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glennwsmith
post Apr 1 2009, 02:28 AM
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All, I know this isn't the right place for this post, but I've looked around and can't find an appropriate, current UMSF forum (Doug, perhaps you could give me some guidance on establishing such) -- so here goes: I think a [the] new paradigm for Martian geology is rapidly coalescing, namely, that Mars is very much like the Earth in terms of the preponderance of water -- except that it is all frozen, and covered under a thin layer of dust/regolith! See, for example, this article:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/41995902.html

Hence the "seepages" found in crater walls; hence the evidence of catastophic flooding -- the result of volcanism melting huge pockets of ice. And I am going to add my own wrinkle (probably not original): that the differentiation of Mars into a rougher southern hemisphere and smoother northern hemsphere represents something like Earth's Pangea stage, ie, the northern hemisphere is a vast frozen sea covered with a thin layer of ice.
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post Oct 30 2009, 04:26 AM
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JohnVV -- way cool! My effort understandably did not pass Phil's muster, but perhaps yours will!
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- glennwsmith   Earthlike Mars?   Apr 1 2009, 02:28 AM
- - glennwsmith   Oops, of course I meant thin layer of dust, not ic...   Apr 1 2009, 02:31 AM
- - djellison   New thread to move Glens posts in to. And Glen -...   Apr 1 2009, 07:06 AM
- - dburt   QUOTE (glennwsmith @ Mar 31 2009, 07:28 P...   Apr 1 2009, 10:15 PM
- - glennwsmith   Dburt, thanks for the thoughtful summary. I think...   Apr 1 2009, 11:42 PM
- - MarsIsImportant   Was it really ever an uber continent at all? Perh...   Apr 2 2009, 01:39 PM
- - glennwsmith   Marsisimportant, thanks for adding the primeval co...   Apr 4 2009, 03:41 AM
- - imipak   A picture of Mars with somewhat ubiquitous sub-sur...   Apr 5 2009, 06:49 PM
|- - Fran Ontanaya   There's the Medusae Fossae radar profile. htt...   Apr 5 2009, 11:17 PM
- - glennwsmith   Imipak and Fran, thanks for the excellent addition...   Apr 5 2009, 11:48 PM
- - glennwsmith   On behalf of all who have joined this thread, I am...   Apr 6 2009, 02:16 AM
- - Geert   A very interesting picture and discussion. Howeve...   Apr 6 2009, 05:48 AM
- - djellison   So basically, it's Tim Parkers old Northern He...   Apr 6 2009, 07:27 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Glennwsmith, your map is OK ( and similar to other...   Apr 6 2009, 07:42 PM
|- - tim53   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 6 2009, 11:42 AM...   Apr 7 2009, 09:15 PM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (tim53 @ Apr 8 2009, 05:15 AM) But ...   Apr 9 2009, 12:19 PM
|- - tim53   QUOTE (Geert @ Apr 9 2009, 04:19 AM) I...   Apr 9 2009, 06:17 PM
- - glennwsmith   Geert, you are certainly justified in bringing up ...   Apr 7 2009, 12:02 AM
- - lyford   Can I just say that I love this board?   Apr 7 2009, 10:47 PM
- - glennwsmith   I would like to second Lyford's point, and add...   Apr 8 2009, 04:44 AM
|- - tim53   QUOTE (glennwsmith @ Apr 7 2009, 08:44 PM...   Apr 8 2009, 02:03 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Hi Tim - sorry about that, I had the order wrong. ...   Apr 8 2009, 09:33 PM
- - ngunn   Tim Parker I'm really delighted you're her...   Apr 8 2009, 10:29 PM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (ngunn @ Apr 8 2009, 06:29 PM) Tim ...   Apr 9 2009, 07:45 PM
- - ngunn   There was a nice paper that we discussed in an ear...   Apr 10 2009, 12:57 PM
- - marsbug   Reading this paper, which i'm sure most people...   Apr 18 2009, 12:26 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (marsbug @ Apr 18 2009, 08:26 AM) ....   Apr 18 2009, 06:41 PM
|- - marsbug   Isn't the phoenix data relating to thin films ...   Apr 19 2009, 09:52 AM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (marsbug @ Apr 19 2009, 04:52 PM) I...   Apr 19 2009, 12:34 PM
- - Fran Ontanaya   They'll need to reproduce the TECP results and...   Apr 19 2009, 05:17 PM
- - glennwsmith   The work of UMSF members has, on several occasions...   May 2 2009, 07:11 PM
- - dvandorn   My only problem with the concept going around that...   May 4 2009, 07:58 PM
|- - Tom Tamlyn   Doug, There's an interesting paper by Melosh ...   May 4 2009, 10:26 PM
- - Juramike   As part of an imaging project I've been planni...   May 5 2009, 12:14 AM
- - nprev   That's an interesting observation about Jupite...   May 5 2009, 01:38 AM
|- - serpens   I thought that MOLA had detected a heavily cratere...   May 5 2009, 09:24 AM
- - glennwsmith   Relative to the current discussion, check out this...   May 6 2009, 04:45 AM
- - marsbug   Some more modelling on the idea of early mars bein...   May 21 2009, 08:50 AM
|- - serpens   QUOTE (marsbug @ May 21 2009, 08:50 AM) ...   May 22 2009, 01:59 AM
- - marsbug   As I understand it we can explain the evidence of ...   May 22 2009, 10:12 AM
- - Doc   QUOTE (marsbug @ May 22 2009, 01:12 PM) A...   May 23 2009, 05:24 PM
- - glennwsmith   Whoa! Marsbug and Doc, thanks for alerting me...   May 24 2009, 10:36 PM
|- - dburt   Thanks for the emoticon, Glenn, but do you have a ...   May 25 2009, 07:26 AM
- - marsbug   QUOTE (dburt)....very ephemeral snowmelt in low el...   May 25 2009, 04:17 PM
|- - dburt   Thanks. No problem with that very good idea either...   May 25 2009, 06:01 PM
- - marsbug   An small impact could do a good job of mixing dark...   May 25 2009, 08:27 PM
|- - dburt   Interesting thought. In fact, I'd be surprised...   May 26 2009, 03:32 AM
- - marsbug   A press release from Prof Vincent Chevrier (who...   May 26 2009, 08:37 PM
|- - serpens   Thanks for posting the link Marsbug, it has all be...   May 27 2009, 02:40 AM
- - marsbug   I suspect it was introduced to the chambre to, but...   May 27 2009, 12:07 PM
- - glennwsmith   And here's something hot off the press from th...   Jun 6 2009, 07:40 PM
|- - serpens   As Glenwsmith indicated on another thread, Oceanus...   Jun 7 2009, 02:25 AM
- - glennwsmith   The possibility that there is a frozen Oceanus Bor...   Jun 23 2009, 02:26 AM
|- - serpens   http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2009/pdf/1939...   Jun 23 2009, 12:16 PM
|- - tim53   QUOTE (glennwsmith @ Jun 22 2009, 06:26 P...   Jun 23 2009, 09:53 PM
- - mhoward   Yeah, I'm no expert on these things, but I cri...   Jun 23 2009, 10:18 PM
|- - tim53   I hate the word "definitive." All it ta...   Jun 23 2009, 10:23 PM
- - SteveM   Agree that "definitive" is out of place ...   Jun 24 2009, 03:32 AM
|- - tim53   QUOTE (SteveM @ Jun 23 2009, 07:32 PM) Ag...   Jun 26 2009, 09:53 PM
- - glennwsmith   Serpens, thanks for the link to the actual Shalbat...   Jun 27 2009, 05:41 PM
- - MarsIsImportant   I suppose it would help to see the images before r...   Jun 30 2009, 07:23 PM
- - Marz   FYI: NOVA's latest Mars show, "Is There ...   Jul 1 2009, 06:10 AM
- - Dominik   Too sad, it's only available for the audience ...   Jul 1 2009, 07:39 PM
|- - SFJCody   I imagine life could certainly have occurred on Ma...   Jul 1 2009, 08:13 PM
- - Juramike   Well....looking at the morphology of the channel n...   Jul 10 2009, 03:49 AM
|- - SFJCody   QUOTE (Juramike @ Jul 10 2009, 04:49 AM) ...   Jul 10 2009, 07:13 AM
- - glennwsmith   Here's an interesting reference (on an interes...   Aug 2 2009, 11:47 PM
|- - stewjack   For those who wanted to watch the NOVA show Is Th...   Aug 3 2009, 02:36 AM
|- - kohare   QUOTE For those who wanted to watch the NOVA show ...   Aug 3 2009, 09:41 PM
|- - RJG   Quite by chance I found that I could watch it on m...   Aug 3 2009, 10:34 PM
|- - stewjack   QUOTE (kohare @ Aug 3 2009, 04:41 PM) But...   Aug 3 2009, 11:53 PM
- - glennwsmith   Just a reminder to participants in this thread (wh...   Sep 14 2009, 03:02 AM
- - Juramike   Hmmm. Not sure on that. If I got it right, the v...   Sep 14 2009, 04:33 AM
- - glennwsmith   Yet another indication of -- dare I say it -- wate...   Sep 16 2009, 05:01 AM
- - Fran Ontanaya   If those cracks are so ancient, why aren't the...   Sep 16 2009, 07:09 PM
- - dvandorn   I would say that ground cracks that aren't fil...   Sep 17 2009, 01:03 AM
- - glennwsmith   There's a new report out that results from the...   Sep 22 2009, 12:57 AM
- - glennwsmith   Two back-to-back articles on the JPL web site abou...   Sep 25 2009, 12:23 AM
- - MarsIsImportant   hhmmm! So water ice and sublimation is a much ...   Sep 25 2009, 12:53 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (MarsIsImportant @ Sep 24 2009, 05...   Sep 25 2009, 01:49 AM
- - climber   "Water" on Mars guys! Ice visible at...   Sep 25 2009, 05:45 AM
|- - serpens   QUOTE (climber @ Sep 25 2009, 06:45 AM) ...   Sep 25 2009, 08:58 AM
- - Julius   i think we should perhaps revisit Viking 2 science...   Sep 25 2009, 05:21 PM
- - Fran Ontanaya   Well, at the scalloped terrain of Utopia Planitia ...   Sep 26 2009, 01:55 PM
- - Julius   Are we sure those craters spotted recently are imp...   Sep 26 2009, 06:54 PM
|- - djellison   If you can suggest a method by which they can sudd...   Sep 26 2009, 10:14 PM
- - glennwsmith   Does anyone have a sense of the distribution of th...   Sep 30 2009, 03:03 AM
- - glennwsmith   In an earlier post in this thread, I made the not-...   Oct 28 2009, 04:58 AM
- - JohnVV   QUOTE In an earlier post in this thread, I made th...   Oct 29 2009, 03:06 AM
- - glennwsmith   JohnVV -- way cool! My effort understandably ...   Oct 30 2009, 04:26 AM
- - JohnVV   QUOTE My effort understandably did not pass Phil...   Oct 30 2009, 08:44 PM
- - glennwsmith   Re the recent LCROSS press conference: At least s...   Nov 13 2009, 05:52 PM
- - nprev   Uh...Not to put a damper on the ecstasy, Glenn, bu...   Nov 13 2009, 08:37 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (nprev @ Nov 13 2009, 03:37 PM) Uh....   Nov 13 2009, 09:04 PM
- - imipak   Luo and Serpinski, "Computer-generated global...   Nov 23 2009, 09:02 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Oh dear... I dreaded this. It all looks so good. ...   Nov 23 2009, 09:57 PM
- - JohnVV   QUOTE Oh dear... I dreaded this. your statements a...   Nov 23 2009, 11:51 PM
- - Phil Stooke   The map is very nice - but look how it's sudde...   Nov 24 2009, 02:57 PM
- - glennwsmith   imipak, a most interesting post! And Phil, yo...   Nov 25 2009, 03:56 AM
- - nprev   True. Considering that even the lunar maria were c...   Nov 25 2009, 05:19 AM
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