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  • What Are Copper And Oil Signaling?

    09/24/2011 1:15:44 PM PDT · by blam · 55 replies
    Wall Street Cheat Sheet ^ | 9-24-2011 | Eric McWhinnie
    What Are Copper And Oil Signaling? By Eric McWhinnie September 24 2011 With the markets in turmoil, investors are looking for indicators that will help clean their crystal balls. Two of the more widely used economic indicators are copper and oil. Copper (NYSE:JJC) is often referred to as Dr. Copper, because of its ability to give insight to the future of the global economy. Oil (NYSE:USO) is often seen as the lifeblood of the economy since it is used in everything from plastics to finished motor gasoline. Recently, copper and oil have given investors reason to worry. On Friday, copper...
  • Geology Picture of the Week, May 11-17, 2008: Grab Bag

    05/15/2008 7:12:29 AM PDT · by cogitator · 14 replies · 268+ views
    Various
    Halemaumau emissions plume, half-size (click for full size): Wheeler Geologic Area, Colorado -- love the hoodoos. Apparently this place is so hard to reach that there was an attempt to make it a national monument, but that attempt collapsed because of lack of interest and potential visitorship, so it's a geological area in a national forest. Wheeler Geologic Area Crystal Cave of Giants, Mexico: Giant Crystal Cave's Mystery Solved (this article has a link to a different cave discovery, a very nice limestone cave in Sequoia National Park). It's pretty amazing that places like these are still being discovered in...
  • Geology Picture of the Week, Feb. 3-9, 2008: On the Set of GalaxyQuest

    02/07/2008 12:12:55 PM PST · by cogitator · 16 replies · 168+ views
    Various sources
    OK, to explain the title, I discovered that Goblin Valley State Park -- now another site on my list of "places I just found about and now I've got to visit" -- was a site for filming in GalaxyQuest, starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub, etc. Amazing desert scenery. Here's a couple. From www.hickerphoto.com: From photoseek.com: and from www.lookoutnow.com, below. This formation must be one of the most photographed in the park; there are a lot of images of it.
  • Geology Picture of the Week, June 12-18, 2005: Finger Klippe

    06/13/2005 1:33:45 PM PDT · by cogitator · 2 replies · 1,261+ views
    Link post, for the purpose of alerting interested FR denizens to the post in the General/Chat section, where discussion and comments should be posted: Geology Picture of the Week, June 12-18, 2005: Finger Klippe
  • Geology Picture of the Week, June 12-18, 2005: Finger Klippe

    06/13/2005 1:26:56 PM PDT · by cogitator · 6 replies · 1,193+ views