Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / December 2004

They have just completed an install of one of these about 150 meters
from my home within the past month or so. The folks took off just before
I got a chance to speak with them.
Anyway, I was wondering why they have installed one of these in an area

Summary:
Consequences of global warming are far more serious than previously
imagined. These consequences relate to the newly discovered properties
of the "inner core" of our planet.

Hi to all
I need a polarizing microscope. Do you know someone who have it or some
sites where I can buy it? Thanks
P.S. Possibly Zeiss. I'm not interested to the last one producted.

Don Findlay wrote;
"(Mmm Don't know, ...some money would be nice..)  (some research
funds..)   It's a poor do when the finance for global research has to
come out of someone's infant's poor piggy bank, because of someone's

Gery Merman was behearted enough to point out Jonathan alias "Peter J. Ross" .. an awardwinning
kook.
I shall return the favour.
Some month ago Oriel36 appeared in this group, obviously with some profound discrepancy in

  All the diagrams I've seen seem to show a line or pipe coming up to the
surface from miles below the earth, maybe hundreds of miles.
  Are these magma pipelines just a simple way of depicted magna flowing up
through cracks or fissures, or are they really vertical pipes?  If the

Sorry about the title, I didn't want to be ignored as a crackpot
before someone read my post.  Afterwards, you can call me insane! :-)
At any rate, I've been checking the Opportunity site daily looking
at the raws, and something struck me about the "blueberries" in so

Originally the discussions on Meridiani centered
around water or not,  habitable or not.
The safe position to take then was not habitable
due to lack of evidence. The speculative position

Something's locking me out of google's retrieval system for last
couple of days, (Can anyone suggest why?) so various replies posted
here:-
Carsten (beyond words) wrote about growing wiser:-

Or maybe? What's this scuttlebutt about multiple M15+ earthquakes
during the rift that ended up extincting 90% of lifeforms during the
Permian/Triassic divide?
Since retiring from a career in geology, I've grown out of touch.

Over Christmas, assuming we have no major life crises, I'm supposed to
hike the Bright Angel trail to the bottom. This is a 5 day trip. I've
got the book Hiking the Grand Canyon's Geology by Abbott and Cook--(no,
I'm not taking it, just copying the relevant pages).

I want to be able to measure EM fields in rock terrains either from the
air or ground...what inexpensive EM meters can I buy...any
recomendations please...preferably a lightweight with a Log Scale
regards

I am currently a geology student.  As part of the requirements in school, a
geology field camp is required.  I have been interested in the wide range of
geology present in iceland and was wondering if anyone knows of a list of
field camps which may include this region.

Twenty Five dead, 19 missing after large land slide, 500 meters (1,650 feet)
long, 200 meters wide and three meters high, covers village in coal mining
area of China. See:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C41F221F9