Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / December 2006

what is the relation between viscoelasticity & anelasticity?

& a happy NewYear to all of you.
Carsten

when you view a map of the planet - with the oceans removed, or even as
seen in Google Earth.. you get a clear view of the ocean floor, and
almost what I see surrounding most all land masses are what appears to
be the shoreline as it might have been many millions of years back -

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I saw Stuart on Nova tonight.  It was a show about the Tsunami.  It was a
good one.  Don't know if it will repeat, but it may.
George

I was just looking up Dead Sea in Wikipedia (I forget why), when I came
across this line under Halite:
"Halite occurs in vast beds of sedimentary evaporite minerals that result
from the drying up of enclosed lakes, playas, and seas. Salt beds may be up

Today alt.fan.pratchett was amused by a Troll love song, which might
amuse a few people here.

Modern technology is so much fun. Drifting through the world with
satellite images, I came across this:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=18&ll=19.918187,93.629635&spn=0.002971,0.
004034&t=h
If you zoom out and wander about that region, there are lots of similar

I got this from a business list I read, please don't reply to me:
A partner who is recruiting engineers for Oil & Gas and Construction
industries in Middle East countries now requires:
Geoscientists/Geophysicysts, with experience in Exploration in Oil &

A new "Article" (CG2006 A05) was posted on 14/12/2006
Article 5 [2006]: New micropalaeontological studies on the stratotype
of the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary at Tercis (SW France): the
gilianelles (microproblematica) extracted through acetolysis, by

Hello I´m chemical engineer and natural gas industry managment
student. In my class notesi have a description for Reservoir Static
Model:
"A reservoir static model is a 3D model, This includes structure,

I'm interested in petroleum sub-surface analysis, but my university doesn't
offer much on that topic. Can you recommend some good books for self study?
thanks,

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16193443/
By John Heilprin
Updated: 6:02 p.m. ET Dec 13, 2006
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is clamping down on scientists at the

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As you must've heard, Ed Conrad has died -- Thank
Heaven! -- and, rather amazingly, has gone to heaven.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6178213.stm
By Jonathan Amos
Science reporter, BBC News, San Francisco
Some 10,000 US researchers have signed a statement protesting about