Thursday, April 15, 2010

This is why I am a geologist
















Geologic Map of Middle Earth
Just in case you wanted to know.....
  1. Frodo cast the ring into a rift zone basaltic volcano.
  2. Gandalf fell to his apparent death within an ancient subduction zone granitic batholith.
  3. The Shire is located on an ancient pelitic metamorphic continental craton.
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1 comments:

  1. Kirk, someone threw up on that plate of food.

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