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[Musings by Talitha Santini] The first article for the revived Journal Club was ‘Jarosite as an indicator of water-limited chemical weathering on Mars' (Elwood Madden et al. [2004] Nature, 431:821-823), chosen by Talitha because it was a short and reasonably simple article about soils on another planet. The authors used observations of ...

[Edit at 29 May 2009 - the date has been shifted to Wednesday 3 June]   The poster at right was prepared by Talitha to publicise the first meeting of the Soil Science Journal Club for 2009...   ...we'll be discussing the article: Madden MEE, Bodnar RJ, Rimstidt JD. 2004. Jarosite as an indicator of water-limited chemical ...

Musings on:Anand RR, Cornelius M, Phang C, 2007. Use of vegetation and soil in mineral exploration in areas of transported overburden, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a contribution towards understanding metal transportation processes.Geochemistry-Exploration Environment Analysis, 7: 267-288. The use of soils and vegetation as sample media for ...

...musings on Amundson R, Ewing S, Dietrich W, Sutter B, Owen J, Chadwick OA, Nishiizumi K, Walvoord M, McKay C. 2008. On the in situ aqueous alteration of soils on Mars. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72:3845-3864. It's great when an article related to one's own discipline is about something exotic, and it would be hard to imagine a more exotic ...

Just rode my bike back from what will be my last lecture of the Semester. Just over half the class of Introduction to Geochemistry students gained (hopefully!) some benefit from working through past exam questions. I reminded myself, inadvertently, that there is not really that much to be said about a topic in three weeks of lectures. ...