Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / February 2010

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http://www.edconrad.com/pics/HumanBrain.jpg
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OTHER PETRIFIED BONES, TEETH, SOFT ORGANS

Can anyone suggest a good website where I can search for minerals by
the chemical elements contained in them?
Or could someone tell me which mineral or mineral combination would
contain iron (49.06%), oxygen (39.80%), carbon (6.93%), nickel

I go all glassy-eyed with chemistry, but this sounds very interesting
(the Montserrat Volcano Observatory mentioned it in this week's update
at http://preview.tinyurl.com/yat7a6e ). I couldn't even grok the
Wikipedia article on FTIR at http://en.wikipedia ...

Interesting article at the /Volcanism Blog/ at
http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/infrasound-monitoring-for-marianas-vol
canoes/
with link to the InfraVolc site in New Mexico.
Here is a take on this from Hawaii:

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This is what the average evolutionist's scrotum looked like before Ed
Conrad's mind-boggling discoveries of petrified bones, teeth and even
soft organs -- SOME HUMAN -- between coal veins.

Any one to analize those sesimogram-spectrograms? Note the dominant noise
frecuencies below 7 HZ in the Spanish Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN)
web pages:
http://www.ign.es/ign/home/geofisica/volcanologia/senales_dias_anteriores_dia ...

Deny these blood vessel fossils if you can
Someone said Figures 1, 2 below show only rusted dust in cavity,
instead of blood vessel fossils as I claimed. So, I imaged the blood
vessels again (Figures 3,4), this time at 800X. Deny them as

The blogger at Magma Cum Laude said it's essential, not me, but it was
retweeted just now the "Volcanism Blog":
http://magmacumlaude.blogspot.com/2010/02/essential-reading-for-volcanologists.html
Some, probably most, will be way over my head, and I know too well

This, from the "Volcanism Blog" at http://preview.tinyurl.com/yjfa62w:
"The latest issue (vol. 23, no. 1, March 2010) of the official
magazine of The Oceanography Society, /Oceanography,/ is devoted to
the study of undersea mountains or seamounts. This special issue is

I didn't know it had any, but it's not surprising that they exist
there.  This is really an excuse to link to another of those wonderful
The World at Night videos, this one of Mount Damavand:
http://twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3002030&Sort=Gallery

This time-lapse video is from The World at Night site, which is pretty
neat overall**:
http://twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3002276&Sort=Gallery
‘You know Orion always comes up sideways.

Eh?
Well, yes:  http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/volcanoes/cat/index_e.php
Per the home page there, "Canada has examples of almost every type of
volcano. Although none are erupting now, at least 3 did in the last

Climber found dead in Mount St. Helens crater
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
    * Climber's body to be taken to medical examiner's office, official
says

Hat tip to a post in /The Volcanism Blog/ for this:
http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/watching-the-volcanoes-in-congo/
More from John Seach's Web site (with a picture of him and a member of
the GVO at the Nyiragongo link):

The quote is in a "fun" volcano video from 2008 that focuses on the
"lesser" spectacle of Kilauea's summit eruption:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFP6B25aB7k
Pretty good commentary from a layman, this amateur thought, and nice