Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / December 2008

At the link below you will find a "real time" seismogram.  Click on EN at
the top right of the page for english then on "seismograms in real time "
from the menu to the left.  Note the event at about 08:45
http://seismologie.oma.be

MULTICONF-09 call for papers
The 2009 Multi Conference in Computer Science, Information Technology
and Control systems and Computational Science and Computer Engineering
(MULTICONF-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) will be held

I was looking at the following series of "Paleomaps" showing a
reconstruction of what the Earth might have looked like hundreds of
millions of years ago:
http://www.scotese.com/newpage5.htm (Permian era)

If the earth has formed from a nebulosa
of gas and dust, shouldn't all the heavy elements like gold, uranium,
mercury, etc.
all be deep down in the earth.

(European Organization for Nuclear Research) Build Worlds
Largest 17 Mile Round Particle Accelerator
Planetary Risk To Create Artificial BIG BANG Conditions In Lab
Many more helpful links, videos, interviews from all sides of the

Undeniable osteons in a Mars fossil bone; That’s why NASA never
publish any anatomist’s comments
Fig. 1 shows remains of four osteons, two of which contain clear
Haversian canals. The figure was originally downloaded from Mars

Did I ever ask...
Where did all the extra mass come from?

<
Representative Trantis (a...@a.com) wrote to talk.origins
on Oct. 30, 2003...
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Mars rover found new Haversian canals
Fig. 1 is a new microscopic image sent back by Mars Rover Opportunity
around Dec.23, 2008. The expanded image shows three Haversian canals,
each containing a vertical capillary.

How is Santa Claus doing these days?
There is now a movie sequence of the North Pole Sea Ice, which makes it
possible to keep an eye on his home:
http://satellite.ehabich.info/arctic_movie.htm.

Millions of scarlet red blood cells were squeezed out of a
Carboniferous human femur fossil.
The following two photos show countless scarlet remains of red blood
cells. They were recently squeezed out of capillaries as a

Red blood cell remains streamed out of a Carboniferous human femur
fossil
Here is the labelled photo:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=21&f=1834688088&p=72

GO GORE !
For once, Gore might have the science right.
No known genuine geologist or petroleum engineer has publicly stated
that there is such a thing as "clean coal."  If it's clean, it ain't

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakken_Formation
A research paper by USGS geochemist Leigh Price in 1999 estimated the
total amount of oil contained in the Bakken shale ranged from 271
billion to 503 billion barrels (8.00×1010 m3), with a mean of 413

CALL FOR CHAPTERS:
TITLE: “E-RESEARCH COLLABORATION: FRAMEWORKS, TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES”
Co-Editors:
Murugan Anandarajan, Ph.D., Drexel University, ma33@drexel.edu