If you haven’t already checked it out, the latest Accretionary Wedge went up while I was away, stacked full of entertaining musings from your favorite geobloggers about the role of geology, and geologists, in the entertainment industry. Or, as our host Tuff Cookie puts it:
“How Hollywood manages to screw up, in movie and/or TV form, the science that it took me multiple years, pints of blood and continuing therapy sessions to learn, and why I can’t be held legally responsible for my reaction when the students in my intro classes spout it back at me on exams.”
I remembered another irritating example whilst I was away, which coincidentally also features Pierce Brosnan of Dante’s Peak infamy, this time busy in his James Bond tuxedo. In the fairly atrocious Die Another Day, he makes the shocking discovery that the main supervillain’s diamond mine in Iceland is in fact a front for selling conflict diamonds from Africa. Since in reality, diamonds are only brought to the surface in kimberlites, which are the result of the deep melting of continental lithosphere, a diamond mine smack bang in the middle of an ocean turning out to be a fake would be no surprise to any of the geologists that MI6 didn’t consult…
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