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Hello everyone,
It’s my turn again to host the geoblogosphere’s blog carnival, The Accretionary Wedge. This month for the Wedges thirteenth edition the theme, as chosen by me, is:
Geology in Space (pronounced Geologeeeeee in Spaaaaaaaace).
Geology doesn’t just happen here on Earth, it’s happening everywhere there’s a small amount of silicates being drawn together by gravity. This month, give yourself a few hours, pick a body within the solar system, and tell the world about the geology that goes on there. You could talk about yardangs on Mars, the extreme tectonics of Venus, the enormous equaitorial ridge on Saturn’s moon Iapetus, what the HED meteorites tell us about 4 Vesta, or anything else that may tickle your geological interest.
The Earth is so huge and varied geologically, just think about what else is going on, on the other 7 planets and thousands of other bodies in the solar system.
I’ll be handing my MSc thesis (which deals with the formation of the solar system) in on the 25th of September, so that’s the date for everyone to get their submissions to me on the weird and wonderful things that have happened since. Either email me (chris (-then the usual symbol-) goodshist.com), or post a link in the comment thread of this post.
Happy writing!
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cool … this’ll be a good one
Greetings geobloggers of the third planet of eight, orbiting a medium sized star
just finished the last checking on my contribution to this month Accretionary Wedge.
Space – the final frontier in permafrost research:
http://rockglacier.blogspot.com/2008/09/permafrost-from-mars.html
Waiting for other submissions until 25.09
End transmission
David
Posted! I have two of them for you.
The first, comes from my colleague, Peter Polito and deals with Titan:
http://geology.rockbandit.net/2008/09/21/titan-channels-what-we-know-four-and-half-years-later-accretionary-wedge/
The second is my piece and deals with Volcanism on Io:
http://geology.rockbandit.net/2008/09/21/extraterrestrial-volcanism-on-io-accretionary-wedge/
My effort on the Cambrian on Venus can be found at …
http://hypocentre.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/accretionary-wedge-13-the-cambrian-on-venus/
My attempt concerning impact craters can be found at http://geologyhappens.blogspot.com/2008/09/carnival-in-space-accretionary-wedge-13.html
Here is my post about Pluto
http://poolsandriffles.blogspot.com/2008/09/geology-of-pluto.html
go here for my submission
Thanks to everyone who’s contributed so far. This is going to be a good one : )
For those who haven’t posted anything yet, don’t worry. You’ve got a couple more days until I hit the publish button.
I have a contribution at http://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/09/done-with-domes-accretionary-wedge-13.html. Thanks for hosting!
Here is my contribution! (Mostly just me gushing over pretty rocks, but hey, isn’t that we do?)
Chris, here is my submission.
My contribution is at http://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/09/done-with-domes-accretionary-wedge-13.html. Thanks for hosting!
Silver Fox persuaded me to pitch in to the wedge: here you go.here you go
Space – the final frontier in permafrost research:
http://rockglacier.blogspot.com/2008/09/permafrost-from-mars.html