Geo — sometimes short for George — for example, Geo (pronounced Joe) Roeder of Grand National motorcycle dirt track racing fame, who carried national number 66 and, along with brother Jess, followed in the footsteps of their also-famous dad, George Roeder, Sr., (national number 94) in his career with “rolling thunder”. Go straight, turn left — but at 100 or so miles per hour on a dirt half mile. (More to come on dirt track racing in the Monkeys, Motorcycles…category on the blog.)
Geo has also been the name of a car model (a small vehicle which probably could not keep up with Geo Roeder’s 750 Harley).
Geo also means “earth” as in geology, study of earth. Animal-vegetable-mineral — everything on the planet is some form of those. Geology deals with rocks (minerals), and rocks can be igneous such as granite (formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava) , sedimentary such as limestone and shale (formed by the deposition of material at the Earth’s surface and within bodies of water), or metamorphic such as marble and quartzite (pre-existing rock mass in which new minerals or textures are formed at higher temperatures and greater pressures than those present on the Earth’s surface). Take a loupe (that little jeweler’s magnifying tool) and examine a rock. Find the pockets of druzy, the veins of minerals, the layers amassed from years of evolution. Fascinating!!