Cornerstone
May 7, 2023Quite a while ago I did a Pedology course. Not podiatry- that’s feet. This course was a lot more down to earth.Pedology is the study of soil. Soil science. I’d been studying botany – which involves plants and suddenly itwas decided that it was part of my degree to know about which plants grew on which soils. Hmm. Geology. You could tell all the real geologists from us botanists as they had their little hammers for cracking the rocksopen and they were the ones who actually put the dirt in their mouths to tell the clay vs grit content. Not really to my taste. While I was studying there, in the Geology department, I heard that we might have to put up with theProfessor showing us through his rock collection. I heard also of when a technician slipped a piece of concrete into his collection. The Professor was not phased at all. I’m sure he spotted the fake rock a mileaway though. He would name…
