Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / January 2006

What do you think about sedimentology???

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060126.html
Any thoughts as to what geologic process(es) could cause this?

Please would welcome any Explanation or Links with regard this topic
'What are Tar Poles' it was raised in my Palaeontology class.
Thanks in advance.

The immense subsee Cassiterite deposits are what made the fortune of Brunei
sultan....but the present Gogology (wrongly called Geology by most) is
completely unable to understand the reasons for such deposits other than
invoking incoherent miracles like process !

One example that always made me doubt evolution was the existence of the
Venus Fly Trap. How did it become a carnivorous plant? Did it have eyes at
one time and say: "Those flies look like a good meal and I am going to
evolve myself so where I can eat them." Common people, how the ...

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7F24F7E3-97DF-4714-B51E-CA1A1708B098.htm
Environmentalists have been caught off guard by South American leaders' plans to
build a massive natural gas pipeline through the Amazon rain forest from
Venezuela to Argentina.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/sludge101403.cfm
Web note: The solution to toxic sewage sludge--already being implemented in
some European countries-- is to strictly separate out residential sewage
from industrial sewage, create a closed loop for industrial wastes, ...

China To Build World's First 'Artificial Sun' Energy Device
Angola Press
1-23-6
HEFEI - A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to

Only 1 survivor in W. Va. coal mine disaster
   John Bennett, whose father Jim Bennett was one of the victims and had been
due to retire in April, complained that his father would “tell me how unsafe the
mine is.”

New study shows methane on Saturn's moon Titan not biological
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
NASA scientists are about to publish conclusive studies showing abundant methane
of a non-biologic nature is found on Saturn's giant moon Titan, a finding that

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1692715,00.html
Owen Bowcott
Monday January 23, 2006
The Guardian

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-01-
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PARIS (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church has restated its support for

I've seen the Grand Canyon "Coconino formation" targeted as evidence for a
biblical flood - in the sense that it is read as marine sand and not
dune-sand (which would somehow invalidate a biblical flood). I've googled
for a geological description of the formation, but not found ...

Happy New Year Everyone
I am Barry and I am a Geologist in business for himself. I proform
environmental site assessments and other subsurface work
http://www.bbgeologist.com will lead you to NZR Geologic, Inc.

I watched a program on PBS about a man in San Francisco that claimed to have
predicted earthquakes by noting strange animal behavior, and formulating
statistical relationship to the occurrence of an actual earthquake event.
The program proclaimed him as a "legitimate" predictor ...