The Sound Of Settled Science

8 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

1. ‘Why are you putting a seismometer here?”
   Oilfield Fracking.

2. Maybe they are looking for the cause of global warming.
   What?
   Oh yeah I forgot.

3. One of the reasons there has been a massive increase in the number of earthquakes is the large increase in seismometers and their improved sensitivity. The link with fracking is likely due in a large part to these 2 factors.
   The gravity anomaly from this failed rift system goes right across Lake Superior and crosses Canada into Greenland.
   The article mentions that airborne measurements of magnetics and gravity back in the 1950s and 1960s identified this rift system. Airborne gravity wasn’t available back then. It would have been airborne magnetics and ground gravity. For many decades gravity measurements were the most sensitive measurements made on planet Earth.

4. The gravity meter says that I am up a pound this week. Probably from cabin fever imposed by the latest cold snap.

5. BEER!!!!

6. “The article mentions that airborne measurements of magnetics and gravity back in the 1950s and 1960s identified this rift system. Airborne gravity wasn’t available back then. It would have been airborne magnetics and ground gravity. For many decades gravity measurements were the most sensitive measurements made on planet Earth.”
   The technology was called Airborne “MAD”…and it was a magnetic detector the extended from the rear of the Airplane (like a long dong dick).. Very nice way to detect Submarines.. etc

7. Allan Danzig wrote a short story called “The Great Nebraska Sea” which is almost a perfect description of what might have been – or what may yet still come to be…

8. North America Late Cretaceous (~75mya) Western Interior Seaway
   https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/North_America_Late_Cretaceous_(~75mya)_Western_Interoir_Seaway_map_PLoS_ONE.png