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Geology: Oddball Geological Features: Part 5 - The Cryovolcanoes of Enceladus

Have you ever heard about volcano's spitting out snow?! Well its a thing and @keephy is here to tell you all about it. Sadly they do not occur on our planet. How lovely would it be to build snow angels under an erupting volcano, that sounds like every geologists heaven. They probably are not really that pleasant, looking at all the other elements shooting out, but hey, we can dream.

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Amongst all the terrestrial objects in our solar system, it's the planetary satellites (moons) that orbit the major planets that, geologically speaking, I'm finding to be the most intriguing. This sentiment is largely based on the fact that there are so many of them to study! For example— Did you know Saturn has 53 confirmed moons? Jupiter has an even higher tally with a grand total of 63 confirmed moons! If you noticed the emphasis I'm putting on "confirmed," it's because astronomers are under the impression that more moons will in all likelihood be discovered. From a geological standpoint, the shear abundance of planetary satellites in our solar system would give geologists an incredible opportunity to better understand how our solar system formed billions of years ago. While many of these moons resemble a large asteroid, some of them have geological features that make them entirely unique to their counterparts.

Geography: Google Earth pearls #8: River piracy, aaar

Yes rivers can be pirates to! Don't ruin their dreams!

There actually is something called river piracy and @ignacepelckmans found a perfect example in again a beautiful google earth satellite image. If you want to see rivers with a wooden leg and an eye patch, read this article! (No 100% guarantee for actual pirates)

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Welcome in Alaska, more specifically: welcome at the Kaskawulsh glacier. Glaciers are always quite spectacular from the air, whether it is from an airplane or on Google Earth. I am, however, not showing just a random glacier. Glaciers melt during summer, that's just what they do. As a consequence, there is always a river at the tongue (the bottom part) of a glacier. But, if you look closely at today's picture, you can see two rivers originating at the glacier. A long, long time ago the glacier reached further towards the West and there was only one river.

Ecology: Day 1 of Volunteer Naturalist Training

Have you ever wondered what a naturalist training in boulder county (Colorado) would be like? @jayjayjeffery went on the adventure and recently started writing about it. The blog is nice to read and might we worth to check out in the future.

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I just started volunteering for the Boulder Country Parks and Open Space Department. Why? My coworkers keep asking me this. Why would I give up my time for no money at all? Am I crazy?

Well of course I am but that's not why I chose to do this. Actually it hadn't even crossed my mind until I spoke with a guy I know from the salvage yard I work at. I got into a conversation with Dave and found out that he's a master blacksmith!? What?! I've always wanted to learn how to blacksmith.

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