Notes:...the gloom continues...Trout 0-19 (still with .441 on base percentage, but now 290 BA)...and Ohtani victimized for Verlander's 2500th strike out...but, had the solo homer in last night's 9th inning...Angels lost that one 1-7 Rays, and the night before to Verlander and the Astros 2-0...Verlander is a beast...completed the game, and protected the 2 run lead, come by an error, and an immediate homerun, in like the second inning...went to both games...now a 3 game losing streak...1 for five on this homestand!...Trout in the third spot tonight...Cozart, Simmons, Trout...Tropeano pitching tonight...Skaggs last night, Richards night before...both did great...the bullpen, and no offense, and crucial errors, the gloom!...game on!...on the radio...K...Arlington Man and La Brea Woman...:)...brb...Hermasio in LF...replacing Upton who got hit on the wrist last night...Hermasio makes a good catch...rookie up from the minors!...
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Arlington Springs: The Earliest Evidence for Paleoindians in Coastal CaliforniaArlington Springs Man broke into the news following the Fifth California Islands Symposium held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in 1999. Newspapers, magazines, television news, and radio programs around the world reported on what is arguably the earliest dated human remains in either North or South America.
https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/historyculture/arlington.htm
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ground out to Simmons...to bottom 1st...there were Pygmy Mammoths on Santa Rosa...some of the Islands, like Cedros, had to have had land bridges...though for the mammoths that could have been long long ago...
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Remains of M. exilis have been discovered on three of the northern Channel Islands of California since 1856: Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel, which together with Anacapa were the highest portions of the now mostly submerged superisland of Santa Rosae. The late Pleistocene elephant appears to have survived on the islands until the arrival of the humans[11] associated with Arlington Springs Man around 13,000 years ago[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_mammoth
hmmph...two out, Trout up...'1 for 22 on this homestand with no rbi's'...their playing too 'tight'...too many close games in a row...walks...they just don't pitch to him...Pujols up...fly out...somehow that is immeasurably sad that the Mammoths became isolated on a large island as the ocean rose, then on small islands, shrunk, then humans came along and finished them off...rapacious we are...Robertson with HR...Rays 1-0...
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La Brea Woman is the name for the only human whose remains have ever been found in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. The remains, first discovered in the pits in 1914, were the partial skeleton of a woman[1] At around 18-25 years of age at death, she has been dated at 10,220–10,250 cal yr BP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Woman
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There are five 'tar pits' in the world...one in Trinidad, and four in California..think I have that right...
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Major tar pits include Binagadi asphalt lake, the La Brea Tar Pits, the Carpinteria Tar Pits, the McKittrick Tar Pits, Pitch Lake, and Lake Bermudez.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_pit
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and there's an extinct one it looks like by the Dead Sea...brb...
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“Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them.” (Gen 14:10).
http://dannythedigger.com/newsletter/tar-pits-and-the-bible
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Ohtani up...well, I never...how odd!...one wonders if the warriors are still in them!...a leadoff double for Ohtani!!!...was behind the count 0-2...Marti up...
heck...Johnny Field nabs a soft liner...inning over...Ohtani stranded...lots of runners stranded in these last games...Rays another HR...3-0...Israel is filling up the tar pits...safety reasons...wonder is just where the ancient ones were...high up from the Dead Sea shore, or now under the Dead Sea...tar still wells up in the Sea...but, its drying up!...dams now on the Jordan...and pans made to dry out the Sea for minerals...global warming will dry it out more...hooey...now two runners on, 1st and 2nd...think those scouring for archaeological evidence of Bible stories would have been all over these tar pits...another run in...four hits in a row...
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The earliest known use of bitumen was by Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals some 40,000 years ago. At Neanderthal sites such as Gura Cheii Cave (Romania) and Hummal and Umm El Tlel in Syria, bitumen was found adhering to stone tools, probably to fasten a wooden or ivory haft to the sharp-edged tools.
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Asphaltum was also used for waterproofing basketry and caulking sea-going canoes. The earliest identified bitumen in the Channel Islands so far is in deposits dated between 10,000-7,000 cal BP at Cave of the Chimneys on San Miguel island. The presence of bitumen increases during the Middle Holocene (7000-3500 cal BP, and basketry impressions and clusters of tarred pebbles show up as early as 5,000 years ago. The fluorescence of bitumen may be associated with the invention of the plank canoe (tomol) in the late Holocene (3500-200 cal BP).
https://www.thoughtco.com/bitumen-history-of-black-goo-170085
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I'd like to go see the tar pits in Carpentaria, near Santa Barbara, and the ones near Bakersfield, where I visit relatives...public park in Carpentaria has a 'tomol' and Indian village...Simmons K...two out...Trout up...K...on to 4th...
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One scientist of the group, Albert Gaudry, wrote a report on this hill. Joseph Prestwich (1812–1896), a prominent geologist in England (Figure 7), read this report and saw confirmation for a theory he was developing. From his own investigations of raised beaches, rubble drift, and bones in caves, Prestwich believed a gigantic flood of short duration submerged Western Europe near the end of the glacial, or Pleistocene, period.
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After the continents upheaved, the surface landscape comprising Southern California was littered with bones. Strong currents of water retreating off the land in the late Flood period and during the fluvial activity of the post-Flood period transported and redistributed the bones to lower elevations. Some bones and soggy wood debris entered a small number of funnel-shaped pits, newly formed by natural gas blowouts caused by earthquake tremors. Oil from ruptured underground reservoirs seeped into these pits and flowed over the surrounding bone-strewn plain. This lake of oil thickened into tar, and its surface developed a hard crust, which sealed the pits and kept the matrix in a semiliquefied state. The slab of boniferous asphalt found in 1975 was part of this lake. Bones beyond the reach of the lake dissolved from decay and weathering. https://creationresearch.org/la-brea-tar-pits-evidence-catastrophic-flood/
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that's from a 'creationist' site...has it that the La Brea fossils arrived via Noah's flood...or some such...Ohtani on third...don't know how he got there! (W)...some wild pitches...line out...Rays 4-0...top of 5th....well...there's something called 'gaslighting'...brb...
"manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity."
another HR...Rays 5...there's a lot of that going on...'face on mars'...'we didn't land on the moon'...news today has it a republican claims the ocean is rising because more dirt is washing off the continents by rivers into the ocean filling up the ocean basins...this to continue the drum beat poo pooing scientific evidence of global warming...but, but, I find, sea level rise is caused by the ocean basins changing in depth...there's this notion, let me see if I can relate it right...that when there's an ice age, upper North America has more ice than Antarctica does...two miles thick...and this weighs down on the continent, all around the world this too...all the continents...and this effects the volcanos in the ocean basins...I forget if they erupt more or less...and, well, the basins themselves rise up, making the oceans shallower--everything is floating on the lava mantel...maybe I can find better words!...brb...oh, another run, runner at the corners...
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Because Earth's rotation and its orbit around the sun periodically change slightly, the insolation also varies. If you examine this variation in detail, different overlapping cycles of around 20,000, 40,000 and 100,000 years are recognizable.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130807134127.htm
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famously, one can see in sonar pictures of the Ocean Basins, the seams of the tectonic plates spreading...and too, out from the middle seams, one sees a kind of banding...this banding has been correlated to the precession of the equinox, the earth's tilt...as the earth tilts over more, it warms up in the Northern Hemisphere...brb...
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The sea-bottom results have now been compared to hydrogen isotope ratios in deep boreholes in the ice sheets of Antarctica, which took nearly a million years to accumulate (Science, 11 June 2004, p. 1609). Deep-sea sediments show that in the last million years, but not before, the variation is dominated by a periodicity around 100,000 years. Its origin, the article states, "is one of the unanswered, yet fundamental questions." Ice cores could help explain it.
https://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sprecess.htm
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the earth warms up, the ice melts, the continents rebound, volcanos go off, cool thing, snow falls again as the earth's tilt goes into the cool end of the cycle, another ice age, the continents heavy with ice...and all this is in the seafloor banding record...I have this terrible!...brb...
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In December 1976 they published a landmark climate paper in Science, showing that climate records contained the same cycles as the three parameters that vary the Earth's orbit: eccentricity, obliquity and precession (shown in Figure 1).
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2016-12-ice-ages-linked-earth-orbitbut.html#jCp
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...having trouble finding again the volcano part...brb...Young and Cozart on at the corners...one out...Simmons got a hit!...two runs score...Trout up...fly out...two out...Pujols K...
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Glacial melt may also be re-awakening dormant earthquakes and volcanoes.
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hooey...Rays execute a squeeze play!...Rays 7-2...insult to injury...E2...they keep just dropping the ball once having corralled it!...too tight...always behind...well, I have it that the volcanoes play a part in a 40,000 year cycle, which isn't exact...Ohtani grounds out to first...bottom of 6th...and reading about the Volcanoes I came across a thought that 'hot spots', like Hawaii and Yellowstone, are left over plumes from enormous eruptions...site gave example of lava lamp...site was actually a youtube!...a big glob of magma works its way up, erupts, and the 'stem' it rose on, continues as the hot spot...Young and Hermisio Ks...top of 8th...
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In addition to plate tectonics (Chapter 5), the Earth also has plume tectonics.
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As it approaches the surface, the plume melts the crust to develop a flat head of basalt magma that can be 1000 km across and 100 km thick. Penetrating the crust, the plume generates enormous volcanic eruptions that pour hundreds of thousands of cubic kilometers of basalt ("flood basalts") out over the surface. If a plume erupts through a continent, it blasts material into the atmosphere as well. After the head of the plume has erupted, the much narrower tail will continue to erupt for 100 m.y. or more, but now its effects are more local, affecting only 100 km or so of terrain as it forms a long-lasting hot spot of volcanic activity.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/events/cowen2a.html
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hmmph...lava lamps...anyway, sea level can rise or fall as the glaciers recede or grow...Trout up...he is hitting the ball good...but right at defenders...there he goes...Home Run!...:)...right now, sea level is the highest it has been in a very long time...and this after being 300 feet or so lower just 12,000 years ago...I've thought to look for ancient beaches along the so cal coast, but there aren't any...in the mountains behind Salt Lake City one can see such 'benches'...brb...
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This well-developed marine terrace near Shell Beach in Sonoma County has two large rock pinnacles that were once "sea stacks" like those seen offshore today.
https://www.kqed.org/science/216656/californias-coast-gives-clues-to-changing-sea-level
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well, I was wrong...I thought there were no terraces, old beaches, but now I see that wide plane from San Clemente to Oceanside is a marine terrace...hadn't thought...brb...bottom of 9th...take a pitch Cozart...called strike...3-1...Cozart walks...two on two out...Simmons pops out...more gloom...
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