‘The Egg of Columbus’

What was Krahmann’s theory? It was simplicity itself to those who knew the regularity of the Witwatersrand formations. Forty years of mining had proved that the geological strata, despite faults here and there, had been laid down with the precision of a mass-produced layer cake and if there was one thing that was certain in an uncertain world it was that where the Main Reef was found, the shales of the Lower Witwatersrand Series would be found some 400 feet below it. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Epistemology · Great barrier reef · Mining engineering · Reef · Series (stratigraphy) · Simplicity · Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping · Geological and Geophysical Studies · Geological formations and processes · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology · Philosophy