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Post by 1dave on Jan 30, 2023 19:03:40 GMT -5
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Post by mohs on Jan 30, 2023 20:16:20 GMT -5
I zoomed ahead &
the mystery to me
was:
why is that guy
frying a
flat jack ?
mostly
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Post by 1dave on Jan 30, 2023 22:13:59 GMT -5
I zoomed ahead & the mystery to me was: why is that guy frying a flat jack ? mostly To demonstrate how all that 10,000' deep salt flowed down out of the eastern USA toward the west- southwest gulf. |
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Post by mohs on Jan 30, 2023 22:33:35 GMT -5
Thanks Dave !
That would be a mystery
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Post by 1dave on Jan 30, 2023 22:57:36 GMT -5
Not at all likely, but what if it was the result of a huge SALT asteroid impact?
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Post by mohs on Jan 31, 2023 15:18:30 GMT -5
interesting Dave and possible as u well know meteorites peppered the earth plenty in the past m  hsalty |
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Post by victor1941 on Feb 1, 2023 10:38:16 GMT -5
1dave, very interesting concept and drilling observations for what might have occurred. I wonder if the meteor impact off of the Yucatan influenced the development of the salt mass or any of the salt domes used for oil storage in the southern coastal area. The borings definitely indicate that salt was present over a large area. I also find it interesting that when Pangea split apart the southern area with salt domes might have been part of a salt deposition area. It is also significant that oil is extracted from the Gulf of Mexico from different depths and is also related to the salt strata.
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wpotterw
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Post by wpotterw on Feb 2, 2023 6:52:31 GMT -5
My first job out of college was working for the Petty Ray Geophysical division of Geosource processing seismic data in the Gulf for Gulf Oil. Where the sediment layers curl upward and pinch out is where the oil in oil-bearing layers is trapped and pooled against the diapirs and domes. It was fun. |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Feb 2, 2023 12:51:42 GMT -5
This is a single massive flood theory Dave: Oil rig locations in Gulf of Mexico, the graveyards of dinosaurs and trees from the rich central USA plains. Deep water drilling mastered around 2001.  Start with a consolidated Plio-Pleistocene sediment layer on top.Then a +/- Consolidated salt layer. Then a consolidated oil bearing layer. This looks like a single massive flood event.  Looks like the mechanics of a massive flood deposit one layer on top of the other, newest and final Plio-Pleistocene deposit on top, successive older layers below. Each layer depleted as it is washed southward. This image also looks like a single massive flood event:  Lack of layer mixing points to single massive flood event. First the dinosaurs and organics layer deposited, then a source of (surface evaporated ?) salt layer deposited(think Salt Lake Utah covering a great amount of central USA), then the mixture of massive sands and clays to top it off. All washed down from the central USA in logical order catastrophically and in a dynamically complex fashion as is the case with deposits from any powerful flood event. The oil is for the most part under the salt and the Plio-Pleistocene sediment layer. This would disprove the theories of the schools of geology that were thought up beginning in AD 1750. The same schools we have been sending our children to for 2 centuries. Nope, can't admit that we humans might be wrong; we have made our mind up that these distinct layers deposited over 100,000's of years. The mass flood event does have great selling points. The Sigsbee escarpment appears to be the end of the massive deposit. |
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