Re: Core Drilling the San Andreas Fault

agreed, the use of talc on most stuff is hype and advertising gimmick, only
to get you to buy more of that useless powder.

humans never evolved to slather dust, mud and gunk all over themselves, its
a fallback to medicine man/voodoo/spiritual moogoo culture!

& guess what, we CAN get along without 95 percent of the crap sold to us
anyway!

even knowing what lies beneath us is irrelevant 99 percent of the time
spent that we live too!

these scientists are just drumming up more and more ways to pour money down
a hole ;-))
before you know it, they will say we NEED to live underground to truly enjoy
life ;-))

now im just getting silly..................


"Jo Schaper" <jonot34schaperat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Charles wrote:
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:45:43 -0500, Jo Schaper
<jonot34schaperat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fault5oct05,0,4466797.story?coll=la-
home-center

Core samples taken 2 miles deep reveal that the answer to having
plates
slip past one another without a quake may be baby powder.
Are we meant to assume they mean talc? It's not mentioned anywhere in
the
article
other than the inference in the title.
cheers
Bill

I agree -- it's a dumb headline with no secondary reference. And most
baby powder these days (post WR Grace) is cornstarch.

The quakes at Paso Robles are the ghosts of the American Korean war
vets
like my dad who used to rumble it up there on a 24 hour pass from Camp
Roberts.


Part way through the article it says:


Among the immediate findings was the discovery of serpentine in the
samples, which could help explain why the plates there creep along
relatively smoothly.

When exposed to water, heat and pressure, serpentine can dissolve and
crystallize as talc. And talc, long used in baby powder, is well known
for reducing friction. Talc was found in some of the soil extracted in
2005, but the new samples have not yet been analyzed for its presence.

That was not in the squib quoted here, and you're giving the American
public *way* too much credit for understanding metamorphic geology. Most
people these days, you say talc, and if they have any cognition at all,
they think of either asbestosis,(the media's typical misunderstanding of
all fibrous minerals) or the fact that generations of kids have chewed
on talc in the crayons and are therefore likely to die of asbestosis.
[sic.]

Beyond geology, talcum powder was actually used more recently as women's
face powder and perfumed powder replacing deodorant than as baby powder.
I'm the oldest of five, and never understood why would one want to
powder a baby, anyway? (Unless, of course, it was your little brother,
and he deserved it.)


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