In our study of our own Earth we have found patterns in erosion and the landscape made from years of runoff. Anyone who has ever looked at the landscape from a vantage point can see the patterns and the similarities. Is there such a thing as patterns of erosion? Have we found similar patterns here on Earth as we have on the surface of Mars? Actually we have.

Anyone who has been a pilot and has flown over the desert, over a mountain range or even in a glider using the areas updrafts and downdrafts understands that patterns of erosion do exist. We know that the fluid dynamics used by water, pressure or heat, which slowly over time brings mountain into river and eventually into silt, has patterns of erosion from top to bottom. In fact some of the best farmland in the world will appear at the bottom of a mountain range where the water has washed the sediment into a valley. Or where a glacier has grinded away rock into fine sand, where a volcano has spread itself out over large area and overtime makes with the dust, dirt and other factors mentioned into a flat plain.

We see all this on Mars as well. But cultures have been studying these things on Earth for centuries. Without getting into the debate between the Neptunists and the Plutonists or why the seashells are in the Alps and amongst the rocks and mountains at the highest elevations or why plate Tectonics exist, form, fold under and renew or how volcanoes form or earthquakes occur in this discussion, it is safe to say that what Hutton and the others debated in the royal society of Edinburgh and others in the Geological Societies of the 1830s all 745 of them did indeed understand that nature is a brilliant set of interconnected systems and it