As I was reading R.L. Folk's classical Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks online this morning (yeah, it's online and free) on page 176
“If Karl Marx will forgive us, we may state the Geochemist Manifesto: ‘Waters of the World, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your ions!’” -- Robert L. Folk on contact zones in diagenesis of carbonates.
It kind of stuck with me. Not in the political meaning of the original quote, but just at how casual he put that in there. I like to think of myself as a budding geochemist as well. (Low Temperature Aqueous Geochemistry under my belt!) As a result, this geology joke leaves me quite warm and lithified.
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