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[[Two people are doing a geological survey]]
Person 1: Forget the bedding - we were wrong about the whole valley.
Person 2: The spreading is recent.
Person 1: See the friction breccia?
Person 2: Oh - flow cleavage! Deeper in the rift.
Person 1: Deeper.
[[An idea pops into Person 1's head]]
Person 1: This orogeny
Person 2: is driven by a
Person 1: *huge*
Person 2: *thrust* fault
[[The same idea pops into person 2's head]]
[[They both drop to the ground in a fit of passion]]
Geology: Surprisingly erotic.
{{Title text: That's a gneiss butte.}}
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