{"id":2303,"date":"2010-04-13T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2010-04-13T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T16:18:09","slug":"pathological-geomorphology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/04\/pathological-geomorphology\/","title":{"rendered":"pathological geomorphology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n[Russian thermokarst near Nova Zembla<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve been tremendously entertained lately by Pathological Geomorphology<\/a>, a blog run by “a loosely defined and unified group of geobloggers”\u00a0which catalogs “images of extreme landscapes, landforms, and processes”. \u00a0 April is “delta month” (or, as one of their bloggers put it, “April deltas bring May fold and thrust belts”), so far encompassing a paleo-delta in the African Rift Valley<\/a>, a river in Botswana which vanishes into the desert<\/a> as it feeds into a basin so dry that it runs out of water without encountering any other waterbody, the “wave-influenced” “single-channel” morphology of the Danube delta<\/a>, the gorgeous geometry of the Volga delta<\/a>, a\u00a0Madagascaran delta<\/a> whose reddish waters are evidence of upstream deforestation, and many others. \u00a0My personal favorite is perhaps the Las Vegas Wash<\/a>, “an\u00a0ephemeral drainage that has ‘gone all perennial on us’ as a persistent\u00a0conduit of treated wastewater and an intermittent conduit of copious\u00a0amounts of storm runoff from mall and casino parking lots” — ‘Anthropocene’<\/a> pathological geomorphology, in other words.<\/p>\n

You’ll find much more (educational!) entertainment in their archives, from Brazilian contrasts between coastal dune formations and sweeping rivers<\/a> to Algerian sedimentary folds exposed as modernist land art by aeolian processes<\/a>, all of it clear fodder for landscape experiments to be run by budding architects.<\/p>\n

[link to Pathological Geomorphology via <\/em>@bldgblog<\/em><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Russian thermokarst near Nova Zembla] I’ve been tremendously entertained lately by Pathological Geomorphology, a blog run by “a loosely defined and unified group of geobloggers”\u00a0which catalogs “images of extreme landscapes, landforms, and processes”. \u00a0 April is “delta month” (or, as one of their bloggers put it, “April deltas bring May fold and thrust belts”), so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,25],"tags":[245,842,372],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-landscape","category-landscapes-in-search-of-an-architect","tag-geology","tag-landscape","tag-satellite-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}