Monday, April 6, 2009
21 dec. 2007
illegitimate child let me tell you a story of yr ancestors nevermind the distance lingering so close in yr past we wont talk abou tit because thats over and theres no more to talk about right? here you can try one of these if you like but he says oh no no as he reaches for one shes sof t and sweet juust the way shes supposed to be its better for her now without his drink but is it good? divide and conquer i suppose it works out ill cut the firewood and you bake those biscuits and fry me up some okra it all makes sense considering my spirit is broken oh no no its no problem i can sleep in her room i want to sleep in her room yes im crying but i want to oh man wait til i tell the boys the boat about my hairy lesbian vegetarian sister nevermind the fact i never said i was a lesbian i wont correct you this time you should really reconsider this whole vegetarian thing each meal how bout a piece a ham? i reckon this here steak is mighty tasty sure you dont want some? i know you eatin it in the bathroom after were alls leepin make sure you shave those pits before i see ya again yhear? i didnt go sleeveless but you did why dont you have to? why would a pretty little thing like you go to all that trouble to make yrself to ugly? it was no trouble at all really in fact thats the point as you walk around with yr belly hangin out havent seen you in years but youll use this time to complain complain about the rest of my blood and how they must have something against you im yr granddaughter you know im here talkin to you oh yr sorry thats alright i suppose ill understand lets all gather round a laugh til our guts split over the young impressionable young boy of the east coast while he tells us about the mexicans and the italians and the blacks the blacks the blacks shoulda been thrown overboard we got too much spaghetti in this country but the worse problem is we got too many italians in this country theres more of them than us these days yknow he asks well how do you think we got here grasshopper? perhaps half our blood spurted out the earth were living off but the other half yr blood bloodied that half whatcha think about that? then theres little black purr i thoguht was just a baby it turns out shes a mama go figure she keeps close i like her there of course theres blonde and auburn glass eyed hoverer maybe ill get to saddle him up and we can hover together hes an old man now yknow and her belongings are all right where she left em shed like it that i snuck little purr in firelight trivia sans board keeps us up all night though you have to break yr back some more at dawn til dusk an encylopedia you are the brilliance of you both frightens my scatteredness even though im here my night thoughts filled with geometric patterns an d lucid dreaming where am i GOING? can you hear that? neither can i
Friday, March 13, 2009
spring sun hello !
accomplishment feels like pushing forward exploding into future. procrastination need not apply i am ready ! knowledge no longer haphazardly forced down throat but flirts, unabashed, as if to say, "can you catch me ?" stride elongates pace quickens oh glorious just in time for life revival ! night before last met my first dream mouth shut fingers flying. felt like i was floating how content. home's honey swells lip's outline but spoonful a day keeps the greater at bay. if this i tell myself believe it true, who's to qualify mind's eye ? it is mine for me but share if you like. do you know some sort of universal truth i have missed out on? only with experience formulation occurs it is all different but perhaps it finds the same ? my fear is that it does not but hopeless cause must lose myself in it before too late ! find comfort in fact that all that is is right now and it isn't going away no matter how far you run and you thought flat feet were a setback !
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Primer
Accummulation zone
A glacier is an open system, with inputs of snow and outputs of ice, meltwater, and water vapor. In the accumulation zone at its upper end, snowfall and other moisture feed a glacier. This area ends at the firn line, indicating where the winter snow and ice accumulation survived the summer melting season.
Blue ice field exploration
An ice field extends in a characteristic elongated pattern in a mountainous region with ridges and peaks visible above the buried terrain. An ice field is not extensive enough to form the characteristic dome of an ice cap.
CAC ‐ Circum‐Antarctic Current
Connects all the other oceans. Thus it plays a major role in the global transports of heat and fresh-water and the ocean-wide cycles of dissolved substances.
Carbon dioxide
A natural byproduct of life processes.
Continental shelf
Extended perimeter of each continent and associated coastal plain, and was part of the continent during the glacial periods, but is undersea during interglacial periods such as the current epoch by relatively shallow seas (known as shelf seas) and gulfs.
Convergent plate boundary
Characteristic of collision zones, where areas of continental and/or oceanic crust collide. These are zones of compression and crustal loss ("destructional"). Collision of India and Asia is an example.
Cryosphere
The portion of the hydrosphere and ground that is perennially frozen, generally at high latitudes and elevations.
Earth Systems
An emerging area of science of Earth as a complete, systematic entity. The study of an integrated set of chemical, biological, and physical systems that include the processes of a whole Earth system and of planetary change resulting from system operations; includes a desire for more quantitative understanding among components, rather than qualitative description.
El Nino
Climate is the consistent behavior of weather over time, but average weather conditions also include extremes that depart from normal. The El Nino Southern Oscillation in the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Ocean forces the greatest interannual variability of temperature and precipitation on a global scale. Usually occurs around end of December, but may come as early (or late) as spring and summer and persist throughout the year.
Equilibrium Line
The zone where accumulation gain balances ablation loss
Fractional melting
The mafic parent rock selectively melts producing two fractions. The first fraction is a melt whose composition is closer to the bottom of BRS than the original rock. This melt is intermediate in composition. The second fraction is the unmelted crystal residue with a composition more mafic (i.e. ultramafic)than the original rock. That is, its composition is higher in BRS than the original rock.
Glacial ‐ Interglacial global average temperature variation
Glacial isostasy
A state of equilibrium formed by the interplay between portions of the lithosphere and the asthenosphere; the crust depresses with weight and recovers with the melting of the ice or removal of the load in isostatic rebound
Glacial Till
Glacial drift is the general term for both unsorted and sorted glacial deposits. Direct ice deposits are unstratified and unsorted and are known as till.
Greenhouse Effect
The process whereby radiatively active gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and CFCs) absorb insolation and radiate the energy at longer wavelengths, which are retained, delaying the loss of infrared wavelengths to space. Thus, the lower troposphere is warmed through the radiation of infrared wavelengths. The approximate similarity between this process and that of a greenhouse explains the name.
Grounding Line
Boundary between the floating ice shelf and the grounded (resting on bedrock) ice that feeds it.
Holocene
Current epoch. Began approximately 11,700 years ago. Interglacial. Human civilization dates entirely within the Holocene.
Ice shelf
Thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface.
Ice Streams
Region of an ice sheet that moves significantly faster than the surrounding ice. Ice streams are a type of glacier. Account for most of ice leaving ice sheet.
Insolation
Incoming solar radiation. Proportion of radiation reflected or absorbed depends on the object's reflectivity or albedo, respectively.
International Polar Year
Collaborative, international effort researching the polar regions. Karl Weyprecht, an Austro-Hungarian naval officer, motivated the endeavor, but died before it first occurred in 1882-1883. Fifty years later (1932-1933) a second IPY occurred. The International Geophysical Year was inspired by the IPY and occurred 75 years after the first IPY (1957-58).
Keeling Curve
Graph showing the variation in concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide since 1958. It is based on continuous measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii under the supervision of Charles David Keeling. Keeling's measurements showed the first significant evidence of rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Many scientists credit Keeling's graph with first bringing the world's attention to the effects that human activity were having on the Earth's atmosphere and climate.
Lake Vostok
argest of more than 140 subglacial lakes found under the surface of Antarctica. It is located beneath Russia's Vostok Station, 4,000 meters (13,000 ft) under the surface of the central Antarctic ice sheet. It is 250 km long by 50 km wide at its widest point, thus similar in size to Lake Ontario, and is divided into two deep basins by a ridge. Fresh water.
LGM ‐ Last Glacial Maximum
Time of maximum extent of the ice sheets during the last glaciation (the Würm or Wisconsin glaciation), approximately 20,000 years ago. This extreme persisted for several thousand years. At this time, ice sheets covered the whole of Iceland and all but the southern extremity of the British Isles. Northern Europe was largely covered, the southern boundary passing through Germany and Poland, but not quite joined to the British ice sheet. In North America, the ice covered essentially all of Canada and extended roughly to the Missouri and Ohio Rivers, and eastward to New York City. A person could theoretically walk from North America to Europe across the frozen Atlantic ice sheet.
Limiting nutrient
Nutrient in short supply relative to the others will be exhausted first and will thus limit cellular growth. The other ingredients may play various roles such as exhibiting toxicity or promoting cellular activities, but there will not be an acute shortage to restrict growth as in the case of the limiting nutrient becoming exhausted.
Lithosphere
Earth's crust, and that portion of the uppermost mantle directly below the crust, that extends down 70 kilometers (45 miles).
Obliquity
inclination angle of a planet's rotational axis in relation to its orbital plane
Ozone
Trioxygen (O3) is a triatomic molecule, consisting of three oxygen atoms. Ground-level ozone is an air pollutant with harmful effects on the respiratory systems of animals. The ozone layer in the upper atmosphere filters potentially damaging ultraviolet light from reaching the Earth's surface.
Pancake ice
Form of ice that consists of round pieces of ice with diameters ranging from a few inches to many feet in diameter, depending on the local conditions that affect ice formation.
Phytoplankton
Autotrophic component of the plankton community. Responsible for much of the oxygen present in the Earth's atmosphere – half of the total amount produced by all plant life.
Principle of Cross‐Cutting relationships
An igneous intrusion is always younger than the rock it cuts across.
Sedimentary rocks
One of the three main rock types (the others being igneous and metamorphic rock). Sedimentary rock is formed by deposition and consolidation of mineral and organic material and from precipitation of minerals from solution. The processes that form sedimentary rock occur at the surface of the Earth and within bodies of water. Rock formed from sediments covers 75-80% of the Earth's land area, and includes common types such as limestone, chalk, dolostone, sandstone, conglomerate, some types of breccia, and shale.
Snow Line
Point above which snow and ice cover the ground throughout the year. The actual snow line may seasonally be significantly lower.
Stratigraphy
An analysis of the sequence, spacing, and spatial distribution of rock data.
Superposition
Underground layers closer to the surface were deposited more recently
The carbon cycle
Biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth.
Victoria Land Basin
Sedimentary land basin in the Ross Sea. Includes a rift-depression 15 to 25 kilometers wide that parallels the Transantarctic Mountains and contains up to 12 kilometers of possible Paleozoic to Holocene age sedimentary rocks.
Wilkins Ice Shelf
The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a rectangular ice shelf about 80 nautical miles long and 60 nautical miles wide (150 km by 110 km; 90 mi by 70 mi). This feature occupies the central part of Wilkins Sound. On March 25, 2008 a 405 km² (160 sq mi) chunk of the Wilkins ice shelf disintegrated, putting an even larger portion of the glacial ice shelf at risk. Will not significantly increase sea level because it is not connected to inland glaciers like the Larsen B Ice Shelf.
Younger Dryas
The Younger Dryas saw a rapid return to glacial conditions in the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere between 12,900–11,500 years before present (BP)[5] in sharp contrast to the warming of the preceding interstadial deglaciation.
A glacier is an open system, with inputs of snow and outputs of ice, meltwater, and water vapor. In the accumulation zone at its upper end, snowfall and other moisture feed a glacier. This area ends at the firn line, indicating where the winter snow and ice accumulation survived the summer melting season.
Blue ice field exploration
An ice field extends in a characteristic elongated pattern in a mountainous region with ridges and peaks visible above the buried terrain. An ice field is not extensive enough to form the characteristic dome of an ice cap.
CAC ‐ Circum‐Antarctic Current
Connects all the other oceans. Thus it plays a major role in the global transports of heat and fresh-water and the ocean-wide cycles of dissolved substances.
Carbon dioxide
A natural byproduct of life processes.
Continental shelf
Extended perimeter of each continent and associated coastal plain, and was part of the continent during the glacial periods, but is undersea during interglacial periods such as the current epoch by relatively shallow seas (known as shelf seas) and gulfs.
Convergent plate boundary
Characteristic of collision zones, where areas of continental and/or oceanic crust collide. These are zones of compression and crustal loss ("destructional"). Collision of India and Asia is an example.
Cryosphere
The portion of the hydrosphere and ground that is perennially frozen, generally at high latitudes and elevations.
Earth Systems
An emerging area of science of Earth as a complete, systematic entity. The study of an integrated set of chemical, biological, and physical systems that include the processes of a whole Earth system and of planetary change resulting from system operations; includes a desire for more quantitative understanding among components, rather than qualitative description.
El Nino
Climate is the consistent behavior of weather over time, but average weather conditions also include extremes that depart from normal. The El Nino Southern Oscillation in the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Ocean forces the greatest interannual variability of temperature and precipitation on a global scale. Usually occurs around end of December, but may come as early (or late) as spring and summer and persist throughout the year.
Equilibrium Line
The zone where accumulation gain balances ablation loss
Fractional melting
The mafic parent rock selectively melts producing two fractions. The first fraction is a melt whose composition is closer to the bottom of BRS than the original rock. This melt is intermediate in composition. The second fraction is the unmelted crystal residue with a composition more mafic (i.e. ultramafic)than the original rock. That is, its composition is higher in BRS than the original rock.
Glacial ‐ Interglacial global average temperature variation
Glacial isostasy
A state of equilibrium formed by the interplay between portions of the lithosphere and the asthenosphere; the crust depresses with weight and recovers with the melting of the ice or removal of the load in isostatic rebound
Glacial Till
Glacial drift is the general term for both unsorted and sorted glacial deposits. Direct ice deposits are unstratified and unsorted and are known as till.
Greenhouse Effect
The process whereby radiatively active gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and CFCs) absorb insolation and radiate the energy at longer wavelengths, which are retained, delaying the loss of infrared wavelengths to space. Thus, the lower troposphere is warmed through the radiation of infrared wavelengths. The approximate similarity between this process and that of a greenhouse explains the name.
Grounding Line
Boundary between the floating ice shelf and the grounded (resting on bedrock) ice that feeds it.
Holocene
Current epoch. Began approximately 11,700 years ago. Interglacial. Human civilization dates entirely within the Holocene.
Ice shelf
Thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface.
Ice Streams
Region of an ice sheet that moves significantly faster than the surrounding ice. Ice streams are a type of glacier. Account for most of ice leaving ice sheet.
Insolation
Incoming solar radiation. Proportion of radiation reflected or absorbed depends on the object's reflectivity or albedo, respectively.
International Polar Year
Collaborative, international effort researching the polar regions. Karl Weyprecht, an Austro-Hungarian naval officer, motivated the endeavor, but died before it first occurred in 1882-1883. Fifty years later (1932-1933) a second IPY occurred. The International Geophysical Year was inspired by the IPY and occurred 75 years after the first IPY (1957-58).
Keeling Curve
Graph showing the variation in concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide since 1958. It is based on continuous measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii under the supervision of Charles David Keeling. Keeling's measurements showed the first significant evidence of rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Many scientists credit Keeling's graph with first bringing the world's attention to the effects that human activity were having on the Earth's atmosphere and climate.
Lake Vostok
argest of more than 140 subglacial lakes found under the surface of Antarctica. It is located beneath Russia's Vostok Station, 4,000 meters (13,000 ft) under the surface of the central Antarctic ice sheet. It is 250 km long by 50 km wide at its widest point, thus similar in size to Lake Ontario, and is divided into two deep basins by a ridge. Fresh water.
LGM ‐ Last Glacial Maximum
Time of maximum extent of the ice sheets during the last glaciation (the Würm or Wisconsin glaciation), approximately 20,000 years ago. This extreme persisted for several thousand years. At this time, ice sheets covered the whole of Iceland and all but the southern extremity of the British Isles. Northern Europe was largely covered, the southern boundary passing through Germany and Poland, but not quite joined to the British ice sheet. In North America, the ice covered essentially all of Canada and extended roughly to the Missouri and Ohio Rivers, and eastward to New York City. A person could theoretically walk from North America to Europe across the frozen Atlantic ice sheet.
Limiting nutrient
Nutrient in short supply relative to the others will be exhausted first and will thus limit cellular growth. The other ingredients may play various roles such as exhibiting toxicity or promoting cellular activities, but there will not be an acute shortage to restrict growth as in the case of the limiting nutrient becoming exhausted.
Lithosphere
Earth's crust, and that portion of the uppermost mantle directly below the crust, that extends down 70 kilometers (45 miles).
Obliquity
inclination angle of a planet's rotational axis in relation to its orbital plane
Ozone
Trioxygen (O3) is a triatomic molecule, consisting of three oxygen atoms. Ground-level ozone is an air pollutant with harmful effects on the respiratory systems of animals. The ozone layer in the upper atmosphere filters potentially damaging ultraviolet light from reaching the Earth's surface.
Pancake ice
Form of ice that consists of round pieces of ice with diameters ranging from a few inches to many feet in diameter, depending on the local conditions that affect ice formation.
Phytoplankton
Autotrophic component of the plankton community. Responsible for much of the oxygen present in the Earth's atmosphere – half of the total amount produced by all plant life.
Principle of Cross‐Cutting relationships
An igneous intrusion is always younger than the rock it cuts across.
Sedimentary rocks
One of the three main rock types (the others being igneous and metamorphic rock). Sedimentary rock is formed by deposition and consolidation of mineral and organic material and from precipitation of minerals from solution. The processes that form sedimentary rock occur at the surface of the Earth and within bodies of water. Rock formed from sediments covers 75-80% of the Earth's land area, and includes common types such as limestone, chalk, dolostone, sandstone, conglomerate, some types of breccia, and shale.
Snow Line
Point above which snow and ice cover the ground throughout the year. The actual snow line may seasonally be significantly lower.
Stratigraphy
An analysis of the sequence, spacing, and spatial distribution of rock data.
Superposition
Underground layers closer to the surface were deposited more recently
The carbon cycle
Biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth.
The cycle is usually thought of as four major reservoirs of carbon interconnected by pathways of exchange. These reservoirs are:
- The atmosphere.
- The terrestrial biosphere, which is usually defined to include fresh water systems and non-living organic material, such as soil carbon.
- The oceans, including dissolved inorganic carbon and living and non-living marine biota,
- The sediments including fossil fuels.
The annual movements of carbon, the carbon exchanges between reservoirs, occur because of various chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes. The ocean contains the largest active pool of carbon near the surface of the Earth, but the deep ocean part of this pool does not rapidly exchange with the atmosphere.
Thermohaline Ocean Circulation
Victoria Land Basin
Sedimentary land basin in the Ross Sea. Includes a rift-depression 15 to 25 kilometers wide that parallels the Transantarctic Mountains and contains up to 12 kilometers of possible Paleozoic to Holocene age sedimentary rocks.
Wilkins Ice Shelf
The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a rectangular ice shelf about 80 nautical miles long and 60 nautical miles wide (150 km by 110 km; 90 mi by 70 mi). This feature occupies the central part of Wilkins Sound. On March 25, 2008 a 405 km² (160 sq mi) chunk of the Wilkins ice shelf disintegrated, putting an even larger portion of the glacial ice shelf at risk. Will not significantly increase sea level because it is not connected to inland glaciers like the Larsen B Ice Shelf.
Younger Dryas
The Younger Dryas saw a rapid return to glacial conditions in the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere between 12,900–11,500 years before present (BP)[5] in sharp contrast to the warming of the preceding interstadial deglaciation.
I AM ALIVE
WHO are WHO are WHO ARE WE ?
WHAT are WHAT are WHAT ARE WE ?
WHERE are WHERE are WHERE ARE WE ?
blissful bathing behind sun-soaked eyelids my own blood spins and swirls 8 in bed with 8 stacked upon 8 to a pleasant hot water hum and T. you gave me this blood you gave this blood JUSTICE i know not curves of yr face i see Z. and warmth swells feel for future glistening beckoning to be made once thought opportunity out of reach but now it tastes so sweet oh what to do and where to go? who will help? egyptian dreams speaking with hands scrawled upon parchment ("Aunt Bev") and Bird so fragile. disintegrating? alive. Hobo panther so soft and blue calm content. far off dreams of Madame Urbain and A NEW LEAGUE. poor harold, you'll wake up soon !
WHAT are WHAT are WHAT ARE WE ?
WHERE are WHERE are WHERE ARE WE ?
blissful bathing behind sun-soaked eyelids my own blood spins and swirls 8 in bed with 8 stacked upon 8 to a pleasant hot water hum and T. you gave me this blood you gave this blood JUSTICE i know not curves of yr face i see Z. and warmth swells feel for future glistening beckoning to be made once thought opportunity out of reach but now it tastes so sweet oh what to do and where to go? who will help? egyptian dreams speaking with hands scrawled upon parchment ("Aunt Bev") and Bird so fragile. disintegrating? alive. Hobo panther so soft and blue calm content. far off dreams of Madame Urbain and A NEW LEAGUE. poor harold, you'll wake up soon !
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