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Notes: game on...on the radio...Warriors 46 Rockets 39...couple minutes left in half...back from the Angels/Rays game...Angels 5 Rays 2...Ohtani stopped the skid, went 7 2/3rds innings...Maldanado with HR, Cozart with two sac rbis, and run across...and Trout turned a walk into a triple and run across, and another walk pushed along with Simmon's single and run across on Cozart's second sac...Anderson and Parker got four outs in relief and saved it...just!...a fine day at the ballpark!...a real hard scrabble effort by the offense...Ohtani looked in a zone, though gave up a couple runs...got out of trouble...got the Angels out of the gloom!...gloom is kind of my normal state...I was looking about for more on lakes drying...the Dead Sea...and the bronze age towns thereabout archaeologist are digging up there...for sometime...and noted a landslide in Germany some think from a comet and related to these 'five' Dead Sea towns...for sometime...and read about the landslide, and how it moved so fast, that it made like pumice like stones from the heat of friction...a characteristic of giant landslides...which I got to looking at...one in Norway a whopper, and a concern to happen again, and maybe caused by drilling for gas thereabout...for sometime...and I recalled on reading about SoCal's coasts, and marine terraces, a hundred mile an hour landslide that swept in from a moutanin off the coast...for sometime...and these landslides make huge Tsunamis...for sometime...the highest wave ever surfed in 1959 Alaska...for sometime...and paddling through all that, found this, which is really a good paragraph!...
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Even in comparatively recent times, the islands have not always looked as they do today. During the last Ice Age, which lasted until about ten thousand years ago, sea level was about 400 feet lower than it is today. The four northern islands that are now separated by water were once connected into one large island, which geologists have named 'Santa Rosae', the nearest point at that time being about five miles from the mainland. Large Columbian mammoths swam to Santa Rosae island and soon, because of isolation and dwindling food supplies, became much smaller. Evidence of these animals has been found as fossils of pygmy mammoths on the islands of Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel.
https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/nature/geologicformations.htm
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Warriors 61-43...Rockets only 43 points in first half...corner 3 by Durant...a 10-0 run for the Warriors to start the half...Warriors are just mean!...bitumen...
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Natural deposits of bitumen include lakes such as the Pitch Lake in Trinidad and Tobago and Lake Bermudez in Venezuela. Natural seeps occur in the La Brea Tar Pits and in the Dead Sea.
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The 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) long Euphrates Tunnel beneath the river Euphrates at Babylon in the time of Queen Semiramis (ca. 800 BC) was reportedly constructed of burnt bricks covered with bitumen as a waterproofing agent.[26]
Bitumen was used by ancient Egyptians to embalm mummies.[2][27] The Persian word for asphalt is moom, which is related to the English word mummy. The Egyptians' primary source of bitumen was the Dead Sea, which the Romans knew as Palus Asphaltites (Asphalt Lake).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt
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bitumen another word for asphalt...the tar pits of Carpentaria, Bakersfield, the Dead Sea, have been mined...the asphalt sometimes used for roads...all our roads are bitumen...the tar sands of fracking oil fame are bitumen...
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Bitumen was used in early photographic technology. In 1826 or 1827, it was used by French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce to make the oldest surviving photograph from nature. The bitumen was thinly coated onto a pewter plate which was then exposed in a camera.
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a curio!...and this one too!!!
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The use of bitumen as a glaze to set in shadow or mixed with other colors to render a darker tone resulted in the eventual deterioration of many paintings, for instance those of Delacroix. Perhaps the most famous example of the destructiveness of bitumen is Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1818–1819), where his use of bitumen caused the brilliant colors to degenerate into dark greens and blacks and the paint and canvas to buckle.
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Warriors 88-67...hmmph...I'm gonna take a nap!
:)
DavidDavid
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