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WHOI scientists find ancient asphalt domes off California coast (Maltenes?)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ^
| Apr 25, 2010
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Posted on 04/25/2010 3:07:30 PM PDT by decimon
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From Wikipedia: Asphalt (en-us-asphalt.ogg ˈæs.fɒlt (help·info)) is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits sometimes termed asphaltum.[1] It is most commonly modelled as a colloid, with asphaltenes as the dispersed phase and maltenes...
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posted on
04/25/2010 3:07:30 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
Well, it is history ping.
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posted on
04/25/2010 3:08:56 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Like La Brea Tar Pits? Wonder if they’ll find any pleisaur skeletons, or unknown dino’s...
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posted on
04/25/2010 3:12:25 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: decimon
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posted on
04/25/2010 3:14:30 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
To: decimon
Send Grant money please....right away...this could save the world....
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posted on
04/25/2010 3:15:05 PM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(What)
To: decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
04/25/2010 3:15:27 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
That place would produce lunatics, no corner to pee in!
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posted on
04/25/2010 3:23:15 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: decimon
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posted on
04/25/2010 3:24:10 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(GWB wasn't around 30K years ago)
To: decimon
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posted on
04/25/2010 3:27:14 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Thanks. I wonder how much oil is down there?
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posted on
04/25/2010 3:37:57 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: blam
To: decimon
Fascinating story.
But this passage is a bit much:
Without access to the sophisticated equipment in his Woods Hole lab, Reddy employed a “25-cent glass tube, the back of a Bic pen and a little nail polish remover” to analyze the crusty substance.
&&&
On a WHOI research vessel there is much sophisticated equipment. Someone likes to exaggerate.
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posted on
04/25/2010 3:55:08 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
To: JoeProBono
To: Dem Guard
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posted on
04/25/2010 4:11:05 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
The Obama Presidential Library? lol
To: decimon
“They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.”
And it was God who did it yet.
To: decimon
So many things support Sir Thomas Gold’s abiogenic origin of hydrocarbons.
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posted on
04/25/2010 5:39:42 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Half of the population is below average)
To: decimon
How do they explain the yellow lines on the asphalt?
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posted on
04/25/2010 7:44:22 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: count-your-change
How do they explain the yellow lines on the asphalt?Whale wipe.
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04/26/2010 3:45:07 AM PDT
by
decimon
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