Comments on: For our resident Geologists http://chuck.goolsbee.org/archives/1290  goolsbee.org, serving useless content from an undisclosed location since 1997 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:17:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: gondwana http://chuck.goolsbee.org/archives/1290/comment-page-1#comment-2760 gondwana Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:04:51 +0000 http://chuck.goolsbee.org/?p=1290#comment-2760 not very happy about the way NZ splits in the future... looks nasty for where I live! ;-) but very nice computer fun... Jerome not very happy about the way NZ splits in the future… looks nasty for where I live! ;-)

but very nice computer fun…

Jerome

]]> By: vrooomie http://chuck.goolsbee.org/archives/1290/comment-page-1#comment-2759 vrooomie Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:42:01 +0000 http://chuck.goolsbee.org/?p=1290#comment-2759 OK, now that I've seen it, here's my take on it: Up till the Holocene (now!) the video is *reasonably* correct, and as we map more it will get closer to the 'rightest' we can be. We have mapped enough layers and surfaces, sinks and seas, to get a fairly good 'picture' of how our current land masses became what we know today. From the Holocene on (some are wanting a new age, the "Anthropocene" to describe now on, till we all croak!), it's pretty much geopoetry! We can forecast fairly well perhaps 100,000 years into the future but beyond that, the rest is a country song. Cute, catchy, but VERY loosely based on reality. Pretty cool video, in any case! OK, now that I’ve seen it, here’s my take on it: Up till the Holocene (now!) the video is *reasonably* correct, and as we map more it will get closer to the ‘rightest’ we can be. We have mapped enough layers and surfaces, sinks and seas, to get a fairly good ‘picture’ of how our current land masses became what we know today.

From the Holocene on (some are wanting a new age, the “Anthropocene” to describe now on, till we all croak!), it’s pretty much geopoetry! We can forecast fairly well perhaps 100,000 years into the future but beyond that, the rest is a country song. Cute, catchy, but VERY loosely based on reality.

Pretty cool video, in any case!

]]> By: vrooomie http://chuck.goolsbee.org/archives/1290/comment-page-1#comment-2757 vrooomie Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:23:14 +0000 http://chuck.goolsbee.org/?p=1290#comment-2757 And, in true gummint form, I'm blocked seeing it...!! I'll view it when I git home! And, in true gummint form, I’m blocked seeing it…!! I’ll view it when I git home!

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