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BOSTON NURSERY RHYME: RHYME FOR A GEOLOGICAL BABY, by                    
First Line: Trilobite, grapholite, nautilus pie
Last Line: Lias and trias and that is enough.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cook, Joseph
Subject(s): Geology


TRILOBITE, Grapholite, Nautilus pie;
Seas were calcareous, oceans were dry.
Eocene, miocene, pliocene Tuff,
Lias and Trias and that is enough.





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