Lounge of the Lab Lemming

I'm a geochemist. My main interest is in-situ mass spectrometry, but I have a soft spot in my heart for thermodynamics, poetry, drillers, trees, bicycles, and cosmochemistry.

Friday, July 19, 2019

Geosonnet 57

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A black extrusive, collared for a crime Won't flow, or run, or put up any fight. When faced with doing geologic time, Repeat offender...

Friday, July 12, 2019

Geosonnet 56

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White walkers turn the maple leaf to ice A glacial edifice, three miles in height Continuous, and ringed by edelweiss? Or intermi...

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Geosonnet 55

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A plotter’s pause to synchronize his watch Is often preparation for a heist: A bank vault? Tardy mail train full of scotch? A drug...

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Geosonnet 54

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A horoscope yon wand’ring planets make Predictions of our facies, lives, and death. Is graveyard orbital influence fake? A sedimen...

Friday, April 26, 2019

Midnight in Chernobyl

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by Adam Higginbotham This book is a retelling of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, and its effects on the people and landscape around i...

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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Geosonnet 53

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An opal is the desert’s hidden gem Precipitating from a torrid brine Geologists from arid zones condemn Ideas that ice, not heat...

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Geosonnet 52

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Peridotite, without the peridot A paradox, clinopyroxenite What metasomatized this mantle plot Reacting mantle min’rals out of s...

Monday, April 08, 2019

Preserved Lemmings

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I don't know what the elimination of G+ is going to do to this lounge, but if there is an interruption, please note that several years a...

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