Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / April 2008

These read like epitaphs....
Tibet in Turmoil...CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/14/tibet.unrest/index.html?iref=24hours
"The protesters planned to reach the border for a confrontation with Chinese

Hello to everybody,
I am trying to assess the vulnerability of any water body to be
polluted through surface runoffs passing agriculture areas. I am
trying to consider the effect of the soil permeability to do this. I

According to my current knowledge, the earth's magnetic field formed
due to the molten iron core that is spinning to create a magnetic
field. This magnetic field is also what is protecting us from harmful
bursts (solar plasma?) from the sun.

For convenience in case it gets lost amongst all the other smelly red
herrings Stuart keeps strewing about the place, Stuart's predicament
is re-posted here :-
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Philosophers, scientists and other intellectuals close to Pope Benedict will
gather at his summer palace outside Rome this week for intensive discussions
that could herald a fundamental shift in the Vatican's view of evolution.
There have been growing signs the Pope is considering ...

Dear Sir /
Madam
                    If it would be interesting for you to learn,
   1) why the signals of Extraterrestrial Civilizations have not been

Searching the web i found actually 5216 job openings for environmental
consultants and 226 brand new job job vacancies. Have a look at
http://2ajobguide.com/jobs_USA.aspx  and just type in the search field
"environmental consultant". If you want to refine your search you also

Hey everyone! I'm glad to join this group. Hope to learn a lot from
you guys.

I am asking because I felt a scary rumble at 6:05 AM EDT this morning
near Atlanta GA, and I am wondering if I felt the earthquake that hit
southern Illinois 28 minutes earler at 4:37 AM CDT.

Plate tectonics was created to answer the data of seafloor spreading.
And as usual in science
the older theories that still pertain are installed as the new theory.
The old theory I speak of

One of the papers I write for sent me to the International Mining
Competition Championships last Friday.
College students and some older "alumni" of mining engineering programs
competed in 7 old-time events: gold-panning, track-standing, Swede

Olympic Motto:  One-World One-Dream!
                                                   or
                                   The Deal of the Century
To whit:  The Western World will 'Deed' ..legitimacy.. to Dictatorships

Perhaps Earth's complex atmosphere is no accident, especially of the
most recent AGW contributing factors (the greatest of which being good
old water), whereas a given bucket of water will last for weeks on
end, as opposed to tossing that same bucket of water onto a concrete

[copied from another post.  Any comments or links would be appreciated!]
Here's one book on the Permian extinction itself:
_Extinction:  How Life on Earth nearly ended 250 million years ago_, Douglas
H. Erwin

in reply to some Antipodean coward toad
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Telfer was the name of that little shrimp & former Secretary of MInes
I met on the hills once ...