Word: chert
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...rigors of body and mind cannot fail to impress. She moves robustly over the landscape lugging her hammers and rock samples. She computes the hard evidence of a canyon wall or handful of dirt with quick confidence and cheerful clarity. "I see little pieces of carbon. I see green chert. I see a bug crawling through the sand...
...ancient rock found near Gunflint Lake in western Ontario, which somehow escaped this rough treatment. In the magazine Science, Paleontologist Elso S. Barg-hoorn-of Harvard and the late Geologist Stanley A. Tyler of the University of Wisconsin describe the remains of microscopic organisms that lived in that "Gunflint chert" - an impure silica -about 2 billion years ago, 1,800 million years before the earliest dinosaurs...
...living parts were on the tips: microscopic threads of algae tangled together, busily depositing silica that stiffened the columns. The hummocks eventually became the Gunflint chert, which radioactive dating proves to be 2 billion years...
...journalist, Henri de Jouvenel. They were divorced, and in 1935 she married her present husband, a journalist named Maurice Goudeket. But she never stopped writing. By 1919, Marcel Proust himself was shedding tears over her love story of World War I, Mitsou. In 1920 the great Gide breathlessly read Chert at a sitting, declared it had "not one weakness, not one redundancy, nothing commonplace...
...Chert's French Creole Pecan Pie ("My great-grandmother said her mother's family had the recipe . . . after eating, it is usually best to pull up an easy chair and relax...