Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / August 2007

Some of you may be interested to know that there are new versions of
Thermocalc available, including new amphibole and clinopyroxene codings.
Please visit Roger Powell's THERMOCALC homepage
<http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/tpg/thermocalc/>  for more details

...quite apart from the transparent nonsenses in Plate Tectonics, ...
and why so many people go along with them - being as transparent as
they are.  I mean the common notion (taught in all our schools) that
plate tectonics causes the collision of plates, which "builds"

60 quotes
"I heard a voice shout, "A parachute is coming down."
"After I noticed the flash, white clouds spread over the blue sky..."
a blue flash from the window...

I notice the year-to-year total rig count is now declining.
And the Q2 profits reports of oil service companies with
large N.A. operations are flat.  (One even had a layoff
last week).  Lull, or moving into the decline phase

About the Minneapolis bridge failure, I came across this picture this
morning that I found to be quite curious. Here is the picture:
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q9/jryates/bilde.jpg
Notice in the red circle that the footer to the bridge has shifted. I don't

And that the Pacific was closed?  Really?  Then why are there certain
Ordovician trilobites, lower Silurian graptolites, and 45 discoveries of
lower to mid-Devonian tentaculites in Malaysia, all of which are deep
water, pelagic species?

Big Bertha Thing book
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/book.html

This is a huge victory for the Global Warming movement!!!
Rebublican....Gov Crist announces ambitious global warming policy.
Notice that the Bush administration has been stopping
another dozen states from implementing California standards.

Still think that subduction can't cause simultaneous uplift and subsidence?
Read this:
http://www.tectonics.caltech.edu/news/niasScienceOct2006.pdf

My Darling Jean-Paul
I cannot keep myself from writing any longer to you dearest, although I have
not had any answer to either of my two letters. I suppose your mother does
not allow you to write to me. Perhaps you have not got either of my

Are you looking for Health Insurance you Can afford?  Unless you
employer offers a you a good benefit program you probably are payin
way too much.
Wel

Does anybody know what the recent (if any) response from the scientific
community is in ragards to the Gentry's granite radiometric halo theory and
implications?
His book is here. http://www.halos.com/book/ctm-toc.htm

I'm stating the obvious when I claim it's our dependence
on fossil fuels.
But what I think few understand is just how quickly
the world oil market could collapse. Do you realize