Today I Learned

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by monster

TIL What autochthonous means.

TBH, TIL autochthonous was a word.

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and no, look it up your darn self ... not like you're short on time right now....

For a good and edifying use of the term, read through McPhee's Annals of the Former World where it attains some prominence in the volume Rising From The Plain. All about Wyoming -- which is a more subtly strange place than I'd thought. There's oil here and there under Yellowstone NP...

Annals is four books, written over many years, about plate tectonic theory and about rocks. And his writing makes the rocks sing. It'll change your view of what you're hiking around on.

You might even start toting an Estwing geologists' pick. I've got one of those.