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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..

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Water in really big groups of hot rocks: When you can’t say “hydrothermal alteration and lava dome collapse hazards”

By now you've hopefully seen the geo-meme that Anne Jefferson over at Highly Allocthonous started using the Up-Goer-Five text editor, which forces you to write a description of something using only the thousand most commonly used words in the English language. (It's based off of this XKCD comic.) Anne challenged the geobloggers to write about their own research using this method, and as much as I enjoy adapting my writing for a wide audience (that's why I got into blogging!), it's darn hard to write about hydrothermal alteration in lava domes when you can't use any of those words (not even dome). Thank goodness rock is still in there, or I'd be in trouble! As it is, I had a bit of trouble describing lava domes and hydrothermal circulation:

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