No one has said that the fracture pattern is not polygonal

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No one has said that the fracture pattern is not polygonal

E.P. Grondine — 10/11/2004 3:35:26 PM (archived)

as a matter of fact, the agents to create this polygonal fracture pattern may be right at hand, CO2 and sulfuric acid, and the release mechanism for them is obvious, impact, as there was no tectonic activity on Mars, ever: it does not have a massive Moon nearby.

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Stuff from the rovers - LJ - 10/7/2004 10:53:18 PM
- re: Stuff from the rovers - Raoul - 10/8/2004 7:33:21 AM
  - re Oppy pic: spectacular - aniel - 10/8/2004 8:38:34 PM
  - re: 2nd image is HUGE! - Marcia - 10/8/2004 12:15:21 PM
- re: Stuff from the rovers - Marcia - 10/7/2004 11:42:28 PM
  - Take a look at the APXS data for Ebenezer and Clovis. - Robert Clark - 10/8/2004 8:46:04 AM
    - re: Take a look at the APXS data for Ebenezer and Clovis. - Marcia - 10/9/2004 4:59:16 AM
      - re: Take a look at the APXS data for Ebenezer and Clovis. - Robert Clark - 10/13/2004 1:17:46 AM
      - Ebenezer and Clovis suggest volcanism - bruced - 10/9/2004 12:48:44 PM
        
        re: Ebenezer and Clovis suggest volcanism - Robert Clark - 10/13/2004 1:30:31 AM
        
        Indeed... - Nick Hoffman - 10/10/2004 1:08:58 AM
        
        re: Ebenezer and Clovis suggest volcanism - Robert Clark - 10/9/2004 7:20:04 PM
        
        re: Ebenezer and Clovis suggest volcanism - bruced - 10/10/2004 4:49:11 AM
        
        Greenhouses and Volcanism on Earth and Mars - Nick Hoffman - 10/10/2004 5:47:43 AM
        
        regular strata and the periodicity of cometary impact - E.P. Grondine - 10/10/2004 6:39:51 PM
        
        Impact history - Philip Simon - 10/11/2004 11:00:41 PM
        
        re: Impact history of Mars - E.P. Grondine - 10/12/2004 12:51:50 AM
        
        Partial agreement - Philip Simon - 10/15/2004 12:01:36 AM
  - Wopmay - jms - 10/8/2004 3:38:05 AM
    - re: Exquisitely argued - BRFelix - 10/9/2004 10:19:41 PM
    - The medium here is not calcium carbonate - E.P. Grondine - 10/9/2004 5:58:49 PM
      - Don't recall claiming it was CaCO3. - jms - 10/11/2004 4:15:28 AM
        
        "we start with what we know and work from there." - Nick Hoffman - 10/11/2004 12:38:06 PM
        
        reasoning by analogy - E.P. Grondine - 10/11/2004 3:42:26 PM
    - Curiouser and curiouser.... - Nick Hoffman - 10/9/2004 12:26:18 PM
      - re: Curiouser and curiouser.... - Marcia - 10/9/2004 2:27:30 PM
        
        re: ... must wake up though ... - Marcia - 10/9/2004 4:50:46 PM
        
        re:.. must wake up though ... Yeah, the medium here is not calcium carbonate - E.P. Grondine - 10/9/2004 5:23:12 PM
        
        get yourself a big chunk o' gypsum, and throw it off your roof... - jms - 10/11/2004 4:27:25 AM
        
        No one has said that the fracture pattern is not polygonal - E.P. Grondine - 10/11/2004 3:35:26 PM
        
        re: No one has said that the fracture pattern is not polygonal - Nathan Koren - 10/12/2004 3:35:46 AM
        
        So therefore the causative stresses were unlikely to be compressional... - jms - 10/12/2004 2:07:55 AM
        
        re: Acidic conditions/water and berries. - Marcia - 10/10/2004 7:33:46 PM
        
        re: Acidic conditions/water and berries. - E.P. Grondine - 10/11/2004 1:28:55 AM
        
        typo - E.P. Grondine - 10/9/2004 5:24:24 PM
    - re: Wopmay - Nick Hoffman - 10/8/2004 8:17:29 AM
      - Hydrothermal overtones - jms - 10/11/2004 3:48:52 AM
        
        re: The word: Thermophysical. - Marcia - 10/12/2004 5:06:57 AM
        
        Thermophysical vs hydrothermal - Nick Hoffman - 10/12/2004 8:54:50 AM
        
        re: Thermophysical vs hydrothermal - E.P. Grondine - 10/12/2004 9:28:22 PM
      - re: Wopmay - Marcia - 10/11/2004 1:25:43 AM
        
        Boiling gypsum mud. Wow. - jms - 10/11/2004 3:54:35 AM

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