User talk:Charles01/Archive 20

Essex Faults

Charles01 - you posed a question on my talkpage re geological faults in Essex. I could answer glibly that Essex has no faults! But that wouldn't be true in any sense :-) everwyhere has its faults! The reason that none are (yet) listed is that none of the publications or maps which I have consulted has made any mention of any faults. Now some of those publications cover the whole of England/GB/UK and some are specific to certain areas and it's true that I have no detailed geological maps of Essex nor indeed for the most part of East Anglia and the East Midlands in my possession. Even if I did have those maps I suspect that they would show very few faults - and of those, even fewer would be named - and the lists only contain those that have been given names in any case . It's partly because that part of the country is one of the most stable, geologically and has some of Britain's youngest rocks - so not much has happened to fracture the rocks because they're not under pressure/tension so much as some other areas and, at least in those rocks which are at or near the surface, there has been little time (relatively speaking) to allow that to happen. Add to that the fact that there is a thickish cover of 'superficial deposits' over the bedrock and you've a recipe for an area which would appear to be pretty much fault-free. Does that make sense? cheers Geopersona (talk) 06:51, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. And yes, that makes sense. The correlation between the age of the rocks and the number of faults they've accumulated is not something I'd have thought of, though like many of the best explanations, once you've set it out for me, I feel as though I always knew it. And I'm sure there is a whole study to be written - may be written already - about the way that things without names - in this case presumed faults under a lot of clay - have some kind of a self perpetuating non-propensity to be investigated. I guess one answer to some of this could be to tell them about the hitherhto unexploited Essex oil fields. But before all that I need to get the kids to school. Thanks again for the clear and prompt answer. Regards Charles01 (talk) 07:23, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Spoils

Hi Charles01, thanks for your links. The pile of dirt(?) concerned is near the top of the little range of hills but I suppose they could have used traction engines. If you put this into Google Maps west monmouthshire golf club, Nantyglo, Wales, United Kingdom it should take you to the edge of the golf club carpark, go north-east over the roadway and you are on the (once perfectly conical) heap concerned. Look about and you will see how the sheep tracks are like contour lines for a mini Vesuvius. You will also see that someone has recently opened the top. Do you have a desktop app that can remote-analyse the soil content? Whatever the truth, you will know more of the subject than I. Best regards, Eddaido (talk) 10:15, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi again. Thought you might like to know of this pair of sites which I have enjoyed for years. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 11:07, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Nice link. Thank you. For a mad few seconds I had this idea you were sending me links to websites for spoil tip enthusiasts, but no. Which is good. As for Wales, I've not been there much, but for family reasons I go there a bit more now than I used to. Wales still seems pretty hard to get around, even by the standards of the UK's third world road (and rail) infrastructure, unless your destination is somewhere on or near the Bristol-Swansea axis. (And even then you have to pay through the nose a supplementary tax if you want to cross into the place using the bridge.) I'm learning about google maps and the associated pictures little by little. The variability of what you actually get to see is considerable - I got very stuck over Venice, but I guess it's hard to drive around there with a camera on the roof without getting targeted by all sorts of suspicious characters wanting money, unless you have the necessary contacts (and maybe ... um ... access to a discreet boat). Still, rural Wales shouldn't be such a challenge.

Hmmmm Regards Charles01 (talk) 14:34, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

You make me want to get to Streetview Venice and I will, in a minute. For a long time the street frontage where I live was just an orange blur caused by early morning sunrise straight into the camera - luck didn't hold though. Here's the other of the pair of sites, each has a daily article to accompany the two classes of old-car ads. Wonder if the dig in the top of the heap is because someone has, with their machinery, traced Dafydd Gam's lost torque (car pun alert). Putting that address into Google Maps still takes me directly to the heap's location and I can't understand why it might contain the things you suggest in the links when it is up high like that - see the linked (not quite accurate) reconstruction picture on the article. The creators probably didn't realise they were making greens and bunkers. First day of summer today - cool windless and overcast i.e. damp sea-fog just above ground level. Ah, well, tomorrow is another day. Eddaido (talk) 21:20, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

New to me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennial_generation Kittybrewster ☎ 11:21, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

New to me too. It's clear if one looks at the age profiles of populations through the twentieth century just what a drop in birth-rate levels came from those big wars, with partially corresponding compensations afterwards, for the Brits and French especially the 14-18 war and for most of central Europe and eastern Europe both of them. And there certainly seems to be some sort of correlation between economically based "feel-good" and increased birth rates. But it's a complicated business, and with demographics as with economics it's a great mistake to view the relatively linear future extrapolations from so called experts into reliable forecasts. It's like the weather, and the experts themselves know it. It's just the folks who pass it on to the rest of us who wrap it up with all the certainty of old testament prophesy. I'll read it again more lowly after lunch. Fresh baked hot dog rolls in the oven as I type, and sausages well heated thru. Charles01 (talk) 13:06, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Global Automakers

Hi, Charles. I've just made some changes to the Global Automakers draft and posted a new reply at WikiProject Automobiles. Care to take a look? Thanks, WWB Too (talk) 19:05, 16 December 2011 (UTC)