GO FIGURE

John McPhee, prolific American writer and professor of Journalism wrote:
“If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”

“Mount Everest (Qomolangma- holy mother, Tibetan) is the highest point on the Earth’s crust. Commonly known as the Roof of the World, or The Third Pole, the Himalayan plateau supports a unique ecosystem but also captures the evidence for the evolution of the best known of the planet’s tectonic belts. The summit of the mountain (29,032 ft.) is a tropical Middle Ordovician limestone with abundant and diverse marine fossils that formed part of the ancient seafloor long before the collision of India with the Asian continent, which started about 55 million years ago.” (International Commission on Geoheritage)

Go Figure… ‘The summit of Mt Everest is marine limestone.’ There is a whole lot of stuff I don’t know about. I’m headed over to the other side of the Pond for some Cuban Coffee and Gingerbread Cookies with White Icing. I need some quiet time to think about fish bones and other marine life imbedded in limestone on the top of Mt. Everest…or perhaps to stop thinking about it.

“I tell you the truth, if you have faith and don’t doubt, you can do things like this and much more. You can even say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen.” Jesus