Plagioclastic flow abates and its rolling load, stuck in its last show of disorder, is revealed by weathering and erosion: these are the outcrops.
If you would know more of the earth about you, then the possibility of an encounter with what is geologic is practicable; whereupon to be a human becomes sufficiently pleasing. As Bronk has written:
In bigger spaces, longer times than us
on an earthen world, other things go on
in spite of us. Look. It’s there we are.
- from William Bronk, “Overview,” Our selves: new poems, ISBN 1 – 883689 – 15 – 5 (cloth)
* ‘low-lying energies’ , the phrase comes from the great and good post:
http://open.salon.com/blog/romanticpoetess/2011/12/18/what_is_a_poet
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god i miss being young and hanging out with the geologists.
http://www.amazon.com/Outcroppings-John-McPhee/dp/0879052627
We are all geoligists.
Let's all go look at a road cut today.
Does this imply that the highlands are as disordered as down here?
Are there dogs on the moon? Moon dogs?
I know of sundogs, as you do: phantom suns.
Illusory.
I wish this dog was illusory.
No he is all here, all appetite.
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you keyed on my use of the word ‘disorder’ so here is what i was thinking behind its choice:
the outcrops are formed of basalt;
their origin has a molten basis (magma);
and also a cooling basis;
more to the point, magma is in a disordered state
(without structure, without form);
the particles or elements of magma,
such as Fe atoms, drift or disperse
in a random manner until cooling
of the magma occurs
(particles crowd together, combine, crystalize)
and order is introduced.
Outcrops are the ordered formations
of this cooling process; but under the agents
of weathering, are in flux.
note: plagioclase is weathered basalt