ones in Stephen Jay Gould's book "Wonderful Life"
robert chesbro
What about: Please come over some day, maybe play poker, two jacks
cover three queens.
A C Mochrie (A.C.M...@durham.ac.uk) wrote:
Rob B. Leslie
>>
>> I had Cornelis Klein (you know, of Hurlbut and Klein, "Manual of
>> Mineralology" - that bright green book everyone uses) for Mineralology
>> and he taught us the following phrase for Mohs' hardness scale:
>>
>> "The girls can flirt and other queer things can do"
>>
A good friend of mine came up with:
The green cow flew away, felt queer to come down.
Talc, gypsum, calcite, fluorite, apatite, feldspar, quartz, topaz,
corundum, diamond.
Are you out there Craig???
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Precambrian Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian
Carboniferous(Miss. and Pens.) Permian
Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous
Paleocene Eocene Oligocene Miocene Pliocene Pleistocene Recent(Holocene) !
John Blair
All nice stuff. I wish I had known these "tricks" back in college.
However, as a paleo major (before switching to Geology), I did learn the
phylogenetic chart by using the following:
Kings Play Chess On Fine Grain Sand
(Kingdom, Phylum, Class, etc.)
Then there's the one for the Grand Canyon's formations (I hope I have it
right):
Know The Canyon's History -- Study Rocks Made By Time
(Kaibab, Toroweap, Coconino, Hermit, etc.)
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Benjamin S. Levy
> All nice stuff. I wish I had known these "tricks" back in college.
> However, as a paleo major (before switching to Geology), I did learn the
> phylogenetic chart by using the following:
>
> Kings Play Chess On Fine Grain Sand
> (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, etc.)
>
> Then there's the one for the Grand Canyon's formations (I hope I have it
> right):
>
> Know The Canyon's History -- Study Rocks Made By Time
> (Kaibab, Toroweap, Coconino, Hermit, etc.)
>
> --
> You're Never Too Old To Have A Happy Childhood
How about the old saw:
Come over some day, maybe play poker. Three jacks cover two queens.
(Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian...)
Or
Keep pr*v*tes clean or forget getting scr***d.
(Kingdom, phyllum, class...)
Sorry for the saltier mnemonic.
MA Wiest
"Keep Pepsi Cola only for good students"
for kingdom, phylum etc.