I’ve always loved geology. I don’t know why I do, but something ’bout the changing earth excites me through and through. Subduction zones, orogeny, the earth’s great heaving powers, and cleavage, groins, and hot spots. I could study this for hours. I love to learn of hardness, swells, and continental rise; of columns, stacks, and mountain peaks, all pointing to the skies. Of caverns and crevasses, valleys, fissures, rifts, and trenches. I like to know what’s going on in beds, on floors, on benches. I like to learn near all things geological. And yet, I’m not so keen on permafrost,…