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The mysterious forest rings of northern Ontario
CBC ^ | 21 May 2008 | Elle Andra-Warner

Posted on 05/23/2008 2:18:46 PM PDT by BGHater

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1 posted on 05/23/2008 2:18:47 PM PDT by BGHater
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Neat. The fact that they’re circles would imply some sort field. After all, everyone knows aliens prefer triangles.


2 posted on 05/23/2008 2:25:31 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: TheWasteLand

Meteor impact sites that have since been filled in.


3 posted on 05/23/2008 2:32:19 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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To: BGHater

Mycelium? Fairy Rings? Have they had reports of dancing elves?


4 posted on 05/23/2008 2:38:16 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

Interesting. But why so many concentrated in Northern Ontario?


5 posted on 05/23/2008 2:41:08 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: BGHater

The Lord forgot to put a coaster when He set His drinking glass down. ;-)


6 posted on 05/23/2008 2:44:25 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: BGHater

“One Ring to Rule Them All”


7 posted on 05/23/2008 2:53:31 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: TheWasteLand

O for Ontario....
susie


8 posted on 05/23/2008 2:58:39 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: BGHater

The floor of the North Sea is pockmarked with these. Methane hydrates that sublime cause the overburden to bulge up. the bulge on a flat seabed takes the form of a perfect circle. Ultimately, as enough frozen methane sublimes the gas burst the overburden and a huge cloud of bubbles heat to the surface.


9 posted on 05/23/2008 2:59:07 PM PDT by fso301
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To: BGHater

bkmark for later. thanks.


10 posted on 05/23/2008 2:59:26 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: TheWasteLand

Some infalling large meteors are thought to break up into many fragments, resulting in clusters of craters over an area. Ontario has been subject to glaciation, but the subsurface structure should remain. A test would be the presence of ceosite, or shocked rock. Some drilling and rock sampling would settle the issue.


11 posted on 05/23/2008 3:00:50 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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I bet it’s caused by fungi. The mycelium (roots) of some fungi grow bigger and bigger for hundreds or thousands of years and have a symbiotic relationship with the roots of some plants. That relationship promotes some plants which may out compete others.


12 posted on 05/23/2008 3:44:09 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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Why are the rings only in metric?

This is very strange indeed.


13 posted on 05/23/2008 3:45:07 PM PDT by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

You beat me to that by a bit. Good job.


14 posted on 05/23/2008 3:46:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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To: BGHater

If one were to view a beer can from the sky, one would find that it too looks circular (ring).

It’s the Canadian beer...it leaves a much larger footprint.


15 posted on 05/23/2008 4:38:39 PM PDT by Gator113 (Obama is a member of the Far Wright Conspiracy.......)
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BTW...that was an interesting post. Thanks for posting it.


16 posted on 05/23/2008 4:41:02 PM PDT by Gator113 (Obama is a member of the Far Wright Conspiracy.......)
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Earth = battery.

MAkes sense to me, geolgists use it IP to search for sulfies group minerials (copper, for example)

I worked on an IP crew for one summer - gave me time to think & went back to college.

induced polarization

1. n. [Geophysics] ID: 876

An electromagnetic method that uses electrodes with time-varying currents and voltages to map the variation of electrical permittivity (dielectric constant) in the Earth at low frequencies. Induced polarization is observed when a steady current through two electrodes in the Earth is shut off: the voltage does not return to zero instantaneously, but rather decays slowly, indicating that charge has been stored in the rocks. This charge, which accumulates mainly at interfaces between clay minerals, is responsible for the IP effect. This effect can be measured in either the time domain by observing the rate of decay of voltage or in the frequency domain by measuring phase shifts between sinusoidal currents and voltages. It is often used in exploration for minerals and can sometimes distinguish different types of mineralization. The IP method can probe to subsurface depths of thousands of meters


17 posted on 05/23/2008 8:26:45 PM PDT by ASOC (Training Storungen werden auf Papier notiert. Taktische Storungen werden im Stein geatzt. Gen Rommel)
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I read somewhere that some may be made up of oil...


18 posted on 05/24/2008 7:38:02 AM PDT by Heartofsong83
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To: BGHater; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...

Note: this topic is from MAy 23, 2008 -- Drew Carey's 50th birthday.

Thanks BGHater for posting this and never pinging me. [sobs]

The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith

 
Catastrophism
 
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19 posted on 10/08/2009 8:00:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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My first thought as I started to read the post was Carolina Bays. However, what is shown here is round, not eliptical. On the other hand, if Firestone et al. are right, that the boloid struck above Eastern Canada, perhaps these represent a direct rain down, or close in splatter traces. Does anyone have photos further West or Northwest on this phenomenon, possibly shading into a more eliptical, oriented configuration?


20 posted on 10/08/2009 10:17:11 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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