[decimon]

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...

[decimon]

Well, it is history ping.

[Beowulf9]

Like La Brea Tar Pits? Wonder if they’ll find any pleisaur skeletons, or unknown dino’s...

[Sacajaweau]

Send Grant money please....right away...this could save the world....

[Larry Lucido]

Bush’s phalt.

[JoeProBono]

[mikrofon]

[blam]

I located this article, it has pictures:

Undersea Asphalt Volcanoes Discovered

[Bigg Red]

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.

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On a WHOI research vessel there is much sophisticated equipment. Someone likes to exaggerate.

[Brilliant]

“They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.”

And it was God who did it yet.

[Sequoyah101]

So many things support Sir Thomas Gold’s abiogenic origin of hydrocarbons.

[count-your-change]

How do they explain the yellow lines on the asphalt?

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks decimon. A two-list ping topic. :') Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized asphalt domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist. About 35,000 years ago, a series of apparent undersea volcanoes deposited massive flows of petroleum 10 miles offshore. The deposits hardened into domes that were discovered recently... Thanks . Blast from the Past. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[colorado tanker]

Oil rigs off the Santa Barbara coast. One of the areas where Obama is stopping a Bush plan for expanded drilling.