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169 pages of results. 691. Anhydride Theory: A New Theory of How Petroleum and Coal are Generated [Journals] [Aeon]
... methane are "anhydrides." The "terminal anhydride," pure carbon, may be deposited as the added carbon that changes peat to coal in the coalification process, or it may be deposited in the absence of peat as veins of asphaltite in non-sedimentary terranes. Methane effusion from Earth's interior is a worldwide phenomenon of which hardrock miners and geologists are fully aware. Nevertheless, finding it in previously unsuspected places still evokes expressions that verge on wonder. For example, in a recent article on the drilling of Indian Ocean crust, William C. Evans of the USGS [1 ] describes "a 0.5 km core of oceanic crustal layer 3, consisting of gabbroic rocks ...
692. Punctuated Darwinism? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... population levels, which is what we see today (or, at least, did until mankind started to degrade most habitats at the present suicidal rate), then species must be eventually heading for natural extinction. The tree of evolution is actually standing upside down! Significantly, this is precisely the picture presented by the fossil record. Each geological period is characterised by an initial explosion of its characteristic life forms, of which many become extinct by the end of the epoch. Catastrophe, the creator of new types There has been much discussion in recent years about the possibility of massive extraterrestrial catastrophes to explain the extinctions at major geological boundaries, and even those of a more conventional ...
693. Catastrophism 2000 [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... possible mechanism for creating the lunar features described. However, due to alternative suggestions made by other catastrophist writers and in particular a short paper in the Appendix by Roger Wescott, the reader may feel advised to suspend judgement concerning planetary encounters as a means of such discharges as described by Juergens. Next comes Hypervelocity Impact Cratering: A Catastrophic Terrestrial Geologic Process' by Richard Grieve. This paper veers towards what might today be described as a more conventional kind of catastrophism. It is rich in evidence and geological explanation and serves to remind us that periodic cometary showers are now recognised as part of the geological process. Sediment' by Milton Zysman appears next; Milton develops a theme already ...
694. Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Comets. Ch.9 Axis Shifted (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... of those volcanoes, however, are already extinct. Central America abounds in volcanoes, most of them extinct or dormant; the highest, Orizaba in Mexico, over 18 000 feet high, was active for the last time three centuries ago. In the United States few volcanoes are active, though many became extinct very recently, in the geological sense. Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Kurile Islands encircle the northern Pacific with a volcanic arc. The Japanese islands contain volcanoes by the score; most of them are extinct, some only recently so. Formosa, the Philippines, the so called Volcano Islands -one of which is Iwo Jima, the ...
695. A New Introduction to Earth in Upheaval [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of a single volcano, Thera, in the Aegean Sea. Yet, in some instances, like the discovery of a great submarine ridge encompassing the globe almost twice, the discoverer (B . Heezen) felt compelled to exclaim in print: The discovery at this late date of the midocean ridge and rift has raised fundamental questions about basic geological processes and the history of the earth and has even had reverberations in cosmology. (2 ) At his discovery of the whitish ash underlying the beds of all oceans and seas, the so-called Worzel Ash, J. L. Worzel was, too, led to exclaim in print: It may be necessary to attribute the layer to ...
696. The Burning of Troy by Alfred De Grazia [Books] [de Grazia books]
... 1984 Metron Publications Princeton, N.J ., U.S .A . TABLE OF CONTENTS The Quantavolutionary Scan Part One: Historical Disturbances The Burning of Troy The Founding of Rome Micah's Ark The Catastrophic Finale of the Middle Bronze Age Updating Schaeffer's Destruction Inventory Nine Spheres of Venusian Effects The Obliteration of Human Signs Ancient Astronauts Part Two: Geological Issues Indians of Illinois Ice Cores of Greenland A Failed Excursion to the Caves of Aquitaine The Latecoming Olduvai Gorg e Athens Quakes Part Three: Working of the Mind Comptinology and Tohu-bohu Sandal-straps and Semiology Making Moonshine with Hard Science Holy Dreamtime in Wonguri Land The Unconscious' as a Literary Revolt Against Scienc e O.K . Origins Jupiter's Bands ...
697. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... life on the Savannah are not mutually exclusive but can all add something to a comprehensive, if revolutionary, story of the evolution of man. There is a crucial gap in the fossil history of man between the ape-like possible ancestor Ramapithecus at 9 Myrs ago and the earliest upright Australopithecus at 3.7 Myrs ago. The time available is geologically so short and the changes so radical that mechanisms and environmental pressures far greater than slow adaptation from trees to Savannah are called for. Neoteny would explain features such as our flat faces, small jaws, relatively large brain and one important adaptation for upright locomotion - the set of the skull on the spinal column. It does not, ...
698. Second SIS Cambridge Conference Report [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... from 11-13 July 1997 for the second international conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies. The purpose - to discuss the near-simultaneous ending of Bronze Age civilizations world-wide, in particular whether the "giant comet" hypothesis, associated principally with the names of Clube & Napier and Hoyle & Wickramasinghe, could be substantiated by ground truth in the archaeological, geological, climatological and historical records. Depending on one's chronology and the geographic region under discussion, the Bronze Age started c.3500 BC and continued for two or three thousand years until approximately 1500-500 BC, encompassing not only the main construction phases of Stonehenge and its megalithic counterparts elsewhere, but also the genesis of kingship, priesthood, human ...
699. When Was the Lunar Surface Last Molten? [Journals] [Pensee]
... all crystalline rocks, in spite of their microfractures and high potassium-argon age." As to the exterior of the lunar material, T. Gold, writing in Science, discussed "Apollo 11 Observations of a Remarkable Glazing Phenomenon on the Lunar Surface." Gold, looking for a cause of the glazing assumed "a giant solar outburst in geologically recent times" that sprayed the surface of all lunar rocks with metallic glaze. How recent? "The glazing occurred less than 30,000 years ago: otherwise the glaze would have been eroded and dusted over by slow bombardment of the moon by cosmic dust. On the other hand, the event must have taken place some thousands ...
700. Recent Geology of the Planet Venus [Articles]
... Recent Geology of the Planet Venus Wallace Thornhill Velikovsky made 3 "advance claims" concerning Venus which he considered crucial to his theory of the recent history of Venus: 1. Venus would be hot after its recent birth and encounters with Earth and Mars; 2. Venus should have a massive atmosphere as a result of absorbing gases from its extensive cometary tail; 3. Hydrocarbons would be present in that atmosphere. Both of the first 2 claims were met dramatically when the first planetary probes survived to the surface of Venus. The third claim was partially met when hydrocarbons of many sorts showed up in the initial evaluation of the mass spectrometer on board the Pioneer atmospheric probes. ...
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