Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / July 2005

Ever since I moved to the upper Mohawk Valley I've been curious about the
set of drumlin-shaped hills near Richfield Springs, on top of the
escarpment just south of the glacial lake outlet at Little Falls.  These
drumlins are oriented pretty much east-west, indicating westerly ...

I'm interested in geology, but would really like to skip all the drivel
about 'ancients'. 'ET', 'true geology' and other hogwash uttered by the
tin-foil hat brigade.
Is there a list-of-loonies which I can add directly to a killfile so that I

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4727847.stm
A giant patch of frozen water has been pictured nestled within an unnamed impact
crater on Mars.

Another thread discussed a "hot Spot" near Santa Barbara, CA where the
ground was hot and smoking.  I compared it to the legend of the Wakulla
Volcano in Florida but I misremembered the chronology.  It happened in
the late 1800s.  A search on "Wakulla Volcano" will find some hits ...

I have staked a copper porphyry play in SW New Mexico. It has 2 drill holes
with sulfide alteration  for 400' 360' respectively with anomolous base
metal and silver over the same range.
If interested call Harald Hoegberg at 303-766-2882, or send e-mail (put

This is actual  time lapse footage of the motions of Jupiter and Saturn
http://www.opencourse.info/astronomy/introduction/05.motion_planets/jupiter_satu
rn_retro.gif
The early heliocentrists isolated the orbital motion of the faster
Earth taking an inner orbital circuit against the ...

The antecedent of quasicrystals,which display icosahedral symmetry,
were developed by Roger Penrose and given the name of Penrose tiling -
http://www.scienceu.com/geometry/articles/tiling/penrose.html
This tiling is a safe basis to approach crystal growth insofar as the

Yesterday CNN ran a story about an underwater recording of
last December's quake off the coast of Sumatra:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/07/20/quakesounds/index.html
The quake was picked up by the network of underwater audio

Technology to Detect Anomalies in the Frequency Spectrum of Seismic Record
(RAFE)
(Oil & Gas research)
Test line are free charge. Try it now.

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Deck those Halls with boughs of folly
It's Pseudos' Christmas, Oh by golly!

What is a Missoula flood like?
They last a few days. But how do they begin? For example, if you stood
at the brink of the Columbia gorge above Crown Point, how long does it
take from apparently undisturbed Columbia River baseflow until the

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THIS IS AN E-MAIL I RECEIVED JUST MINUTES AGO FROM
DAVID IAIN GREIG, OMNIPOTENT  MODERATOR OF TALK.ORIGINS.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Stalagmite fuels climate debate
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4636115.stm
This is an interesting story by the BBC.  Take it for what it is worth.
Better to go to the original sources for more details.

Our geology department recently received a MicroTec automatic thin section
machine, model 1103-D-DM. However no documentation could be found for
them, and I am having trouble finding any on the web.
Any help would be appreciated.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/07/15/safrica.crater.reut/index.html
Friday, July 15, 2005; Posted: 9:54 a.m. EDT (13:54 GMT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) -- A giant crater formed 2 billion
years ago when a meteorite smashed into what is now South Africa has been