Classes

Geology 101 Physical Geology	Geology 102 Historical Geology
Geology 577 Micro-Analysis	Geology 430/530 Ore Deposits

Advise to the Lovelorn [Geologist]

Look gneiss.
Never be like an old jade or an old fossil; the variscite of both are distressing.
Be mannerly and perlite.
To eat pyrite, use your fork and don't let your apatite show for stuff that comes in quartz,
lest she think it's a cinnabar to serve you anything stronger than coke.
Don't try to be tuff or as hard as flint.
Never carry a blackjack or a carbon, lest sooner or later dry bones marcasite where you fell.
If you must be a wulfenite, go find yourself an Amber and don't gypsum poor fellow out of his precious Opal.
Willemite but Jasper never would.
Schist remember this --- swim on your own merits or zinc.

Follow these rules and you can soon take your pick and win a lot of prase,
but don't take too much for granite, anyway, not jet.
"Breccia my children" follows a gold ring set with diamonds.
Augite, so what? It takes a lot of brass, but they stilbite.
from The Template
Chicago Lapidary Club

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