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Posted by spaceart on February 15, 2006, 5:58 pm
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Ken S. Tucker wrote:
> al wrote:
> > The following are from Inner Earth A Search for Anomalies by William R
> > Corliss
> >
> >
> >
> > Unexpected temperature profiles.
> >
> > In two deep holes, the temperatures have increased with depth far more
> > rapidly than predicted.
> >
> >
> >
> > U.S.S.R. Before drilling began on the Kola Peninsula, the scientific
> > expectation was that temperatures would increase about 1=B0C per hundred
> > meters. In prac=ADtice, the rate of increase was 2.5=B0C be=ADlow 3 kil=
ometres. At
> > the 10-kilometer level, the temperature was 180=B0C rather than the exp=
ected
> > 100=B0C. (R1, R2)
> >
> > In a later report: "Minister of Geology Yevgeny A. Kozlovsky has report=
ed...
> > that 'with increasing depth in the Kola hole, the expected increase in =
rock
> > den=ADsities was not recorded. Neither was any increase in the speed of
> > seismic waves nor any other changes in the physical properties of the r=
ocks
> > detected. Thus_ the traditional idea that ge~hy 1,Ga1 data obtained from
> >
> > "Journey to the earths centre" San Diego Union p.A3
> > October 9 1981
> >
> > Kerr, Richard A. "Continental drilling heading deeper" Science, 2241418=
1984
> >
> >
> >
> > Germany. At the bottom of a 3.5-kilo=ADmeter hole drilled in the Oberpf=
alz
> > For=ADest, German geophysicists measured 118=B0C instead of the anticip=
ated
> > 80=B0C. (R5)
> >
> >
> >
> > A later report concerning the Oberpfalz site states that below 500 mete=
rs
> > the temperature gradient was 28-30=B0C per kilometre, instead of the
> > anticipated 22=B0C per kilometre. Further, at the completion of the hol=
e at
> > 4000 meters, the tempera=ADture was 100=B0C. Earlier in the drilling, a=
t 3400
> > meters, the drill encountered brine with a temperature of 118=B0C. This=
is the
> > temperature stated in the above paragraph. (R9)
> >
> > Toro, Taryn "Geology hits new depths" New Scientist p24 September 29 19=
90
> >
> >
> >
> > USSR
> >
> > Fractured rocks with circulating fluids at great depths.
> >
> > Conventional wisdom has been that the high pressures deep in the earth =
would
> > close rock fractures and reduce porosity to near zero.
> >
> > Circulating fluids were not expected
> >
> > R A Kerr wrote that the most surprising discovery in the Kola superdeep
> > boreholes is the circulating fluids.---------------gasses and inflows of
> > strongly mineralised water have been encountered. This is so even near =
the
> > present base 11.5 Km of the borehole. Gasses include methane and other
> > hydrocarbons.
> >
> > See above for ref 2
> >
> >
> >
> > The Conrad discontinuity and others predicted by geology were not
> > encountered during the bore.
> >
> > al
>
> Thank you al.
> Dow and I have argued the idea that the primary source
> of so-called "fossil fuels" is hydrocarbons formed deep
> in the earth, with the methane trapped at the time of
> earth's formation. Your post helps my argument!
> Ken
All it really goes to demonstrate is that a planet of some
1,097,509,500,000,000,000,000 cubic meters is not homogenous. It would
be much more surprising if there were no anomalies.
R
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