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I look at the world as a scientist. I feel it all with my human heart. I look at the world as a scientist. I feel it all with my human heart. I look at the world as a scientist. I feel it all with my human heart.
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Rock With Me

 Breccia
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By D. J. Green
In Rock With Me
Posted January 19, 2021

Breccia

Hunkered at home during the escalating pandemic is not, in fact, a terrible thing for a writer. There are fewer excuses to keep me from the work. So, last month I finished my novel (yes, again!) [...]

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 Madera Limestone
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By D. J. Green
In Rock With Me
Posted November 17, 2019

Madera Limestone

Though it doesn’t occur beneath my feet unless I climb long and hard and high (as I did here), it’s my bedrock. The Madera Limestone crowns the rift-flank Sandia Mountains whose shadow I live in. [...]

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 The Sculpted Sandstones of Sucia
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By D. J. Green
In Rock With Me
Posted July 28, 2018

The Sculpted Sandstones of Sucia

In the San Juan Islands of Washington state, there are many lovely anchorages to drop a hook. Some would say Sucia Island is one of the loveliest. Part of a three-island marine state park, it has [...]

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 Travertine
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By D. J. Green
In Rock With Me
Posted April 4, 2018

Travertine

In my novel, Inundation, Will Ross, who is an engineering geologist beginning work in east central Turkey on a troubled dam, discovers a travertine deposit on his first day in the field. Kayakale [...]

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 Granodiorite
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By D. J. Green
In Rock With Me
Posted November 6, 2017

Granodiorite

Two granodiorite cobbles sit on my desk. This shouldn’t surprise you, seems my desk has almost as many rocks as papers on it. These cobbles are similar in size and shape and rock type. Each is [...]

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 Schist
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By D. J. Green
In Rock With Me
Posted June 2, 2017

Schist

This rock is very old, though new to me. I recently picked it up on one of my many desert walks. Having rained the day before, it was rinsed clean and sparkled in the sun. Its glistening was [...]

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 Vishnu Schist and Zoroaster Granite
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By D. J. Green
In Rock With Me
Posted February 22, 2017

Vishnu Schist and Zoroaster Granite

Sometimes I don’t hold the rock, it holds me. Some rocks don’t get stuffed into a pocket, then put on a shelf. Sometimes I nestle into a nook where I fit as well as a rock might fit in my hand, [...]

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 Stone Fruit
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By D. J. Green
In Rock With Me
Posted September 10, 2016

Stone Fruit

When I was a little kid, maybe five or six or seven (I was old enough to know what a fossil was), I found what I thought was a really cool one. It was gray, and had all sorts of convoluted ridges [...]

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 Quartz
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By D. J. Green
In Rock With Me
Posted June 1, 2016

Quartz

Most geologists I know have desks and shelves in their offices and homes littered with rocks and minerals. We’re perpetual kids who never give up our rock collections. One morning in the [...]

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Geologists study the earth and the processes that shape it. Writers study the human heart and the processes that shape it. The GeologistWriter builds a bridge between the two. Come across it with me!

GROUND WORK: Wander the outdoors with me.

ROCK WITH ME: Every rock (and mineral) has a story to tell.

VENUS & MARS GO SAILING: Life. Intensified. Off the coast of British Columbia.

FINDING THE WORDS: We all have stories – let's find the words to tell them.
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As the GeologistWriter, Deborah Green strives to understand and convey the wonder of the landscape and the complexity of earth processes while also exploring the mysterious terrain of the human heart and relationships through compelling stories and essays.

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