This is absolutely gorgeous. Geology described like this always reminds me of Douglas Adams’s description of the inextricably time-linked sensorium of rhinos, whose predominant sense of smell gives them an instant ‘temporal cross-section’ of past events.
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Great writing! You took me back into time to a place a never imagined. Lol I want to smell that shale!
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