Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / October 2005

Misleading information put out on nuclear waste disposal and decay
The Nation - official newspaper of One Nation
Volume 5, edition 9
   "There has been many lies circulated about decay

While reading about the farallon plate, I keep bumping into the
supercontinent Pangaea.  While I've heard of this before, in various places,
I never really thought about it.
Something bothers me about this concept, and perhaps its my own

Does anyone know of any open source systems to do best guess minerals
from list of elements in a sample.  I have a bunch of EDX samples from
some SEM work and would love to know what are the mostly likely clay
minerals involved.  My school didn't by the identify feature for the

please help me web about soil solution.
thanks

After returning home to Denmark Jesper Kenn Olsen states, that Siberia is
the  prettiest country. Through a two year periode Jesper Kenn Olsen has
circumnavigated some 62000 km of the globe using 29 pairs of shoes in the
effort.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16988506-29277,00.html
By Darrin Barnett
October 21, 2005
AUSTRALIA'S scientific community has fired its first broadside in a looming

A judge has ordered the Department of the Interior
to take computers off the InterNet again of leaking information
about Indian bank accounts.  The last time they did this
a couple years again, the DOI took off ALL computers

I have a digital scan of a geological map in black and white. I wish to
color in the different geologic units using photoshop. Does anyone
know, in detail, how to accomplish this efficiently with Photoshop CS2?
Some combination of select and replace color??

Scientific American.com
September 26, 2005
A Cool Early Earth?
FULL ARTICLE:

First pic  http://photobucket.com/albums/a253/Bagpip/

"Orogeny (Gilbert, 1890) is the process of forming mountain belts by
folding and thrust faulting."
The term 'orogeny/ orogenesis', coined way back then, and still in use
should be abandoned.   Mountains are not 'built'.  They are the

What is the Geology community's opinion of the ongoing St. Helen's eruption?
As a total lay person when it comes to geology I visit sites like this
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Images/MSH04/framework.html
and look at the FLIR images, time-lapse movies of the lava dome ...

The tracks of a previously unknown, two-legged swimming dinosaur have been
identified along the shoreline of an ancient inland sea that covered Wyoming 165
million years ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder graduate
student.

In article <nuh5f.30452$UV2.776178@wagner.videotron.net>, Leto2 wrote:

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