{"id":6852,"date":"2011-10-29T11:50:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T16:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2011-10-29T11:50:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T16:50:55","slug":"scenic-halloween-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2011\/10\/scenic-halloween-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenic Halloween Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/span>As the leaves turn and colder nights draw in, let us journey to a mysterious country that holds an even more mysterious glowing orange pit. Halloween is upon us, so could we be looking on a newly-opened gateway to the demonic realms? Well no, but I doubt that I need to tell you that. <\/p>\n

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An spooky orange glow lights an.... orange landscape?!<\/p><\/div>\n

Your more prosaic geological instincts might point out a superficial resemblence to some kind of volcanic vent, and they’d be right – especially about the superficial part. Behold the volcanic pumpkin!<\/p>\n

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An erupting pumpkin.<\/p><\/div>\n

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You can too get bifurcating lava flows.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I was also running an experiment in how much pumpkin you could carve away before it collapsed.<\/p><\/div>\n

Yes, this is my attempt to give our doorstep this weekend a somewhat geological flavour. I must confess that I find it rather puzzling that a country that wrings its hands over the demonic influences in Harry Potter<\/a>* throws itself so enthusiastically into this stuff – I’ve been walking past gardens decorated with pumpkins, skeletons, and gravestones for at least the past week. But I have been getting into the spirit of the thing by trying my unpracticed hand at pumpkin carving, and the caldera-like glow emanating from the top of my first effort, pictured below, gave me the idea. <\/p>\n

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A more standard effort. <\/p><\/div>\n

I was considering something considerably more nerdy for the Accretionary Wedge geo-pumpkin challenge<\/a>, but the magma pumpkin generates a faint air of menance that is possibly more in the spirit of the season. <\/p>\n

*which, if you ask me, not so much misses the point as misses the solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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