{"id":6115,"date":"2011-05-23T17:09:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2011-05-23T17:10:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:10:19","slug":"new-at-erratics-chalk-is-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2011\/05\/new-at-erratics-chalk-is-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"New at Erratics: Chalk is weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for <a href=\"http:\/\/entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/accretionary-wedge-34-call-for-posts.html\">the upcoming Accretionary Wedge<\/a> is &#8216;weird geology&#8217;. In <a href=\"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/erratics\/2011\/05\/chalk-is-weird\/\">his contribution<\/a>, Simon Wellings takes a look at what might superficially appear to be an unlikely subject: the chalk that forms the rolling hills of southern England:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No texture, no mineralogical variation, no structure, what a bore; when I moved \u2018down South\u2019 and first encountered it I was almost offended by its dullness. I\u2019m a hard-rock man by preference, but even the Carboniferous sediments I grew up with have cross-bedding, variation in colour and other nice things that distract you from the fact that they are only sediments. <strong>Chalk is weirdly dull<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/erratics\/2011\/05\/chalk-is-weird\/\">Head over to Earth Science Erratics for the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: Earth Science Erratics welcomes contributions from anyone who is tempted to dip their toes into the geoblogging waters, for one post or several, or from new bloggers who want to promote their work through cross-posting. If you\u2019re interested, <a href=\"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/erratics\/want-to-write-for-us\/\">please contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for the upcoming Accretionary Wedge is &#8216;weird geology&#8217;. In his contribution, Simon Wellings takes a look at what might superficially appear to be an unlikely subject: the chalk that forms the rolling hills of southern England: No texture, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2011\/05\/new-at-erratics-chalk-is-weird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[426,427],"class_list":["post-6115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-rocks-minerals","tag-chalk","tag-weird-geology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6119,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}