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音乐视频“Mutual Core”(2011年),由比约克演唱,以炙热的构造力和感性的地层为特色,绝不是地质学和古生物学如何启发音乐家和词曲作者的唯一例子。从说唱到古典音乐,从硬摇滚到布鲁斯,从太古代人类世——你想要的所有“深时”都在这里。

德国音乐团体“The Ocean”在2007年发行了一张名为“Precambrian”(前寒武纪)的硬摇滚专辑,四张单曲CD以前寒武纪的四个宇冥古代/太古代/中元古代新元古代)命名,而单曲则以各个纪(托尼纪成冰纪,…)命名。

加拿大伯吉斯页岩的前寒武纪化石是早期宏观生命形式最重要的例证之一,基于古生物学家斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德的畅销书《奇妙的生命》(1989年),兰德·斯泰格在1994年为大型管弦乐队创作了音乐,恰如其分地命名为“伯吉斯页岩”,并以皮凯亚虫怪诞虫等化石为特色。


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Paleoartist Ray Troll is known best for his surreal artwork, but there is a quite good "Devonian Blues" written and performed in 2005. The discovery of Tiktaalik in Devonian sediments was also honoured by a song. The band "Ilium" published an album with the title "Permian dusk", featuring various chronostratigraphic-related songs, followed in 2009 by the album "Ageless Decay" with the "Eocene Dawning".

In his animated movie "Allegro non Troppo" (1976), the Italian cartoonist Bruno Bozzetto uses Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" to display a sort of ladder of evolution, punctuated by various geological catastrophes like volcanic eruptions and ice ages.

In the same movie an evolving society of cavemen dances to the "Danza slavica Nr.7" by Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904). In "Le carnaval des animaux" (The Carnival of the Animals) by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), also "the Fossils" and extinct animals have their grand debut.

The life of miners and mining disasters play an important role in Irish folk music - "Tunnel Tigers" is dedicated to the miners who emigrated to the U.K. to find work and were involved in the construction of London´s "tube" more than 100 years ago. Various incidents in the mines of the Springhill coalfield of Nova Scotia inspired the song "Springhill Mine Disaster". More lighthearted are the gigs of musician Emma Sweeney, who released a album of Celtic (or folk inspired) music entitled "Pangea".

Dr. Richard "Geoman" Alley covers various classics, like "Ring of Fire", "Rocking Around the Silicates" and "Down Doo Bee Doo". And Marvin Pontiac (1932-1977) simply states "Bring Me Rocks- to study them".

Some songs are dedicated in general to geologists - like "The Geologists Are Coming!" by the "Amoeba People" (front cover of the respective album at the beginning of the post used with permission), or paleontologists, but sometimes also to specific geologists, like "Continental Drift! Alfred Wegener".

Volcanoes, Hot Lava, pyroclastic surges (the disaster of "Pompeii" inspired various songs) and earthquakes are also popular topics, especially for Californians with "Earthquake" performed by Cass Elliot - even specific fault systems, like the “San Andreas Fault” got songs. A cave inspired Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) to compose an ouverture.

And of course other geologists have other playlists, like Andrew Alsen or Erik Klemetti... more suggestions are welcome:

My name is David Bressan and I'm a freelance geologist working mainly in the Austroalpine crystalline rocks and the South Alpine Palaeozoic and Mesozoic cover-sediments in the Eastern Alps. I graduated with a project on Rock Glaciers dynamics and hydrology, this phase left a special interest for quaternary deposits and modern glacial environments. During my research on glaciers, studying old maps, photography and reports on the former extent of these features, I became interested in history, especially the development of geomorphologic and geological concepts by naturalists and geologists. Living in one of the key area for the history of geology, I combine field trips with the historic research done in these regions, accompanied by historic maps and depictions. I discuss broadly also general geological concepts, especially in glaciology, seismology, volcanology, palaeontology and the relationship of society and geology.

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