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John McPhee's Pulitzer-winning _The Annals of the Former World_ is arguably 1000 (wonderful) pages made _possible_ by road cuts... something he gleefully expoun
by aaroninsf 10y ago
John McPhee's Pulitzer-winning _The Annals of the Former World_ is arguably 1000 (wonderful) pages made _possible_ by road cuts... something he gleefully expounds upon.
Geologists don't get budgets to do section hills to check out their innards.
Strangely, federal highway builders do... and do.
Presto! Tons of fresh data just waiting for you to pull over and check it out...
- jofer 10y agoThat is absolutely true. I have a friend that refers to the local highway dept as "the department of outcrop construction". That's also why you should never be in a car with a geologist at the wheel... We spend far too much time looking at the rocks and far too little looking at the road.