Re: NASA Worldwind, & Large scale features in Africa

on Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:46:37 GMT, George <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sez:

` "pete" <vincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
` news:d7olnt$7ds$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
` > on Thu, 02 Jun 2005 02:00:01 +0100, Aidan Karley
` > <doIlookDAFTenoughTOpost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sez:
` > ` In article <d6lpi0$mpa$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pete wrote:
` > ` > Once again, my enquiries dangle unresponded for days. What ever
` > happened
` > ` > to all the denizens here?
` > ` >
` > ` I got a phone call at 15:30 one day, which put me out to sea for
` > ` the next 14 days. It's called working for a living.
` > `
` > But why should you be the only one to respond? Not that I didn't
` > appreciate your help. It's just that I used to be able to elicit
` > about ten responses, usually including personal anecdotes from
` > folk who had been to [whatever] the area, and I'd come away
` > hugely educated. That's what used to keep me reading here.
` > Having drifted away for a while, it seems a lot of the old
` > regulars are gone now too. Oh well...
` >

` Don't despair. Tis the season for all things geological. I'm sure a lot
` of them will be back before you know it.

Well, while you're in the neighbourhood, and this thread seems a bit
active again, perhaps you could offer some speculation on the cause
of the basin in southwestern Libya which shows so prominently in
the satellite image used for Google maps and the top level of NASA's
WorldWind. What causal process is implied in the term "synclinal basin"?
Is it just a coincidental function of mountain building surrounding
the area, or is the basin the driver and the surrounding ridges its
result?


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