"Thomas Lee Elifritz" wrote in message
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February 22, 2005

dar7yl wrote:

I can hardly look at that stuff and keep a straight face any more.
Check it out!

Ok, you aren't interested in alien terrain, maybe someone else is :

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spi...0P2373R1M1.JPG

Looks like the same old schist to me.

I completely fail to see how they could be shists, given their location
and morphology. That would involve tectonism, which is absent
at this location.

Of course, NASA insists there is a prosaic explanation for all this,
surely only ordinary basalts, nothing more, nothing less.
Of course, I disagree.

Of course, you would have to disagree.
You are disagreeable in nature.

Only when the evidence does not support the assertion.

These basalts seem fractured, exhumed, mixed, impact deposited,
covered by water rich, impact derived ash precipitation, frozen,
rethawed, and it looks to me like they are covered with
microbiological mats, which are decomposing the original
basalts, and reprecipitating them into cementateous
conglomerates and metabolite salts, and then
sloughing off the rocks as they decompose.

This whole scene reeks of water and (fossil) life.



When I look at that pic it appears to be what's left
of an old hydrothermal vent. Like this maybe....

http://www.nps.gov/yell/slidefile/th...ages/06197.jpg




Thomas Lee Elifritz
http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net




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