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[pink]Duly noted. Told you I hadn't looked it up in a long time. [abashed e] [/pink]
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Oooo, you geologists! I like to hear you getting your rocks off! 
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Oooo, you geologists!
Who says i am an geologist? I am a generalist! i just happen to live in a place with interesting geology.
You do, too, CK. some places are more geologically intereresting..
and an oologist (a word that has come up as a W of the day,) could be a geologist/palentologist who was studying the mircoscopic life forms that left egg like remains oolite!
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neurologist; new oologist; an oologist; urologist....
Why do I hear an evil cackle from TEd?
[Edit in response to Angel immediately below: ayleurologist?]
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neurologist; new oologist; an oologist; urologist....
Keiva? Is that a neurologist, a new oologist, an oologist, and a urologist? 
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darn, i did a "Search", hoping that oolites hadn't been discussed here on the Board yet ~ but at least this discussion turned out to be fairly recent (shows how far behind i am on the board, though  ). i read a wonderful passage in a John McPhee novel, and wanted to share it since it deals with intriguing etymology: "Just as raindrops are created around motes of dust, oolites form around bits of rock so tiny that in wave-tossed water they will stir up and move. They move, and settle, move, and settle. And while they are up in the water calcium carbonate forms around them in layer after layer, building something like a pearl. Slice one in half with a diamond saw and you reveal a perfect bull's-eye, or, as its namer obviously imagined it, a stone egg, white and yolk--an oolite." _Annals of the Former World_, John McPhee - Farrar, Straiss and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-51873-4fabulous read, BTW... an immense geologic survey of the whole of Northern America around the 40th parallel ~ brilliantly researched and written.
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cara, have you read McPhee's Coming into the Country? he's a favorite writer of mine, and that's my favorite of his. (it's about Alaska... no, wait... it's more about people who choose to live in Alaska.)
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Dear Caradea: The thing I like best about Annals of the Former World was the way he did his research - by spending many months in the field with working geologists. And his wonderful pictures of people e.g. the mother of Love (can't remember his first name.)
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