Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / June 2004

Has anyone ever seen said JPT?   Do we know whether or not he is serious?
Do we know where "he" really lives?
Don't mean to stir anything up worse than already,  but he is more
frightening and sadder (if indeed he is not a hoaxer) than most things I

Dear Smithsonian:
As you're undoubtedly aware, I've been waiting rather patiently --

Dear Smithsonian:
As you're undoubtedly aware, I've been waiting rather patiently --

http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2004/story06-18-04.html
New findings suggest that surface geometry determines volcanic activity (to see
the graphics, go to the link)
What causes the peaks and valleys of the world's great mountains? For

Here are  more pix of one hemisphere of the petrified
human brain found between anthracite veins.

My wife and I just got back from a trip to South Dakota.  We visited the
Badlands, and the Black Hills.  For anyone interested, I posted some pictures of
the trip at the link below.  More will be forthcoming in the near future.
http://tinyurl.com/3x893

Floods.  So, ..there is a bit of condensation and precipitation.
("traces")  What's the deal?  What about *THE APOCALYPSE*? - the
global shoving-up of mountain belts, plateaus, crustal platforms,
coastal plains...  What does all this busines of 'floods' have

PLEASE, DO excuse my ignorance, I grew up in a land (Veracruz, Mexico)
full of monogenetic (is this the right term, you know, one zit pops)
cones and a lot of oil trapped under salt domes but am neither a
geologist nor do I play one on tv.  What occurs --if there has been

...for the global distribution of stratigraphic sequence as
first-order support *FOR* Earth Expansion and *AGAINST* plate
tectonics.  Plate tectonics can't explain the exhumation of a worldful
of all but flat stratigraphic sequence on the continental crust.

Cartsen: Why does a vertical waterspout stop rising, flatten and pour to the
sides?
More interesting, is the Coriolis effect.

Here's a photo with one of the best resolutions yet obtained of Burns
Hill.  In the top left of the photo there are two sets of bedding
planes going at different angles to each other.  This a good example
of crossbedding within the layered unit and clearly shows these

Polar icecap melting doesn't suggest a good future for beach
communities.
How much flooding and damage can one expect on beach or coastal
communities in the next decade.

I'm hoping someone from among these newsgroups might help (and have
posted to across three newsgroups in the hope someone would be kind
enough to answer).
Recently I've got hold of the C++ source written by Chuck Gantz for UTM

Recently I have been reading a book on rocks and minerals and an idea
struck me. I know, ideas can be dangerous, but anyway.
What would some future geologist find if, say, a city was covered by
sediment long after it had fell into ruin and then subducted and