Variations

Geological Forces

 

On a flat area, we can sometimes feel a presence of rocks, mountains, and big masses that long ago made the hills. After millions of years no more hills can be seen, and the land surface meets the sky along a horizontal line. However, our mind makes a reconstruction of past forces that caused movement of the terrain under our feet. We may be aware of fundamental forces acting deep under the Earth’s surface, such as gravity, electromagnetism, or even nuclear forces. We may imagine how temperature and pressure inside the Earth caused actions of forces expressed as friction or tension, which resulted in a translocation of big masses of minerals and rocks, their folds and faults of various kinds. Many times the presence of what we think existed in our neighborhood million years ago shows geological forces; we may label them as informative parts of geological landscape.