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Yes and the water in lava ends up being bonded into crystals. How exactly then would one go about liberating the water from the crystal lattice (with the technology they had available)?
There are several problems here, frankly. I'm just going to address this: it is difficult enough to try and distill several years of education into a simplified answer. When you are asking questions that you could reasonably have found the answers yourself, it makes things frustrating and more...
So, you don't see the religious as being damaging to society? I would have to disagree with that. If the religious could prevent their beliefs from affecting the rest of us, I wouldn't have a problem with them. But they do a great amount of harm to society in general. One only needs to look...
Wait, wasn't The Core a comedy?
Womble, you must admit that geology majors spend an unfortunate amount of time coloring between the lines. :D
First off, the easiest way to visualize the mantle is to think of it like a sponge. Soft, malleable, but solid material that has pockets of liquid...
Agreed. When I searched for similar articles everything came back from the 50's. I think it was a short lived idea.
As I stated before, I haven't read it all yet, but they were discussing the usefulness of certain K bearing minerals. There was also some discussion on weathering into...
Actually, some of those who disbelieve the single bullet theory do so on the basis of the lack of apparent damage to the bullet. I had trouble with that part myself, until the same type of bullet was fired through some ballistic dummies under similar circumstances and ended up with...
I have a pdf file of it. If you'd like it, p.m. me.
As to the article itself, it is from 1958. I haven't had time to finish reading it yet, but I have started. To my knowledge, K-Argon has never been extensively used in dating sed rocks. Presumably, it is too expensive when biostratigraphy...
Though I thought about voting for the creation myth, the flood just has too many inconsistencies or improbabilities for me to vote against it. Of all the bible stories it was the one that bothered me the most, from a logical stand point, when I was a child.
I'm not a petrologist or geochemist and therefore am a poor person to get an explanation from. However, here is an article that does address some of the what you're asking:
http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/45/9/1747
As an addendum to this: I was raised around firearms. I was taught how to handle the rifles and shotgun when I was seven. The first firearm I ever used was an old bolt action 30.06. When I was 13 I was shown were the the shells/bullets were kept (I already knew where the firearms were) and...
From Wiki:
8:37:52: Boston Center control notifies NEADS (Northeast Air Defense Sector), the northeast sector of NORAD, of the hijacking of Flight 11, the first notification received by the military at any level that American 11 had been hijacked. The controller requests military help to...
Consent can be subjective as well. Parents have the right to consent for their children, some children (adult) have the right to consent for their parents, and consent can be given for something that one has an incomplete understanding of or that has been misrepresented.
The basis of your...
Not to be rude, but that statement makes me wonder what actual research you did on what happened, and how much searching for people who had the same doubts as you. Honestly, having questions is understandable, but you go to experts to get the answers.
That is a conspiracy theory I can actually endorse.
And while your questions are rather rhetorical, I'll comment anyway: probably because we don't want to think we can be hurt so badly by an organization like Al-Qaeda, nor do we want to admit that collectively we acted like paranoid sheep in...
Unfortunately, there was a strong push that everyone "assimilate' in the United States for several decades. My maternal grandfather was Ukrainian and German (from Russia) but his parents forbid speaking the language or keeping any of the culture alive because they wished for their children to...
I don't see how it can possibly be gravity when the India plate is actively subducting underneath the Himalayas (at least, the oceanic portion of it appears to be still seismically active underneath the Himalayas, a strong indication that the slab is still attached and sinking into the mantle)...
I'm just having trouble trying to picture how the root could detach like that. But then, tectonics and geophysics are not my specialty. Eh, I think I've hijacked the thread on this for long enough. Thanks, though...
I agree with you, up to a point. Laws should be about the welfare of society. Should you be legally obligated in the above instance? Reasonably, yes, but what if the hypothetical person who could have taken action froze up? Should they face legal repercussions for not having done something...