New Paper In Southeastern Geology About Carolina Bays

New Paper In Southeastern Geology About Carolina Bays

The paper is:

Moore, C. R., M. J. Brooks, D. J. Mallinson, P. R. Parham, A. H. Ivetser,
J. K. Feathers, 2016, The Quaternary evolution of Herdon Bay, a
Carolina Bay on the coastal plain of of North Carolina (USA): Implications
for paleoclimate and oriented lake genesis. Southeastern Geology.
vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 145-171. (March 2016)

They found that LiDAR images showed that Herdon Bay, a Carolina Bay
exhibited a regressive sequence of sand rims that partially backfill the
the older portions of this bay. These rims and subsurface data provided
evidence for the episodic migration of this bay by more than 600 meters
to the northwest. Single grain optically stimulated luminescence (OSL)
age estimates indicate that the oldest rim formed about 36.7 +/- 4.1 ka
and the youngest rim formed around 29.6 +/- 3.1 to 27.2 +/- 2.8 ka.
They interpreted these dates as indicating the rim construction and bay
migration was coincident with Marine Isotope Stage 3 through early
Marine Isotope Stage, which was a time of rapid oscillations in climate.

The PDF file of this paper can be found at either https://goo.gl/7hbsfs
or
https://www.academia.edu/23377396/THE_QUATERNARY_EVOLUTION_OF_HERNDON_BAY_A_CAROLINA_BAY_ON_THE_COASTAL_PLAIN_OF_NORTH_CAROLINA_USA_IMPLICATIONS_FOR_PALEOCLIMATE_AND_ORIENTED_LAKE_GENESIS

A poster can be found at either https://goo.gl/h0S9ge or
https://www.academia.edu/6804154/Rapid_Scour_Sand_Rim_Construction_and_Basin_Migration_of_a_Carolina_Bay_in_Southeastern_North_Carolina

Yours,

Paul H.

Fairy Circles Found in Western Australia And Eelgrass Fairy Rings Found in Baltic Sea

Fairy Circles Found in Western Australia And Eelgrass Fairy Rings Found in Baltic Sea

Some examples of self-organizing features that create natural circles.

Fairy circles found in Australian outback March 15, 2016
by Bob Yirka, Helmholtz Centre For Environmental Research
https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=36336&webc_pm=11/2016 ,
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160315090116.htm , and
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-fairy-circles-australian-outback.html

Dragons, aliens, bugs? Scientists may have solved the mystery
of the desert’s ‘fairy circles’ by Sarah Kaplan, Washington
Post, March 15, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/15/dragons-aliens-bugs-scientists-may-have-solved-the-mystery-of-the-deserts-fairy-circles/

Once thought to exist only in Namibia, circles spotted 6,200
miles away are helping sort out how these odd features form,
Smithsonian
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/mysterious-fairy-circles-have-been-found-western-australia-180958407/

The paper is:

Getzin, S., H. Yizhaq, B. Bell, T. E. Erickson, A. C. Postle, I. Katra,
O. Tzuk, Y. R. Zelnik, K. Wiegand, T. Wiegand, and E. Meron,
2016, Discovery of fairy circles in Australia supports self-
organization theory. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, March 2016; 201522130 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1522130113
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/03/09/1522130113

Another paper is:

Getzin, S., K. Wiegand, T. Wiegand1, H. Yizhaq, J. von Hardenberg,
and E. Meron. 2015, Adopting a spatially explicit perspective to
study the mysterious fairy circles of Namibia. Ecography.
vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1–11.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.00911/abstract

Also, there is:

Mysterious ocean circles off the Baltic coast explained,
University of Southern Denmark, January 30, 2014
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140130102040.htm

The paper is:

Borum, J. Ane L. Raun, H. Hasler-Sheetal, M. O. Pedersen,
O. Pedersen, and M. Holmer, 2013, Eelgrass fairy rings: sulfide as
inhibiting agent. Marine Biology. vol. 161, No. 2, pp. 351-358.
351 DOI: 10.1007/s00227-013-2340-3
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00227-013-2340-3

PDF file at:
http://www.bio-web.dk/ole_pedersen/pdf/Marine%20Biology%202014%20(Eegrass%20fairy%20rings).pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

ECORD to Drill Chicxulub K-Pg Impact Crater

ECORD to Drill Chicxulub K-Pg Impact Crater

Scientists to drill at site of dinosaur-killing asteroid crater
by Jareen Imam, CNN, March 4, 2o16
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/04/world/scientists-drill-impact-crater-irpt/index.htm

Some links:-
Expedition 364 - Chicxulub K-Pg Impact Crater
http://www.eso.ecord.org/expeditions/364/364.php

IODP Proposal 548-Full3 -
http://www.eso.ecord.org/docs/364/548-Full3_Morgan.pdf

Addendum 548-Add4 -
http://www.eso.ecord.org/docs/364/548-Add4_Morgan.pdf

Morgan, J., and S. Gulick, 2012, Highlights of IODP
Proposal Chicxulub: Drilling the K-Pg Impact Crater
(IODP #548). ECORD Newsletter # 19 - October 2012.
http://www.ecord.org/pub/Chicxulub-IODP-NL19.pdf

Yours

Paul H.

Earth's Water Came From Space Dust?

Earth's Water Came From Space Dust?

Sullivan, C., 2015, Earth’s water came from space dust during
planetary formation, Eos. vol. 96, no. 2, p. 3. doi:10.1029/2015EO040147.

" A new analysis of lava from the deep mantle indicates that
water-soaked dust particles, rather than a barrage of icy
comets, asteroids, or other bodies, delivered water to the newly
forming Earth."

Web version at
https://eos.org/articles/earths-water-came-from-space-dust-during-planetary-formation

PDF version in full Eos issue at
https://eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15-Jan_Magazine.pdf?6ffe00

More articles at https://eos.org/news-types/news and in PDF file at:
https://eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/15-Jan_Magazine.pdf?6ffe00

Recent and current issues of Eos News at:
https://eos.org/current-issues

The paper is:-

Hallis, L. J., G. R. Huss, K. Nagashima, G. J. Taylor, S. A.
Halldórsson, D. R. Hilton, M. J. Mottl, and K. J. Meech,
2016, Evidence for primordial water in Earth’s deep mantle.
Science. Vol. 350, Issue 6262, pp. 795-797.
DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4834
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6262/795

Yours,
Paul H.

The Importance of Data Set Provenance (Metadata) for Science

The Importance of Data Set Provenance (Metadata) for Science

Hills, D. J., R. R. Downs, R. Duerr, J. C. Goldstein,
M. A. Parsons, and H. K. Ramapriyan, 2016, The
Importance of Data Set Provenance for Science. Eos
Earth & Space Science News. vol. 97, no. 3 pp. 10-11.
February 1, 2016 (December 4, 2015),
https://eos.org/opinions/the-importance-of-data-set-provenance-for-science

"Scientific research must rest on a solid foundation
of data preservation, provenance, and contextual
information. New technical and normative approaches
are required to identify, capture, and track all
details necessary to demonstrate data validity and
to better ensure scientific reproducibility."

Yours,

Paul H.

Human Radio Transmissions Create Barrier to "Killer Electrons.

Human Radio Transmissions Create Barrier to "Killer Electrons.

Wendel, J., 2016, Human Radio Transmissions
Create Barrier to "Killer Electrons. Eos Earth & Space
Science News. vol. 95, no. 3, p. 3, February 1, 2016
https://eos.org/articles/human-radio-transmissions-create-barrier-to-killer-electrons


SM14C-05: The Impenetrable Barrier Revisited –
Anthroprogenic Effects on Earth’s Radiation Belts
AGU Fall Meeting December 14, 2015 http://bit.ly/barrier-talk
and https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/76627

Yours,

Paul H.

China Building 500-meter Radio Telescope In Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

China Building 500-meter Radio Telescope In Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

China Building World's Largest Radio Telescope for
Astronomy and SET by Giulio Prisco, July 27, 2015
https://hacked.com/china-building-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-astronomy-seti/

China is Building an Absolutely Massive Radio
Telescope by George Dvorsky, July 24, 2015
http://io9.gizmodo.com/china-is-building-an-absolutely-massive-radio-telescope-1719983857

China’s Alien Life Hunt Built Online And Sparks New
‘Contest’ by Carlo Diokno, STGIST,February 20, 2016
http://stgist.com/2016/02/chinas-alien-life-hunt-built-online-and-sparks-new-contest-6994


It is interesting that they are taking advantage of
karst landforms, just as Puerto Rica’s Arecibo
Observatory's 300-meter dish does, to build their
500-meter dish.

Yours,
Paul H.

Mystery of Disappearing Asteroids Solved

Mystery of Disappearing Asteroids Solved

Mystery of disappearing asteroids solved.
by University of Hawaii at Manoa's Institute
for Astronomy, Honolulu, February 17, 2016
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/02/mystery-of-disappearing-asteroids-solved
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/disintegrating_asteroids/

A new study finds that most asteroids and
comets are destroyed in a drawn out, long
hot fizzle, much farther from the Sun than
previously thought."

The paper is:

Granvik, M., A. Morbidelli, R. Jedicke, B. Bolin, W. F. Bottke,
E. Beshore, D. Vokrouhlický, M. Delbo, and P/ Michel, 2016.
Super-catastrophic disruption of asteroids at small perihelion
distances. Nature. vol. 530, no. 7590, pp. 303–306
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v530/n7590/full/nature16934.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Spotting a Fake Fossil at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show

Spotting a Fake Fossil at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show

Spotting a fake fossil at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show
By Sonu Wasu, Tucson News, Feb 12,
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/31213329/spotting-a-fake-fossil-at-the-tucson-gem-and-mineral-show

Tainted Treasures: Federal agents on lookout for stolenhistory
By Sonu Wasu, Tucson News, Feb 12,
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/31203472/tainted-treasures-federal-agents-on-lookout-for-stolen-history

Slideshow: Federal Agents Work to return Stolen treasures
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/slideshow?widgetID=177660&clienttype=generic

Yours,

Paul H.

How Gravitational Waves Were Found

How Gravitational Waves Were Found

Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them by Nicola Twilley
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/gravitational-waves-exist-heres-how-scientists-finally-found-them

Yours,

Paul H

Did The Explorers Club Once Served Mammoth at a Meal?

Did The Explorers Club Once Served Mammoth at a Meal?

Mythical fast, frozen mammoths are one claim that catastrophists of various sorts, including Young
Earth creationists, have used repeatedly as evidence of a global cataclysm in the recent prehistoric past.
the existence of such fast frozen mammoths and / or other megafauna have been argued for on the basis
of a report of either mammoth or other extinct megafauna having been served at some conference.

Below, is how well one such report fared when it was possible to scientifically test the report.

Did The Explorers Club Once Served Mammoth at a Meal?
The Explorers Club Once Served Mammoth at a Meal. Or Did It?
By James Gorman Feb. 3, 2016 http://nyti.ms/209Au7y and
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/science/explorers-club-mammoth-dinner.html

Glass, J. R., M. Davis, T. J. Walsh, E. J. Sargis, and A. Caccone,
2016, Was Frozen Mammoth or Giant Ground Sloth Served
for Dinner at The Explorers Club? PLOS | One,
Published: February 3, 2016DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146825
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0146825

Yours,

Paul H.

Re-homogenizing the Earth-Moon system

Re-homogenizing the Earth-Moon system

Moon was produced by a head-on collision between Earth and a forming planet UCLA-led research reconstructs massive crash, which took place 4.5 billion years ago
by Stuart Wolpert, UCAL Newsroom, January 28, 2016
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/moon-was-produced-by-a-head-on-collision-between-earth-and-a-forming-planet

Are we getting closer to understanding where the Moon actually came from? Los Angeles times
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-moon-formation-20160129-story.html

Young1, E. D., I. E. Kohl, P. H. Warren, D. C. Rubie, S. A. Jacobson, and A. Morbidelli, 2016, Oxygen isotopic evidence for vigorous mixing during the Moon-forming giant impact. Science. vol. 351, no. 6272, pp. 493-496.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6272/493

It seems like this event would have scattered bits and pieces of Theia and pre-impact Earth into space where
they would drift about in space and eventually come back as meteorites.

Yours,
Paul H.

The Aliens are Silent Because They are Dead

The Aliens are Silent Because They are Dead

The aliens are silent because they're dead
Life on other planets would probably go
extinct soon after its origin, due to runaway
heating or cooling on their fledgling planets.
Australian National University, January 21, 2016
http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/the-aliens-are-silent-because-they-are-extinct
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160121110932.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/anu-taa012116.php

Aditya, C., and C. H. Lineweaver, 2016, The
Case for a Gaian Bottleneck: The Biology of
Habitability. Astrobiology. 16(1): 7-22.
Abstract at http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2015.1387
PDF file at http://goo.gl/Kj4Itc and https://goo.gl/OBP4Rn
https://web.archive.org/save/http://adi.life/pubs/ChopraLineweaver2016.pdf

Charles H Lineweaver Publications -
http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~charley/publications.html
or https://goo.gl/W30KtK

Yours,
Paul H.

Earth’s Oldest Water May Have Come from Ancient H2O-Filled Dust

Earth’s Oldest Water May Have Come from Ancient H2O-Filled Dust

Earth’s Oldest Water May Have Come from Ancient H2O-Filled Dust
by Mindy Weisberger, Live Science, November 12, 2015
http://www.livescience.com/52778-earth-water-origins-ancient-dust.html

Baffin Island provides insights into origin of Earth's water, Space Daily
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Baffin_Island_provides_insights_into_origin_of_Earths_water_999.html

Primeval Water in the Earth by G. Jeffrey Taylor< November 30, 2015
Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Nov15/PSRD-Earth-primeval-water.pdf

Hallis, L. J., G. R. Huss, K. Nagashima, G. J. Taylor, S. A. Halldórsson,
D. R. Hilton, M. J. Mottl, and K. J. Meech, 2015, Evidence for
primordial water in Earth’s deep mantle. vol. 350, no. 6262, pp. 795-797
Paper at http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6262/795
Reprint at
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/publications/preprints/15preprints/Hallis_15-188.pdf

Yours,
Paul H.

The Biggest Dinosaur In History? Or Not? Amphicoelias fragillimus Revisited

The Biggest Dinosaur In History? Or Not? Amphicoelias fragillimus Revisited

The Biggest Dinosaur In History May Never Have Existed
By David Goldenberg, ExtremesFiveThirtyEight, January 11, 2016
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-biggest-dinosaur-in-history-may-never-have-existed/

Amphicoelias - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphicoelias

Yours,
Paul H.

The Meteorite and the Hidden Hoax

The Meteorite and the Hidden Hoax

The Meteorite and the Hidden Hoax
Science Series
BBC Radio 4
20 January 2016
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06wg805

or audio at:
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03fcypq.mp3

Yours,
Paul H.

Life's Rocky Start

Life's Rocky Start

Life's Rocky Start
53:07Aired: 01/13/16 Rating: TV-G
What is the secret link between rocks and minerals, and every living thing on Earth?
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365642819/

Yours,
Paul H.

New Diamond-bearing Tourmaline Species Uncovered

New Diamond-bearing Tourmaline Species Uncovered

LSU Petrologist Uncovers New Diamond-bearing Tourmaline Species
http://www.lsu.edu/science/news_events/cos-news-events/news-events-2015/DarrellHenry_Maruyamaite.php

Lussier, A., N. A. Ball, F. C. Hawthorne, D. J. Henry, R. Shimizu,
Y. Ogasawara, and T. Ota, ip, Maruyamaite,
K(MgAl2)(Al5Mg)Si6O18(BO3)3(OH)3O, a potassium-dominant
tourmaline from the ultrahigh-pressure Kokchetav massif,
northern Kazakhstan: Description and crystal structure.
American Mineralogist, preprint.
http://www.minsocam.org/msa/ammin/AM_Preprints/5359HawthornePreprintFeb.pdf

Maruyamaite - http://www.mindat.org/min-46075.html

Lussier, A., Ball, N.A., Hawthorne, F.C., Henry, D.J., Shimizu,
R., Ogasawara, Y. and Ota, T. (2014) Maruyamaite, IMA
2013- 123. CNMNC Newsletter No. 20, June 2014, page 550;
Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 549-558.
http://nrmima.nrm.se/CNMNC%20NEWSLETTER%2020.pdf

Yours,
Paul H.

Star’s Bizarre Optical Antics at Least a Century Old

Star’s Bizarre Optical Antics at Least a Century Old

Star’s bizarre optical antics go back at least a century.
Alien civilization still on the table as data comes out
of the archives. by John Timmer, Ars Technica, Jan. 19, 2016
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/stars-bizarre-optical-antics-go-back-at-least-a-century/

KIC 8462852 Faded at an Average Rate of 0.165+-0.013
Magnitudes Per Century From 1890 To 1989 by Bradley
E. Schaefer (Submitted on 13 Jan 2016) rXiv:1601.03256v1
[astro-ph.SR] http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03256

Yours,

Paul H.

Dance of the dinosaurs?

Dance of the dinosaurs?

Dance of the dinosaurs? Strange gouges hint at bird-like
mating rituals by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 6, 2016
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-dinosaurs-mating-courtship-birds-20160107-story.html

Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Had Dancing Competitions Over Mates
by edd, Fossil forum, January 7, 2016
http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/60412-meat-eating-dinosaurs-had-dancing-competitions-over-mates/

Lockley, M. G., R. T. McCrea, L. G. Buckley, J. D. Lim, N. A. Matthews,
and many others, 2016, Theropod courtship: large scale physical
evidence of display arenas and avian-like scrape ceremony
behaviour by Cretaceous dinosaurs. Scientific Reports. vol. 6,
Article no: 18952 (2016) http://www.nature.com/articles/srep18952

Yours,
Paul H