Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / January 2006

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8550
11:58 09 January 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Maggie McKee

I am not a geologist or geographer, and this is my first post to this
group.
I would like to know how to correctly desrcibe a certain landform in
south-east France which is indicated on a map as the 'Serre de Lauzet'.

A week ago, I read these two headline news:
the first "An avalanche in northwestern Pakistan killed 24 people"
the second "The death toll from a landslide that devastated a Yemeni
village has risen to 63"

Christopher A. Lee wrote:

My maps of the Appalachians seem to show every geologic feature from
Alabama to Newfoundland.  They don't, however, show where the various
culturally-named ranges start and end, e.g., the Poconos, the
Catskills, the Blue Ridge, the Black Mountains, the Alleghenies, etc.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html
SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit Meets 'Gallant Knight' - sol 701-707, Jan 05,
2006:
Spirit is in excellent health after a busy holiday weekend. The rover

2004 June 13
I find this funny.   At the moment Stuart is rushing about waving a
flaming cross in the face of creationists whilst Rome is burning,
...the Rome of plate tectonics that is.  Pteros take the view that

It's been so quiet in this group lately....
Just five names was all it took.
Brian

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8534
 a.. 11:11 05 January 2006
 b.. NewScientist.com news service
 c.. Maggie McKee

The astoundingly good Carnets de Géologie
<http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/uk-index.html> ushers in the new year
by announcing the publication of a new "memoir":
Steemans P., Javaux E. (Editors, 2005).- Pre-Cambrian to Palaeozoic

I had a look at the Russian experiments, and they seem to be able to produce
hydrocarbons from marble, FeO and water in good agreement with thermodynamic
considerations. For short C will be hydrogenated and FeO oxidated - that's
how I read

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/F0A911
78EC79FBC2862570D8001BAEA3?OpenDocument
By Eric Hand
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Here are a bunch of photos taken in initial site assessements last week.
http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/mcgsc/taum_sauk_reservoir_photos122005.html
Also, one can go to www.mostateparks.com, select Johnson Shut-Ins as the
park, and get a link to pages of before and after shots in the ...

I see Ed Conrad is rambling on again. The man is like a tidal
fluctuation. Goes away and then comes back again with disgusting
regularity.
What ever happened with The Turcaud Earthquake? Postponed?

IS IT what you really want to read in "THE AUSTRALIAN", "THE AGE", "THE WEST
AUSTRALIAN"   soon ?
Who in the whole of Australia has demonstrated up to now an uncanny ability,
not only at discovering Mines but as well at understanding the True Geology