Posted on 06/10/2004 9:00:21 AM PDT by cogitator
Being lazy and pressed for time today, click the linked article for links to the larger versions of the images. Also check my "Honorable Mention" below.
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From the satellite photo, it doesn't appear that there's a whole lot of "bio" going on there...
There isn't. Lizards, sidewinders, and Cholla cactus (and old lava flows) are what the Pinacate are all about.
Louis L'Amour set one of his books along El Camino del Diablo and the Pinacate region - from the Territorial Prison in Yuma south to the Gulf.
His descriptions of the area should be enough to keep all but the most foolhardy from venturing there.
"Last Stand at Papago Wells" was set in that area, too.
And "High Lonesome", or maybe a bit further east towards Tucson...
I've read everything he's had published including his autobiography and his book of poetry. Sometimes the titles get lost, though, in this muddled middle-aged brain of mine!!
I always enjoyed reading his books with a big road atlas at hand ... it was fun to find the locations right on the map! I've been meaning to request "The Empty Land" from the library for my daughter ... it was the first LL I read!
Ah, yes...a good bit of history, morality, and love story all rolled up together.
Of course, that describes most of his stories, doesn't it?
Don't forget geography! I wish Sam Elliot or Tom Selleck would do some more movies!
Fair enough, as long as Katherine Ross or Linda Cristal are co-stars...!!
That would be fine with me! I didn't really care much for Orrin Sackett until Tom Selleck played him - after seeing the movies, I liked him better :-).
Cool! Maybe I'll order that for my father; he's just had surgery, and won't be able to golf for several weeks!
Hehehe!!!
That's one of the 125 volumes of Louis L'Amour I have on the bookshelves behind me...
A great addition and well worth the price!
This would seem to be a question ripe for an answer--good for innumerable PhD theses, papers, reports...except for some reason the data is not available. I wonder why.
--Boris
On this particular question, I've been quoting the same Web site/page for several years. It has a few references.
Gases: Man versus the Volcanoes
It covers CO2, SO2, HCl, HF, and HBr. About the only other one of possible significance might be H2S (and that from steam vents around volcanoes, not an "actual" magmatic gas).
As you say, this is a research topic that generates quite a bit of data; but most researchers focus on one or a few volcanoes rather than compiling global inventories. Part of the problem is that volcanic emissions are highly variable -- you would have to do a lot of adding over a lot of years to get improved estimates.
I've noted previously that the author of some of these papers -- Gerlach -- seems to be one of the few that does "global" work regularly. According to what I kind find about him on the Web (not much) he probably is still working at the Cascades Volcano Observatory (USGS).
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