Geopoetry3
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Aureococcus
On skin, it’s barely a freckle I’d make, But baby, en masse, we turn seas opaque! Come darkness, come famine, come poison or flood, My kind can flourish in any old crud.
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Graceful, Tiny, Toothy Ancestors
With body spry, tail curly, This mammal showed up early.
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Dreadnoughtus
If you, like me, are something of a paleo-romantic, Swooning over dinosaurs both fearsome and gigantic, Come feast your eyes on new reports the bone-hunters have brought us: “Fearing nothing” means its name – the mighty beast Dreadnoughtus!
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Erosion, Then Explosion
When viewing The Great Unconformity, The result of a vast denudation, One feels a new sense of enormity … And above it lie critters crustacean!
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Faint Young Sun
Through an ancient looking-glass, Perhaps you’d see more H2 gas, And if with denser gas collided, Greater greenhouse warmth provided.
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Bottom Feeders
Graduate students, microbe goo … What is it that links the two? It seems that both life forms are found Where electron donors (food) abound!
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Bird Brain
A pigeon’s got cells in its brain That link up with its inner ear. Despite any wind, fog, or rain, These talented birds, they can steer!
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Deep Sea Plough
Giant fleets the oceans trawl, Gasping fish they skywards haul. Not just critters do they move, But sediments they push and groove …
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When North Itself Wanders
I love thinking about why my compass points north. The deep, molten-metal motions, rising And falling … gargantuan currents of iron Conceiving vast magnetic fields, revealed In my hand, by a tiny, quivering red needle.
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