Pathological Geomorphology... hard to define, but you know it when you see it.

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Over the weekend I pondered setting up yet another blog (the disorder is called schizoblogophrenia) to be dedicated to images of extreme, bizarre, incredible, shocking, or otherwise intriguing landscapes and landforms of the Earth. This was brought on by searching Google Earth, Google Maps, Bing Maps, and Flash Earth for my contribution to a recent Where on (Google) Earth competition...I settled for something I already knew about, but found some amazing places in the process. The brief experience of seeking a weird site brought back lots of memories of scouring atlases and coveting every published compilation of satellite imagery of the Earth back when I was much younger. I concluded that a group blog would be a far better way to pursue this goal and have invited people to contribute. So far, some takers. It is a Posterous blog called Pathological Geomorphology. I chose the Posterous platform because it is really simple, clean, and easy to combine multiple collaborators. Let me know if you want to contribute. There are no expectations of post frequency, only  some general guidelines laid out in the blog's first post: http://geopathology.posterous.com/what-and-why. It is also likely that I or another contributor will put out an occasional call for some thematic pathological imagery posts for the group to find (i.e., extreme alluvial channel patterns, awesome alluvial fans, baffling thermokarst, etc., you name it). A blog such as this has the potential to develop a useful catalog of images and related concepts for purposes of education, research, and constructive procrastination.

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