https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/angus-mearns/1800424/tayside-geology-society-set-up/ S cottish Geology Trust inspires Angus man to lay foundation for society celebrating Tayside landscape. The early success of the trust has now inspired Arbroath man Hunor Deak to create a group focused on the geological treasures on the area’s doorstep — among them the Angus town’s distinctive red sandstone cliffs. New society will align with aims of Scottish Geology Trust. Hunor, 23, said: “If there was one place in the world you could go to understand how the planet works, why climate changes, why life evolved — Scotland would be it. “The diversity of geology in Scotland has underpinned some of the greatest discoveries about how the world works.” He said understanding of the earth was essential if we want to have a planet we can still live on in the future and the importance of the trust had been underlined by the support for the crowdfunder from multiple universities and internation...

  Poem: Old Sand Hunor Traian Deak · 2 days ago Sand deposited, Deposed, So silly, So silly! Laid in neat rows, High in neat rows, Up on the laird, High upon clowns, Clown of time, Layers of different, Material and gauge, Old as some bygone age! The magic of Stratigraphy, Calling to me! To you! To us! To everyone! 20  

  Balaur Bondoc — Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás Hunor Traian Deak Dec 3 · 6 min read Strange bird from a different nest, Flying low not like all the rest, If you can’t catch him, you can’t claim him, If you can’t see him you can’t name him — Jimmy Buffett The story of a dinosaur from the island of Transylvania in the old tropics. Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás was a famous paleontologist who discovered the island phenomena in evolution, he created the science of paleobiology and was the first ethnographer of Albania. From  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-forgot-rogue-aristocrat-discovered-dinosaurs-died-penniless-180959504/ The baron was one of t h e great scholars and scientific minds of his time — and was largely self-taught. He was one of the first scientists to look at fossilized dinosaur bones and see a living, social creature. In fact, he was a staunch believer in the evolutionary relationship between birds and dinosaurs, de...