Fictional Planet Ballardia
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چکیده
The Rock Cycle is a useful pedagogical device. Science-fiction novelist James G. Ballard published a colorful description of a nameless fictional world in 1957 that has an artificially closed Rock Cycle. Were such an anthropogenic cycle instigated for Earth, it would be consistent with James Hutton’s viewpoint on the Earth as a self-repairing machine without an endogenetic end to planetary Geological Time in sight. The fictional world imagined by Ballard can be used as a teaching example in Earth System Science because it will appeal to youths reared with Science Fiction publications and television and because the visual appeal of Ballard’s images are so compelling to unfettered minds.
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