Geoffrey the geoLogist wAs sitting at his laboratory dEsk doing humdrum report writing. "There's a call for you", said one of his colleagues. Geoffrey was somewhat excited at the end of the call and let on that he'd been called to investigate a new rock formation in an unexpected location. Hurriedly he packed for his expedition and was taken to the location by a very hairy route involving horseback and canoe. When he got there he was quick to pronounce the find as shale rock. "You see here", he said to the expedition leader, "the scale of these pieces is less than a centimetre and all the bits of the rock to lie in an almost perfect plane". He took various samples to examine further but he dreaded the return journey. But as it happened they had arranged for a helicopter to land on a small glade near the site so Geoffrey and his samples could return a lot more comfortably. But even then, Geoffrey hoped the pilot knew what he was doing as the location was very narrow and it looked like each blade of the helicopter was inches away from the cliffs. But at last it ascended out of the dingy deep hollow and was on its way back to the airport. Back in the laboratory, Geoffrey spent some time taking apart bigger pieces into a flake at a time to reveal any fossils.
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