WHOI scientists find ancient asphalt domes off California coast (Maltenes?)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ^ | Apr 25, 2010 | Unknown

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The mind shudders........

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks decimon. A two-list ping topic. :') Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized asphalt domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist. About 35,000 years ago, a series of apparent undersea volcanoes deposited massive flows of petroleum 10 miles offshore. The deposits hardened into domes that were discovered recently... Thanks . Blast from the Past. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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It’s not your fault, it’s not my fault, it’s the asphalt...

[NYer]

Trulli of Alberobello, Italy

History of the Trulli

[colorado tanker]

Oil rigs off the Santa Barbara coast. One of the areas where Obama is stopping a Bush plan for expanded drilling.

[ColdWater]

Oil rigs off the Santa Barbara coast. One of the areas where Obama is stopping a Bush plan for expanded drilling.

Actually, CA has a moratorium on offshore drilling.

[colorado tanker]

Oil platforms off Santa Barbara, Calif., are a legacy from when drilling flourished off the state's coast. A Bush-era draft plan to allow new drilling off the coast has been shelved by the Obama administration

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29119940/

[ColdWater]

That’s not in the article. That is a photo caption and not entirely accurate nor consistent with the facts in the story. Thank you.

[ColdWater]

Actually, CA has a moratorium on offshore drilling.

[colorado tanker]

Actually, the article specifically says tracts off the coast of California were included in the proposal.

The preliminary plan drawn up by the Bush administration would have authorized 31 energy exploration lease sales between 2010 and 2015 for tracts along the East Coast and off the coasts of Alaska and California.

[ColdWater]

exploration leases

[colorado tanker]

What point do you think you are trying to make??? Of course exploration precedes drilling, that's why Obama killed it.

The administration officially scrapped a plan by Bush's administration that would have OK'd leases off the northeastern Atlantic coast and in the Pacific waters off California, Oregon and Washington, where drilling has been banned for decades.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/6937779.html

Do you need more sources???

[ColdWater]

What point do you think you are trying to make???

Three times a charm?

Actually, CA has a moratorium on offshore drilling.

[ColdWater]

Here is the exact situation in Santa Barbara (emphasis mine):

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August 27, 2008|Maria L. La Ganga, Times Staff Writer A divided Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday in support of offshore drilling, after an impassioned daylong hearing in which this year's record gas prices trumped the memory of a disastrous oil spill.

By a 3-2 vote that broke along geographic lines, supervisors agreed to send a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urging him to change state policy and "allow expanded oil exploration and extraction" off the county's coast.

[colorado tanker]

I don't understand why you continue to insist on a pointless debate. I'll try to explain this to you one last time. You are insisting on a level of detail that adds nothing to the thread.

The situation is complicated somewhat by past presidential and congressional moratoria as well as environmental laws, but the federal government owns the continental shelf beyond three miles, the so-called outer continental shelf. That isn't very "outer" because three miles isn't very far offshore. There had been a federal moratorium for decades on drilling the West Coast OCS, which expired during the Bush Administration. Bush was going ahead with a leasing program, the first step of which was opening exploration. That is what Obama has now blocked. Everyone knew this program was intended to result in drilling, which is why conservatives chanted "drill baby, drill" and liberals opposed the plan.

States have jurisdiction over the three miles adjacent to the coast. California has closed that to further drilling, although some groups and the Governor have thrown around proposals that might allow some. That's what your post addressed. California, however, does not own the OCS and its ban does not extend there.

Obama reinstated the federal moratorium although it could once again be lifted because the California moratorium, or more accurately prohibition, does not extend to the federal offshore lease areas. Now, will you end this pointless exercise??

[Melian]

“Bush’s phalt.”

Oh, my! You are GOOD!