Natural Science Forum

There is a chunk of quartz in our garden that came from the local area
(well, reasonably close). It appears unusual to me in that it is
rather vesicular. I don't recall seeing this type of composition in
quartz. The pores look similar to what one might see in pumice, except

ScienceDaily (Dec. 17, 2008) — Two giant plumes of hot rock deep
within the earth are linked to the plate motions that shape the
continents, researchers have found.
The two superplumes, one beneath Hawaii and the other beneath Africa,

... and nothing new under the Sun then !
The same ignorance, the same crude beliefs,  the same worthless
pursuit, the same bleating of a conditioned Humanity to its godly
Spooks and to its new godly Science for miracles !

I saw the following very hypothetical (i.e. lots of uncertainty) map
that supposes to show what the Earth's geography may have looked like
around 1100 Ma (Stenian period) ago:
http://www.palaeos.com/Proterozoic/Mesoproterozoic/Stenian.html

remote view:
http://cjoint.com/data/bhtK5q5Bz3.htm
close view:
http://cjoint.com/data/bhtKC31s4Z.htm

I saw this map:
http://www.scotese.com/precambr.htm
"This map illustrates the  break-up of the supercontinent, Rodinia,
which formed 1100 million years ago.   The Late Precambrian was  an

I had a quick look at a job database in order to check the quantity of
open earth jobs (coal and geology jobs) published these days in the
USA, Canada and the UK. Everybody is talking about the job crisis and
the shrinking economy and just wanted to know what is out there on the

I have a soil sample from Central California. It looks
suspiciously like CeO I have used for polishing optics,
but I realize it might be FeO.
Anyone know specific tests to verify if this is CeO.

I understand that there is a relatively remote locality in southern
Nevada where "sizeable" garnets can be found in rhyolite ashflow tuff,
possibly an ignimbrite, occuring on the flanks of a large Tertiary
volcano, most likely a large caldera ehich is not easily recognized as

I believe nephrite (New Zealand greenstone, pounamu) has a microscopically
fibrous structure.
What happens when you grind it to dust?
I have a small piece I'd like to work into a pendant.  If it breaks up

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Does anyone know the status of collecting at the Elwood mine area in
Tennessee.  It's near Carthage in Smith County.  Therre are numerous
references to material collected from these zinc mines, but there is
no evidence of any fee-pay or any other arrangement for collectors

MULTICONF-09 call for papers
The 2009 Multi Conference in Computer Science, Information Technology
and Control systems and Computational Science and Computer Engineering
(MULTICONF-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) will be held

Hello group.
First time posting here.
Does anyone know whether anyone is looking into what effect so much
additional carbon might have on lowering our oceans pH levels. It is a

I recently started studing ocean ciruculation and did not get the basic
idea how it works.
As a starting point I imagine a planet (perfect bowl) with flat ground,
water on top, no landmasses and equal solar radiation on all places. So

MULTICONF-09 call for papers
The 2009 Multi Conference in Computer Science, Information Technology
and Control systems and Computational Science and Computer Engineering
(MULTICONF-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) will be held

Concerning tide prediction . There is an observable cycle in the
tides of 723 days or 7 days less than 2 years.
The 2 principal harmonic sinusoidal components constituting tidal movements
are 12 hour (half day, S2) and 12.42060122 half lunar day cycle (M2). That

PhD Studentship joint between The University of Bristol and The
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
Topic: Applying Rule-Based Models to Sea Level Forecasting
Supervisors: Jonathan Lawry (University of Bristol), Kevin Horsburgh

Please see:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=even-skeptics-admin-global-warming-is-real-video

In the real world,
outside the fossil fuel industry's spin and lies,
global mean surface temperatures continue to rise.
Please see:

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6448061
David Christainsen - Meteorologist

Seems Tommy doesn't just plague Usenet, he harasses and spreads is
anti-Semitism on other online forums. Here's one example:
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=650&cpage=34#comment-67071
Which in turn led to some Google searching, which in turn revealed a

Want to SEE why all these mouth-breather tirades about winter cold
snaps are not relevant to the overall state of the world's climate?
Just go to http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ and search for keywords
like these:

A good excuse, if ever there was one, for jacking up insurance premiums!
6 Jan 2009
QUOTE: What is surprising is that the BBC have deemed the witterings of an
insurance company worthy of a news story, and moreover, that they have

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Have a look at this plot from
LKWY_SHZ_US ( Lake, Yellowstone Park, WY )
http://www.seis.utah.edu/helicorder/heli/yellowstone/Uuss.LKWY_SHZ_US.2009010500.gif
See the very regular, mechanical looking traces? Any idea what could cause

Bob Shannon here from Pinpoint Alternative Earthquake Newsletter
(*only a few might remember). I am wondering if anyone knows where or
if Dennis Gentry is or was or lay? Just a passing Q&hopefulA.
Bob Pinpoint Since 1992

When a volcano erupts, it leaves a "Crater", and generally the
mountain remains as with Crater Lake. When a "Super" volcano erupts
itt leaves a "Caldera"such as Yellowstone and Long Valley and the
mountain is gone, caved in on the empty magma chamber.

MAG  UTC DATE-TIME         LAT deg  LON deg   DEPTH   LOCATION
---  --------------------  -------  --------  ------
-----------------------------------------
3.2  2008/12/27, 22:30:03  44.495   -110.367  0.2 km  61 km (38 mi)

Since 22/27/08 there have been 500 earthquakes around Yellowstone.  Is the
super eruption that's the extinction level event ?