“Thy friendship makes us fresh”: Charles, King of France, Act III, Scene III (Henry VI, Part 1, by William Shakespeare)

Abstract

Friendship does indeed make us fresh—fresh in our enthusiasm, fresh in our creativity, and fresh in our collaborative potential. Indeed, it is the growing friendship between petrology and geochronology that has given rise to the new field of petrochronology. This, in turn, has opened a new array of methods to investigate the history of the geologic processes that are encoded (oh, so tantalizingly close!) in rocks, and to develop a broad new array of questions about those processes. All friendships have their initiations …