Thursday, February 4, 2010

Hurricane Fault Arcuate feature at AZ border similar to Aleutian Spiral




This is subject to pulses approximately each 200 k.years, as is seen in the above photo, and at the Kolob Mesa just north of Virgin Town.

Adjacent to dynamic features is a cell I have named a REACTIONARY CELL, RC. This is shown below for the zone north of the western Aleutians, which is a CW-ROTATING cell, with a diameter of 300 km.

The direction can be determined by use of GPS data, knowing that the entire Aleutian chain is moving toward the SW, and that the crust is being dragged along with the general rotation (on the north side). A similar small-scale feature is shown below in a digital photo, of Hf near the AZ border, with the diameter on the order of 1 km:

SPIRAL GEOMETRY CALCULATIONS
The case of the Hurricane Fault at the AZ border is valuable for determining the rate of movement and cell boundaries. This is the third (or possibly fourth) of concentric spirals about the Grass Valley vulcanism- which triggered the rotations about Hf, and which left an arcuate path for the Virgin River.
First let’s review the evidence, to determine which rotating cells are pertinent to the study of this DISCOVERY CASE. There are several concentric circles, or circular traces, fitting within the feature extending from the WA fault in Washington City to Virgin Town. This will not include the Fort Pierce Wash trace which has vulcanism on its southern border in AZ- which proceeds to the intersection with the Virgin River at Santa Clara (which has a triple junction with the SC River on the north side of the Virgin).
These Coriolis cells, rotating about Hf, proceed Clockwise, CW, as determined by the direction of lateral thrusting and cat steps in slickensides. This is for cooling cells which shrink and sink with a CW motion- the opposite of magma rising, which rotates CCW for uplifting features. This was solved for the geometry noticed in the Laverkin Sink and graben- where occur slickensides at an angle indicating that the Colorado Plateau, CP, is moving CCW (while presenting rising). The rate of moving there as evidenced by the trigonometry of the slickensides resulted in the lateral movement being about 1/3rd of the vertical movement- yielding about 1.5 mm/year lateral movement for 5 mm/year vertical faulting. Overall, this displacement has been calculated to be about .2 mm/year, but there is an occasional surge of displacement (indicated by terraces) of faster movement.
NOTICE IN THE ABOVE PHOTO, THAT GYPSUM, FROM THE MESOZOIC, HAS BEEN TRANSPORTED UPHILL INTO THE PALEOZOIC rubble about a kilometer. THIS ALLOWS THE RATE OF MOVEMENT TO BE CALCULATED (ABOUT 1 MM/YEAR)
The circumference of this local spiral is about 4 km, as indicated by Google Earth’s horizontal measurements, This calculates that the diameter is about 1.3 km, and for a Grass Valley age of about 1 m.y. There is a rotational velocity of 1 mm/year movement along the E-W canyon wall. This is predicated upon the observed strand OF FRACTURES along the minor canyon of about 1 km. This circular reactionary movement has now reached uphill about a similar distance- forming a slight canyon (with a noticeable spur or splay) which becomes less obvious up the hill above Hf.\
This is all presented in a DIAGRAM- SHOWING THE IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS. NOTICE THAT THE MANTLE MAY BE ROTATING THE BASE OF THE CRUST TO THE EAST (yielding the tilt of the surface beds): Below is another view of the encircling fracture system, actuated by the moving and cooling GRASS VALLEY VULCANISM;
THE CLOSEST CANYON TO THE TOWN OF HURRICANE AND ITS THREE VOLCANIC CRATERS IS LOCATED JUST EAST OF THE HURRICANE AIRPORT. THIS CANYON DOESN'T ALLOW ACCESS TO CP, AS IT IS TOO STEEP TO CLIMB. IT DOES SHOW SIGNIFICANT FRACTURES AND FAULTING, AND WILL BE ANALYZED BELOW:

PEAR-SHAPED EARTH: Bulges due to the WOBBLE OF THE EARTH-MOON SYSTEM as it rotates about the Center of Mass annually on the ECLIPTIC

ABOVE IS A SPECULATIVE SOUTH PACIFIC VIEW. WE WILL DETERMINE WHETHER ANY OF THESE PROJECTINS ARE TRUE, BY COMPARISON WITH FOSSIL TRACES FROM OTHER REGIONS.
THE EARTH-LUNAR WOBBLE ABOUT THE ECLIPTIC IS SHOWN ABOVE, WITH THE PEAR-SHAPED EARTH PRESENTED BELOW:

ABOVE IS A DIAGRAM OF THE EARTH, SHOWING HOW A SLIGHT BULGE EXISTS, IN ADDITION TO THE GREAT EQUATORIAL BULGE. WE WILL TRY TO FIND WHAT CREATES THIS CIRCUM-EQUATOR FEATURE: FROM THE MOON ATTRACTION DUE TO ITS 5.1 DEGREE ANGLE TO THE ECLIPTIC, OR TO THE SUN, OR A COMBINATION OF BOTH? BELOW SHOWS HOW IT IS INVOLVED IN THE FORMATION OF ISLANDS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC:

PEAR-SHAPED EARTH: Bulges due to the WOBBLE OF THE EARTH-MOON SYSTEM as it rotates about the Center of Mass annually on the ECLIPTIC
It is my experience that the CRUST OF THE EARTH is dominated by Coriolis rotations- creating most of the STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY ANOMALIES. There is another influence by the MANTLE, WHICH ROTATES SLIGHTLY FASTER THAN THE CRUST, and which causes the crust to rotate vertically, along mostly horizontally-oriented circular cells-near the coastlines (where it is relatively unconstrained by the shallow oceanic thin crust). There are other factors which I have isolated:
1. Shear developed at the 40N and 40S latitudes, where the crust at higher latitudes moves relatively slower compared to the tidal shove to the west for BULGES (such as mountain ranges and other protrusions);
2. Compression, due to shrinking with time of the earth’s sphere, which probably creates (by lateral squeezing) the mountain ranges parallel to bodies of water;
3. Pulsing of the magnetic field, which creates cycles of increased activity every 200 k.years or so; and,
4. Mechanical shock from asteroids or meteors, which creates craters and antipodal bulges on opposing sides of the earth.
Should the comments on the Coriolis influence be correct, the projections can be checked independently, via the presentation of the earth’s hemisphere by photos from space satellites. Weather cells are conceded to be influenced only by Coriolis rotation and the friction with the earth’ surface- changing daily because of SOLAR HEATING, DIFFERENTIAL VELOCITIES BETWEEN LATITUDE LINES, AND PROTRUSIONS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE BY HILLS OR ISLANDS, MOUNTAINS, AND GLACIERS.
SIMILARLY TO THE ATMOSPHERE BEING DRAGGED BY THE EARTH’S SURFACE, THE CRUST IS BEING DRAGGED BY THE UNDERLYING MANTLE.
Should this analogy be sufficient, one has only to observe the positioning and movement of weather cells to find the concomitant influence on island chains, seamounts, and sea bottom. For example, the South Pacific islands are a relatively elevated area of crust which create a diversion of weather around them. This is seen as a circular development of high clouds, somewhat independent of the weather-making low clouds. High clouds can be seen to derive from the north Pacific, to cross the Equator, and to ride over the weather-making clouds in the South Pacific. Coriolis force has not impeded the clouds from crossing the Equator- as is the case for weather cells and clouds (which cannot cross, because of the fastest velocity barrier existing there) .
It is my tentative conclusion that the Mantle, plumes, hotspots, and the Core have little else to do with the Crustal movements, except possibly for the metal-influencing cycles of pulsing and the magnetic cycling noticed each 200 k.years of so. If one can determine the dominant Coriolis Effect’s incipience of weather cells, then one can find that this will be reflected in the rotation and positioning of islands and other masses in the Pacific Ocean.
The first clue is the over-riding of the high clouds, which evidently are determined by the return circulation of the atmosphere to renew the lower rotations (weather clouds). This may be determined by the shape of the PEAR-SHAPED EARTH, AS IT IS CREATED BY THE INFLUENCE OF THE MON, SUN, TIDES, AND THEIR SEASONAL CHANGES.
How is it that the Mantle is not involved in Crustal manifestations, other than by pushing the base of the crust to the east? I have proved this to myself, by viewing the simplest features in ocean bottoms, where there is a thin crust (5 km or so). For these cases, there is the Pacific Hourglass, which is a feature of seamounts, islands, and craters, that forms a symmetrical exhibit over thousand of kilometers. When one dissects this hourglass, it is found that it is composed of the boundaries of circular arrangement of vents and islands, which shear and heat from vulcanism due to rotating crust. See the following photo of the northern Pacific:

VIEWING THE HOURGLASS IN MORE DETAIL: Below is a view of a transitory hourglass from a weather satellite, indicating that Coriolis affects weather similarly to the earth's CRUST click on the center button, if there is no picture!
AND INDEED, THE FEATURE HAS NO INDICATION OF PLATES, MANTLE PLUMES, OR ANYTHING BUT ROTATION OF CORIOLIS CELLS, UNTIL REACHING THE EQUATOR.


THIS MAY BE ANALYZED SEVERAL WAYS- ONE: COMPARE THE ZONE TO WEATHER CELLS WHICH ARE IN THREE 30 DEGREE BANDS:
TWO: ANOTHER ANALYSIS INVOLVES LOOKING AT THE DETAILS OF THE VARIOUS CELLS- NOTICING THAT THERE IS NO CORIOLIS EFFECT AT THE EQUATOR (LATITUDINAL VELOCITY REFERENCED TO SPACE IS MAXIMUM THERE):

BELOW IS THE HOURGLASS PORTRAYED BY LOW ALTITUDE CLOUDS, WHICH IS DETERMINED BY CORIOLIS FORCES IN THE ATMOSPHERE. ALSO THERE IS A HINT OF A SOLUTION TO THE ALMOST-LINEAR FEATURE CROSSING THE EQUATOR- THAT THE SUN'S HEATING IS A "USUAL SUSPECT".
Summer Heating: Part of the Solution of the Reason for the Seamount chain along the Tropic of Capricorn
There occur several obvious sets of fissures or seafloor features which trace along the South Atlantic Basin. These remain a puzzle, since they cross the Equator before arriving off the coast of South America. However, the above Photo from Space, using satellite images, indicates that clouds form in patterns prompted by SOLAR HEATING. Obviously, this changes hourly throughout the day, but there is a caveat to all this: the ocean basin is almost a closed system, and this constrains the movement of clouds (and ocean water and earth crust, for that matter). Further, the spinning earth forces mass in both hemispheres to move to the east, and that is constrained by the coastlines of the Americas.
Most locations of the earth experience two dominant wind patterns. In my dwellings, there is a north wind in the winter (irritatingly blasting, for noticeable cycles), and a SW wind in the summer and most of the rest of the year. This also occurs in movements of the Crust for the area: the trough along the great I-15 fault moves southward until arriving at the divergent zone at the Hurricane Fault. After that the winds proceed along the two divergent low areas. (the pertinent rule for EARTH SCIENTISTS IS: FOR EVERY SADDLE THERE’S A FAULT). In the summer, the winds follow the movement along the Virgin River- which is from the SW, the same direction as the Virgin rotation to the NE and finally Eastward.

THIS IS SHOWN FOR THE HURRICANE AREA, INCLUDING THE SOUTHERLY MOVING CP AT THE HURRICANE FAULT, AND FOR THE CCW-ROTATING (FROM THE SW) FAULT ALONG THE VIRGIN RIVER:
When I recalled all of my other locations, where I lived significantly enough to memorize the wind patterns, they had two patterns also. Houston had the SE winds, alternating with the BLUE NORTHERS, and this is the pattern for the crustal rotations. The CW rotation of the Gulf Coast and the Northwest to SE patterns of the circular river valleys.
BELOW IS A PHOTO OF THE GULF COAST, INCOMPLETE FOR NOW, BUT WHICH SHOWS THE FEATURES EASILY SEEN FROM GOOGLE EARTH:
BELOW IS AN EARTH VIEW FROM A SPACE SATELLITE. NOTICE THAT EL NINO IS NOW ABSENT (FEBRUARY), BUT THAT OTHER HIGH CLOUDS FROM NOON-TIME HEATING ARE CROSSING THE EQUATOR: OTHER FEATURES ARE SEEN FROM THE SPACE LOCATION:
1. WEATHER CLOUDS ARE EASILY TRANSITED BY HIGH CLOUDS.
2. THERE IS A DISCONTINUITY AT THE 40S LATITUDE;
3. THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS ARE ISOLATED FROM THE ENCIRCLING HIGH CLOUDS (PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY REPRESENT A HILL WHICH CAN BE BY-PASSED); AND.
4.THE WEST INDIES HAVE THEIR OWN CIRCULATIONS, BECAUSE OF THE HIGH TERRAIN- WHICH IS PROBABLY FORMED BY THE BULGES DEVELOPED BY CELL CONFLICTS CREATING THE VULCANISM TO THE EAST.



ABOVE IS PHOTO OF AFRICA, WHICH IS ANTI-PODAL TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS (POSSIBLY DUE TO THE SYMMETRY OF THE PEAR-SHAPE), WHICH HAS GREEN PINS OUTLINING A CIRCULAR FEATURE SOME DISTANCE WEST OF THE NILE AND RIFT ZONE:
BELOW IS A GOGGLE EARTH PHOTO OF THE AFRICA RIFT ZONE, WHICH WILL BE ANALYZED FOR ITS INVOLVEMENT AT THE EDGE OF THE PEAR-SHAPE OF THE EARTH (FROM SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS TO NORTH AFRICA, ANTI-PODAL TO EACH OTHER):
THE SAHARA BULGE IS SEEN BELOW, WITH A RADIUS OF 2200 KM:
ANTIPODAL TO THE SAHARA CENTER IS THE TONGA SHELF, A BIT WEST OF THE TONGA TRENCH: AND ANTIPODAL TO THE MARIANAS TRENCH IS A BIT EAST OF LAKE MALAWI, IN AFRICA, AT A DRAINAGE DIVIDE (A HIGH ELEVATION RELATIVELY TO EVERYTHING NEAR):

THE CRUST HAS BEEN REARRANGED AFTER THE CHICXULUB STRIKE. NOTICE THE SIGNIFICANT (45 DEGREES) OF THE INDIA 90E RIDGE TRACE AFTER THIS ANTIPODAL RISE IN THE CRUST. NOW WE HAVE THE INFORMATION NECESSARY TO SOLVE THE MARIANAS TRENCH PUZZLE: MY CONJECTURE IS THAT THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT WAS ASTRADDLE THE ANTIPODAL LOCATION OF CHICXULUB AS IT CREATED A BULGE UNDERNEATH. THE MOVEMENT OF INDIA TO THE NE WAS DIVERTED TO THE NORTH (ALONG THE 90E RIDGE, TO OFFSET THE WOBBLE AND PROCESSION OF THE EARTH:
THIS IS IN PREPARATION; SCROLL DOWN FOR ADDED INFORMATION:

Monday, February 1, 2010

GEOLOGICAL PUZZLE #5 SOLUTION: ABNORMAL PRESSURE (HIGH Gp> .5 psi/ft; UNDER-PRESSURE Gp< .4 psi/ft)

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Pressure and Stress in the Earth
All of you are familiar with the term pressure, since your faucet delivers water to you because of the pump pressure. Whenever the pump fails, or whenever too many neighbors use the water at the same time, you hear a gurgling noise from your faucet, and you phone the water company complaining of “Low Pressure”.
The use of the term stress may not be so recognizable, since it is used to connote bodily discomfort, how you feel in your auto on the freeway, or poor relations between family members. The usage of pressure and stress terms in the Earth’s Crust is defined below.

When you are lucky enough to drill a water well which has artesian flow, you have encountered a rare occurrence of fluid in rock- which is being squeezed by an Abnormal Force, causing water to flow out on the ground on its own impetus (no pumping necessary).
Both pressure and stress are defined by the force, F, exerted over an area a (either static or dynamic):
P, S = F/a,
usually in pounds per square inch, psi, but also in dynes/square centimeter, or Newtons/square meter- in universal physical units. Notice that force or weight, not mass, is the entity measured.
The convention for Petrophysics or Rock Science is to categorize pressure as being a fluid measurement and stress as being a solid force exerted over an area of rock. These should be distinguished in three categories:
a. The fluid pressure is only exerted in the porous part of the rock (usually no more than 30% of the total volume), and it is exerted omni-directionally- that is, in all directions, since fluid works outwardly from a source without regard to direction. For Static conditions at equilibrium, this pressure is determined by the height of a column of fluid, e.g. .433 psi./foot x height for pure water (unheated and containing no minerals- one atmosphere is 14.7 psi or 33.95 feet of pure water, hence when water is put under a complete vacuum it will rise about 34 feet: 14.7psi/.433psi per foot = 33.95);
b. The solid stress is directional, and it is exerted on the rock frame, but may transmit itself to the fluid phase also, when the fluid cannot escape or relieve the pressure. Consequently, fluids in the earth may exhibit a pressure greater than that from a static column of fluid, and this may be:
S = density, ρ (Greek Rho or r), x gravitational constant g x height, or S.G. (specific gravity of rock, which is that density relative to water, as a ratio) x pounds/volume of water x height, or

S = S.G.(rock) x .433 psi./foot(water) x height of column of rock.
In the literature, you may see stress symbolized by σ (Greek sigma or s).

This last relation shows the stress exerted along the rock frame, which is transmitted to the fluid for the abnormal case. This again is a static stress, and is not the maximum stress which may be exerted on rock (the static overburden on rock is about 1 psi/foot thickness in sedimentary rock). Rock may temporarily exhibit stresses which are unstable, which are very large- sufficient to cause failure (earthquakes, sliding, or other movement). S.G. of rock is determined by its density, ρ = 2.65 for quartz x S.G of.433 for water = 1.15; clays are lighter:

S.G.(rock) = ρ(rock)/ρ(water) = density of rock(physics cgs or cm, gram, second units-
grams/cubic centimeter)/1.0, approximately.

An abnormally large rock stress usually results locally in faulting or slumping and creep, but if unrelieved completely may be observed directionally along fractures (jointing as indicated by geological terminology). It is usually very difficult or impossible to determine the original magnitude or rate of relief of stress, but the orientation easily may be seen in fractures or fault movement. A clue to regional stress on rock is noted by parallel fracture lines in flat rock, and these may occur consistently over hundreds of kilometers.
c. The stable column of rock may contain two stress indications:
i. the pressure on the fluid phase
P = S.G. of water x .433psi/ft x height;
whereas the rock stress:
ii. S = S.G. of rock x .433 x height of rock, psi. S.G. of rock is at least 2.5 (gypsum is an exception, with 2.3) and normally S is approximately 1.0 psi/ft. At 10,000 feet, normal water head is 4330 psi, whereas it may be confined in rock with normal overburden at 10,000 psi. But
iii. S > greater than S(static rock) may accompany water at normal hydraulic head, whenever there is an active solid stress such as in volcanic areas (with water unconfined). The > symbol connotes greater than, with < meaning less than.
Hot Springs near Tofino, Vancouver Island, Canada exit on a peninsula near the Pacific Ocean

This all sounds strange, but consider your auto windshield- which may have free-flowing water rolling down its flat surface, while the solid glass is under extreme stress from its curved configuration.
Now consider these other rare occurrences:
1. A lens of sediment, surrounded by impermeable shale or clay, contains water with no possibility of quick escape. Whenever this lens is squeezed by the overburden or other force- either lateral or vertical- the water will carry the total stress of the confinement, which may be about 1 psi/foot (double the normal hydraulic head expected). This yields a blowout in an open or water-filled drill hole, whenever the lens is drilled (since the water now has an exit- right into the borehole). Oil Drillers are aware of this case, and it is overcome by putting high density materials in the drilling mud.
2. An isolated lens of rock may have sufficiently high temperature, such that Methane or CO2 gas is being generated faster than it can exit the lens. This is a fairly normal case in the deep earth, (greater than 5 kilometers depth), since there is high temperature everywhere. This is abnormally-high pressure, named Geopressure. Even in intrusive rock, such as granite, there is sufficient bacterial and organic activity to generate gas release. An interesting case occurring at this writing is located in East Java (near Surabaya), where a driller for oil encountered high pressured hot shale which has been flowing over several square miles for many months without stopping. The mud has flooded many houses.
3. The strangest case, which I have investigated- publishing a professional paper about it- is that of under-pressure. This occurs whenever there is CO2 baked out of deep limestone- by a hot intrusion- which remains in the gaseous phase, and when the gas percolating upward encounters fresh water not saturated in the carbon-dioxide. In this case, the gas quickly dissolves in the fresh shallow water and the volume of gas plus water shrinks- reducing the pressure when the permeability is abnormally low. For the Rocky Mountain area, this is not too rare, and the borehole fluid may be sucked into the permeable zones containing under-pressured fluid (P< .433psi/ft x depth). Pressure at 10,000 feet depth is less than 4330 psi, for this case.
4. Even in normally-pressured areas, where the water table is deep (as near the Grand Canyon), the pressure at the bottom of a drilled hole will be much less than .433 psi/foot x depth, since most of the borehole is filled with air or light weight fluid. In this case,
P= .433 psi/foot x height of water in the well bore, from water table to bottom hole. This is normal pressure with abnormal depth of water, since the water has drained out into the canyon. This will occur on mountains also where the water has percolated toward springs near the base of the terrain. In the western USA, it is common in the desert for the water table to occur many feet below the ground surface, where water pressure is normal wherever it is found. Only in abnormally hot or stressed rock will there be abnormal water pressure. The stress may derive from tectonics, from movement along faulting, and from generation of gas from organics abnormally heated.
Summing all of this, the pressure of the fluid in the Crust is unknown until it is measured. It can be estimated from gradients measured in nearby wells, or taken to be the normal pressure dependent upon the depth where it is found, but it is never known precisely until it is measured. The main reason for this uncertainty is that the Earth stress generating the pressure other than normal is unknown and cannot be determined in advance. This further illustrates the dilemma for Geologists, that since they never know with certainty what lies below their feet, they cannot know what the stresses will be there either.
How one can overcome this dilemma is to make regional maps and isolate the areas which are anomalous in some property which can be determined in advance- for example, gravity, temperature, acoustics, or spontaneous potentials (resulting in terrestrial, sometimes named Telluric, currents) in the earth. Anomalous geological, geothermal, or geochemical areas can be expected to exhibit anomalous stresses and pressures.

Location of Anomalous areas, by use of Geochemical Maps

I have mapped properties obtained from well logs and springs over regions as large as a county. The physical parameters which may be found from well log libraries and water chemistry may be plotted on a map- regardless of the uncertainty of depth of origin. These include;
1. Spring and wellbore temperatures;
2. Spring and well logged water salinity concentrations, TDS or total dissolved solids:
3. Formation Resistivities and Spontaneous Potentials (SP);
4. Radioactivity Magnitudes and individual elements’ gamma ray magnitudes;
5. Temperature Gradients, or temperature change from ground surface to bottom hole depths, Gt = Tbh –Tsurf/Depth, in hundreds of feet (This number will generally be 1.0 degrees/hundred feet, F change/hft or larger). This is better than using T alone, since temperature regularly increases with depth in the earth, and gradients can be compared from well to well. However, springs temperatures have no depth and must be used directly. The temperature of springs does vary with elevation in the mountains, and with latitude, so that one must compare T with others in a given latitude and elevation. A graph may be made at any latitude, showing the variation with elevation, and an extrapolation for the elevation of interest is simple. The normal temperature is near the annual mean temperature of the shallow subsurface (100 feet deep);
6. Concentration of any ion of interest must be normalized for evaporation or concentration caused by handling- the most trusted anion is Cl¯ , which does not interact with other ions or solids significantly (Cl ion has a half life of millions of years), and it is used in the following way:

K(normalized) = K+/Cl¯, using similar units for both ions; and,

7. Soundings of resistivity variation with depth, to locate Water Tables (lowest resistivity) or Rock with unusually high resistivity.

When a map is made on any one of the above parameters, any anomalous magnitude will stand out- showing that it is significantly different than the trend. This allows it to be inspected on its own merits, so that it may be confirmed as being anomalous. An example is that for SP, which varies with water salinity, water movement (Electro-kinetic Potential), and chemical oxidation-reduction (Redox) reactions. A map made on this parameter, countywide, will show sudden changes, which indicate either moving water, unusual chemical activity (such as reactions involving Uranium, Sulfur, or noxious gases), or strong brines (which are associated with oil, evaporites, or salt domes). Other means must be used to determine which of several possibilities are involved, but the anomaly is definitely located using this process.


Mammoth lake, CA has many indications of active movement of the Crust, including Steam, Water, Vulcanism, and Fissures
BELOW IS AN ANALYSIS I MADE WITH MY PATENTED SHALELOG PROCESS, WHERE THE TREND OF SODIUM AND POTASSIUM IONS IS MEASURED VERTICALLY FOR A GEOTHERMAL AREA (KIZILDERE, TURKEY, NEAR PAMUKKALE IN WEST TURKEY):

THIS ANALYSIS WILL CONTINUE WITH SPECIFIC CASES, WHERE I HAD PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT IN LOCATING OR DRILLING THE WELLS.