An Ode to the Geological Map Hunor Traian Deak Nov 27  · 2 min read Geological map Britain William Smith 1815 I have done a lot of mapping and field trips with many people. I met people from Canada, the US, Paraguay, South Africa, Poland, Australia, France, India. I worked under many academics from a wide field and from many universities. In the spirit of the Moine field trip, I wrote mine own poem about the geological map: A rainbow of colour runs across a map, A weird concoction of symbols, plans and land, With mighty faults criss-crossing with teeth, A geological map is a mystery indeed. Information gathered in the wind and rain, Or under the blue sky, on wide sunny plains, Dip direction and dip angle put together by compass, With under the watchful eyes of characters of science! The map of colour cracks open the Earth, With Folds, Fossils, Lavas, Volcanoes on the wide turf, All is a head-scratcher like Peach and Horne, Yet it all boils down to the ideas of Jame...

  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...