cirrus, petrified
*
Plate XXI A
Fine-grained white marble with faint grayish-green veins, from Alaska-Shamrock Marble Co.’s property, Dickman Bay.
illustrating Ernest F. Burchard. Marble Resources of Southeastern Alaska, With a section on the geography and geology by Theodore Chapin.
USGS Bulletin 682 (1920): 1-118
cirrus, see
The Weather Observer / Technical Manual (June 29, 1942) *
—
an’ tho’ a cloud’s shape nor hue nor size don’t stay the same, it’s still a cloud an’ so is a soul.
ex David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2004)
See also The weather, I think, must be changing (March 2012 — 1,
2 and
3).
tags: clouds; marble; metamorphosis; meteorology; storms
Ernest F. Burchard; David Mitchell