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My own taste in science fiction leans not so much toward the great achievements of intellect created by Isaac Asimov, Philip Dick, or Arthur C. Clarke, but to the pulp fiction comics of the mid-twentieth century with its strong visual imagery. This genre of popular art has been celebrated in the “Star Wars” movies.
Soils of other planets expand our view of the role of soils and life in planetary evolution. Mars, Venus, and our Moon provide an array of alternatives for reconstructing the evolution of weathering on the very earliest Earth.
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Retallack, G.J. (2022). Soils in Space. In: Soil Grown Tall. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88739-1_14
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