This fall I challenged the internet to carve geologically-themed pumpkins for the holidays. The results have run the gamut from paleontological to volcaniclastic. So before we head into the snowier holidays, here’s a gallery of everyone’s creative efforts:
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Pumpkinosaurs
Brian Switek features some very elaborate and beautiful dinosaurs carved into America’s favorite gourd.
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Volcanic Pumpkin
 Chris Rowan carves for us a pumpkin eruption, glowing with with basaltic goodness.
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Plinian Pumpkin
 @Geek2Slick gives us this explosive pumpkin eruption complete with apparent pyroclastic flows.
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Laramide Pumpkin
 This is no mere pumpkin… It is part of an orogenic event! It fills me with an inexplicable desire to go back to Colorado.
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Pyroclastic Pumpkin
 We’ve got a lot of pumpkins that go boom this year. @meagenpollock gives us this beauty.
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Aztec Eruption Pumpkin
 I love this artistic take on an old Aztec painting of an eruption event from Jessica Ball. Brilliant!
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Turbidite Pumpkin
 Giving us a break from the realm of the igneous, @ZaneJobe gives us this turbidite sequence geo-lantern.
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Pumpkin Geode
 It is now one of my greatest wishes to one day crack open a pumpkin and find this inside! Ann also gives us images of other gourds that look like they’re magnificent geo-finds.
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Mafic Inclusion Pumpkin
 Dana is the only one who did what I thought a lot of people would do… she painted her pumpkin! Click the image to see her inspiration.
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Parasaurolophus Pumpkin
 Last, but certainly not least, we have a geo-lantern straight from the Jurassic! I absolutely love this one! So cute!
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About michaelklaas
Michael Klaas is a student at Portland State University.
What fun! Most often, I’ve seen the bulk of entries before they get posted in the AW, but not this time. Thanks for doing this.
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