Grooves Cut Into Rock

Seana O’Brien Geology 304 Project 11/16/07

I chose to write some haiku poems for my project. Dr. Ashworth stated that we may write a poem and after I realized that that included haiku I decided to see how many haiku poems that I could come up with. I wrote eight different haiku poems, some of which are kind of weak, but some of them are pretty good if I do say so myself. The materials that I used were the word list supplied by Dr.

Ashworth to the class, and my geology 105 textbook, which I have cited below. The reason that I chose to write haiku for my project is was that I like to do creative things. I am an accounting major and not geology so I figured that I would not write a very good scientific paper. I really enjoyed this class and I would recommend it to other people.

Lutgens, Frederick K., and Edward J. Tarbeck. Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology. New jersey:

Pearson Education, Inc. 2005 Striations grooves cut into rock flat sides tell a story a glacier was here

Kame steep conical hill composed of gravel, sand, till moved by a glacier

Kettle lake buried ice chunk melts forms hole, rainwater fills, now oval swimming hole

Erratic metamorphic rocks carried long distances to rest far from their home

Isostacy crustal subsidence isostatic adjustment crustal rebounding

Aquifer water trickling traveling through gravel, sand dig a well to drink

Esker linear, snakelike filled with gravel, glacial till water bearing thing

Eastern North Dakota Terraines glacial ice miles thick leaves till, dirty, sandy, that lays over the land