Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / June 2006

TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as YOU Know It)
An oil and gas expert, John Kilduff, was interviewed on CBS...
He said the US has TWO major oil and gas production areas...
the Louisiana and Texas Gulf coasts... he said Katrina devastated

Can anyone explain the weathering process that results in the creation
of "solution cups", which tend to be small (10cm - 40cm) depressions,
which look very much like mortar cups.  Here in the Sierra Nevada such
weathering features frequently occur on granite boulders and outcrops

I am in a discussion about the Grand Canyon.  The other person is
stating that the Grand canyonw as formed by a glacier and not by
erosion.  I know it was caused by erosion, but the point was brought up
if it was caused by erosion, then why has the other rivers mentioned in

I want to know the geology of the valley of Loire. Please tell me how
to get some information about this subject.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/06/22/national
/a114733D86.DTL
By JOHN KEKIS, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Forty-one years ago, rescuers couldn't get the body of James Mitchell out

I plan to teach a short course in Geostatistics to the novice (among
ecologists and environmental scientists).  Do you have
any suggested syllabus for this course, class plan, materials, software,
...etc..  An introduction to Geostat + an ARC-GIS applications shall be the

HIMALAYA (Geological Aspects) Volume-4
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Jean-Paul is just taking a break but is still very annoyed, and has sent the
following scathing letter to various government sources. Says he will be
back in the fall ( spring in Australia ).
Also about Wally Anglesea, about getting JP off ng's -

Both of these craters are about the same age, and both are suspects
in the Permian-Triassic extinction.  Could a single body have
split to create two large simultaneous impacts?  (That is what
happened to Jupiter in the mid-90's, except for the craters.)

Here's a bit of earth shaking news (geology?) concerning ACME Bank.
Link to it here http://www.banffspace3.blogspot.com  ACME - The Worlds
1st Mega-glomerate!
(please place tongue in cheek prior to linking)

I know you guys have probably answered this question a zillion times.
Water -  where in gods name did it all come from?
I read on the net somewhere that it all came from comets, etc originally but
I can't see how that many comets could hit the Earth and apparently miss all

http://www.playfuls.com/news_001231_Large_Meteorite_Hits_Northern_Norway.html
Large Meteorite Hits Northern Norway
A large meteorite struck in northern Norway this week, landing with an
impact an astronomer compared to the atomic bomb used at Hiroshima.

       It must be hell being a creationist - spending years trumpeting on the alleged absence of "intermediate forms" in the fossil record only to find that those accursed scientists go out and *find* fossils of the "intermediate forms". I suppose the next thing to do would be ...

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