Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / June 2005

mid-atlantic was a 5.2
LA was 4.0
Pacific ocean of of mexico was 6.3

According to the June 2005 Journal of Atomic Scientists, Exxon
predicts that non-OPEC fossil oil will peak within five years. To my
knowledge, this is the first time that a major oil company has made a
public statement about global oil peaking.

A must see.  This was produced by a Canadian group called Friends of
Science.  
http://friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=3

A mining company is reopening the Bates-Hunter gold mine
of Central City after production stopped 70 years ago.
New technology and $500 / ounce gold are incentives.
Central City has held on in the meantime as a casino

I'm grappling with the origin of a peculiar "sandstone". Here are some
photos and a macroscopic description:
http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~peba/sst1.jpg
http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~peba/sst2.jpg

The pseudos just can't stand Intelligent Design
They keep insisting that evolution's perfectly fine
Except it's all crap

But, does anybody want to discuss the 7.0 earthquake
off the Northwest coast of California - a mere 130
miles from my front door.

Spectacular night photgrpah at the link below:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=830961
By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press Writer
SAN MARCOS, Mexico Jun 8, 2005 - The Volcano of Fire has rumbled back to

Beieve it or not, Pope Benedict XVI just emailed and insisted
I apologize to him and the Cardinals after posting that

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/farout/story/0,,1506985,00.html
--> Next summer sees the launch of a remarkable expedition led
--> by Steve Currey of Povo, Utah. The 24-day trip begins on
--> June 26, at Murmansk. Participants will board a Russian

"I can point to many anatomical
features of man in which the courses
of evolution can be explained plausibly

<a
href="http://alaskasking.blogspot.com/2005/06/research-on-fossils-may-offer-clues-on.h
tml">Geologists
studying fossils in Alaska and Oregon have discovered what they believe is
a signal that occurred a few years before major coastal earthquakes in the

(Oops! I forgot to mention a few apologies. I have done so now
and hope this is the end of the story because, quite frankly,
I am running out of Bandwidth.)

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/melted_asteroids.html?1562005
Summary - (Jun 15, 2005) Many of the Earth's volcanic rocks might have come
from melted asteroids, according to researchers from the UK's Open
University. The scientists have discovered that many early asteroids ...

Evidently global warming started about 8,000 years ago, long before the
Industrial Revolution. An article explaining this is on page 46 of the
Scientific American magazine, March 2005, by William F. Ruddiman. It
turns out that human agriculture (planting seeds, domesticating