I'm going to answer your question with a list. I'm doing this for two reasons.
1) They look nice.
2) They break large chunks or boulders of information down into not as large chunks.
3) They allow for prioritizing of important information based on a vertical idiom, in which the most important information resides at the upper strata and as we dig deeper into the lower strata, the information becomes less and less relevant.
4) This shouldn't be confused with the way the geologic record works, because in the geologic record as you dig deeper into the strata, things tend to get older and more interesting.
5) Rocks can be pointy.
6) I own 3 pairs of socks.
The reasons that reading the geologic record are different from reading a book are as follows:
1) The pages of the geologic record are reeeeeaaaallly heavy. I'm not sure if you have ever tried to turn a mountain or even a foothill before, but I have and I herniated things that I didn't even know existed. Did the mountain and/or foothill even budge? No way. There are better ways of turning the "pages" of the geologic record, but I can't divulge them to you.
2) No Page Numbers (that was an easy one)
3) To bookmark your place you have to basically explode all of the layers above the ones you want to stop reading at. Most people / governments frown on this, but they can't stop you if you get Geological Library card. You can apply for this at your local branch of the GL.
4) Technically, you never take it off the shelf. If you think of the planet Earth abstractly and imagine that it is actually "on" the bookshelves that are "on" it (this is easy to do if you're smart enough to free your mind of the laws of gravity) then you never "take it off" the shelf. If you wanted to it would mean launching your bookshelf past the gravitational pull of the earth.
5) footnotes vs. foothills
6) cliff notes vs. actual cliffs.
7) Books are often read in schools.
8) I put rocks in my underpants.
9) Neil Diamond will live forever.
10) Milkshakes are yummy.
Hope that helps!
1) They look nice.
2) They break large chunks or boulders of information down into not as large chunks.
3) They allow for prioritizing of important information based on a vertical idiom, in which the most important information resides at the upper strata and as we dig deeper into the lower strata, the information becomes less and less relevant.
4) This shouldn't be confused with the way the geologic record works, because in the geologic record as you dig deeper into the strata, things tend to get older and more interesting.
5) Rocks can be pointy.
6) I own 3 pairs of socks.
The reasons that reading the geologic record are different from reading a book are as follows:
1) The pages of the geologic record are reeeeeaaaallly heavy. I'm not sure if you have ever tried to turn a mountain or even a foothill before, but I have and I herniated things that I didn't even know existed. Did the mountain and/or foothill even budge? No way. There are better ways of turning the "pages" of the geologic record, but I can't divulge them to you.
2) No Page Numbers (that was an easy one)
3) To bookmark your place you have to basically explode all of the layers above the ones you want to stop reading at. Most people / governments frown on this, but they can't stop you if you get Geological Library card. You can apply for this at your local branch of the GL.
4) Technically, you never take it off the shelf. If you think of the planet Earth abstractly and imagine that it is actually "on" the bookshelves that are "on" it (this is easy to do if you're smart enough to free your mind of the laws of gravity) then you never "take it off" the shelf. If you wanted to it would mean launching your bookshelf past the gravitational pull of the earth.
5) footnotes vs. foothills
6) cliff notes vs. actual cliffs.
7) Books are often read in schools.
8) I put rocks in my underpants.
9) Neil Diamond will live forever.
10) Milkshakes are yummy.
Hope that helps!
