Scott,
Sounds a bit like you may be looking for the (originally German language I believe) poem "The Ichthyosaurus" by Joseph Victor Scheffe ??
If you google it you will find various English language versions thereof....
Let us know if this is the one....
Best
Kurt Stuewe
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Betreff: Seeking old plate tectonic humor article
I was wondering if anyone on this discussion board can help me track
down a humorous article from the early days of plate tectonics that I
recall stumbling upon in the MIT geology library as an undergraduate
many years ago. I have recently been searching every database I can find
and am coming up empty.
My memory of it is growing dim, but I recall it was a tongue-in-cheek
defense of the anti-continental drift position that included references
to an odd dinosaur, termed something like Glossastompadon Loathafoliata,
that it claimed was responsible for stomping out all attempts by a
certain plant to spread between continents (there was even a cartoon
illustrating the idea). I believe there was also a reference to "jumping
plates" to explain how Madagascar popped out from one of the African
lakes to reach its current location. I cannot recall much of the rest,
but I remember finding it hysterically funny at the time. I never wrote
down the volume where I found it and have not been able to track it down
since (and I've tried many times). Is anybody out there able to save my
sanity by pointing me to this article before I convince myself that I
must have dreamed it up?
Thanks in advance.
Scot Krueger
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