Plausible, considering just how much bizarre stuff there is close to the crust:
Edit: we’re also getting better at mapping the mantle on a crude scale: (link contains animated ads)
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More from Mark Witton’s blog, not as technical:
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Much (all?) of that is due to pressure/temperature that incorporates extra H and O into minerals. When pressure is released the H and O move to a lower energy state and the rock becomes “wet”. As far as “oceans” go, maybe the 2H-and-O minerals are the ones in the mantle that plasticly flow? That’s ocean-like. Ish.
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hmm, yeah, it is confusing. sounds like the water is bound up in mineral form but it still flows around.
Ringwoodite in the lower half of the transition zone is inferred to
play a pivotal role in mantle dynamics, and the plastic properties of
ringwoodite are thought to be critical in determining flow of material
in this part of the mantle. The solubility of hydroxide in ringwoodite is important because of the effect of hydrogen upon rheology.
Ringwoodite synthesized at conditions appropriate for the transition
zone has been found to contain up to 2.6 weight percent water.[11][12]
Because the transition zone between the Earth’s upper and lower
mantle helps govern the scale of mass and heat transport throughout the
Earth, the presence of water within this region, whether global or
localized, may have a significant effect on mantle rheology and
therefore mantle circulation.[13]
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I love when half-remembered shit from geology class doesn’t embarrass me.
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This cracks me right up…
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They’re both tortoiseshells!
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Charles Dawson was involved in several other hoaxes. It’s more likely that he was the hoaxer, or the chief hoaxer, of the Piltdown finds, rather than one of the victims. Scientists were naturally reluctant to assume forgery, butsome initially suspected an accidental association of an ape mandible with a human cranium, until Piltdown 2 seemed to confirm Piltdown 1.
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There is an opera about Nixon in China…?
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he also wrote
and the music to
and no one would bat an eye if those were plays or films.
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It’s hard to beat the Dancing Maos.
Although The Death Of Klinghoffer is one of my favorite modern operas.
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I’ve been watching these videos from Amoeba records, What’s in My Bag? Saw the one with Big Boi last night. He spends like 2/3rds of it waxing poetic about Kate Bush!
I <3 Big Boi!
Also, WHERE IS MY BIG BOI/KATE BUSH ALBUM??!!!???
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Is this a thing? Please tell me it’s a thing.
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I keep hearing rumors… She’s probably the hold up, since she’s in semi-retirement. I think if she said yes, he’d hop on a plane to England yesterday, ready to record with her. He’s a true fan boy. In the clip, he says the two most influential artists for him are her and Bob Marley…
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