Disadvantages Of Geologists

Prorates of Geologists in Movies, Fact or Fiction Geology is one of the STEM practices that doesn't get much attention in mainstream spaces. Many relatively recentresent films, such as the movie 2012 shows, white collar scientists collarcolor scientists delving? into a mine, andor pouringporing over data on a computer before to big disaster. Then you have movies like Armageddon and Volcano, where the brave geologist must work on the proverbial front lines to save humanity from the impending natural disaster. Regardless of examples, geologists have a rather interesting position as being portrayed usually as the good guys, where as any other STEM profession is about fifty fifty hero or villain. Example "evil" characters being Walter White from

The earliest characters that were show as geologist where in westerns. One film in 1944 "Marked Trails" has a oil-prospecting geologists, which is portrayed as wandering around the place making note and setting fires on gas seeps. Going into the 1950s Is when Geologist start taking action roles such as 1957 film The Monolith Monsters. Another change in the nuclear age and cold war era was now some geologist are the bad guys. 1962 the film Dr. No has a murdering geologist that is part of a criminal uranium mining syndicate. The 1965 film "Crack in the World" not only has the first female geologist, but also the film idea of geologist using nuclear weapons to manipulate the earth's crust. Which is followed by the bond film 1985s "A View to Kill", which takes elements from both "Dr. No" with two evil geologists and "Crack in the World" for wanting to generate a large earthquake. should be noted the bond girl of the film was also a geologist. Going into the 1990s geo disaster movies came into its prime with "Dante's Peak" and "Volcano" both in 1997, and Armageddon fallowing the next year. Over all the movie industry does seem to view geologists as relatively good people, with a job that has a apparent high death rate. As with time the kinds of deaths geologist face has changed regularly. From,from oil mineral prospecting to monster and war movies on into criminal organizations and geo-disaster

The main plot starts with Pierce Brosnans character Harry Dolton, a volcanologist, going to a small town of Dante's Peak to investigate some reports of activity and to possibility of an eruption. When he confirms to seismic activity he has now a real world dilemma that geologist struggle with. Does he send out a early warning to the town and evacuate it saving people or risk crying wolf if the volcano does not erupt which would hurt the town economically as it relies on tourism. This point is something that would have happened in the resents past of the film's production with the false alarm of Mammoth Mountain in the 1980s and the eruption of Mt Saint Helens where the geologist were far early in their predictions. The Geologist themselves in the film are depicted in what has become something of a stereotype. Plaid shirts, poring over pictures of rocks and drinking a lot of either individually or a mixture of coffee, beer and whiskey. Other than the people, the eruption was rather accurate, thought with some exaggeration. The eruption process was on par with first steam eruption before the main eruption. Scenes of the acidic lake is also realistic, but the lava is far from true for the region. What is seen is Hawaiian-type basalt lava flows which would not fit, nor the way the pyroclastic flows seen in the movie. To be fair to the movie, at least they did call