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Volcanism and the tides of life

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Date: 2009-06-18 19:15:53
Blog: The Volcanism Blog
URL: http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/volcanism-and-the-tides-of-life/

Summary:

If the tidal forces of strong gravitational fields are constantly twisting a planet’s guts like a strong man squeezing the pips out of a lemon and generating continual paroxysms of violent volcanism then it’s probably not an ideal environment for life, says a confused article from ScienceNOW (the ‘caps lock stuck’ people). The foremost example of [...]

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caps, foremost example, gravitational fields, guts, paroxysms, strong man, tidal forces, tides, volcanism

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