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The David Pratt article at www.ncgt.org ended in a bit of a drizzly fizzle as part of the Expanding Earth hypothesis includes polar wander -

For an evaluation of Plate Tectonics and various expanding earth models go to www.geologynet.com/tectonics1.htm We also have an interesting book that widens the expanding earth

In Current Archaeology 280 (June/July, 2013) (www.archaeology.co.uk ... look in different categories. In 'news' you will find the following /articles/news/walbrook-channel-mystery-panel.html while in the features section

The Expanding Earth theory must have been getting under somebody's skin as the debate at www.skepticblog.org/2009/11/23/no-growing-earth-but-a-growing-problem-wi... ... appears to resort to the current fashion of

At http://phys.org/print290325427.html ... there is a lovely image of the Sinai peninsular overlain with the drainage network of Wadi el-Arish. According to a new study

The Chandra X-ray Observatory, says, that over the last 13 years, it has identified 26 black holes in the Andromeda galaxy - sister to the

A survey of Antarctic ice shelves has discovered that ice dissolving from underneath accounted for 55 per cent of shelf loss from 2003 to 2008.

The mad scientist is active and kicking at the boundaries of reason. Dr Strangelove is interferring in nature - for the human good. Of course.

At http://phys.org/print290255566.html ... water as a lubricant of Plate Tectonics may be over rated according to geoscientists in the current issue of Nature - following

At http://phys.org/print290254727.html ... rock samples from Tunguska appear to be meteoric in origin according to a paper in Planetary and Space Science (5th June 2013)

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-201&cid=release_2013-201 ... the NASA spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered that temperatures in the atmosphere of Mars regularly rise and fall twice a day.

Not everyone is happy with the walking Easter Islands statues hypothesis as in the Oct 12th 2012 article in Journal of Archaeological Research, by Carl

At http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/piri-res-pdf-sub... .. we have somebody that dates the map to 7000BC, and claims it has a meridian based on Gobekli Tepe in eastern Turkey.

At www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829204.200-egypts-city-of-bean-counters... ... is a story derived from an excavation which displays evidence of repeated flooding events at a town below the Giza plateau, the

Nice post at www.q-mag.org/stonesfallingfro/index.html ... on historical accounts of stones falling out of the sky and the resistance by scientists in Europe to the very

At www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=18649 ... it is a conical structure 230 feet in diameter and 39 feet high. It seems to have been built on dry land

At www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/posts/A-typical-British-summer-in-the-making Paul Hudson, a BBC weather man, brought HH Lamb back into life last Monday, quoting his work. Lamb has been out of favour

At www.hud.ac.uk/news/researchnews/archaeogeneticresearchrefutesearlierfind... ... well, I never, kicked into touch - now bouncing back. You can't keep a good consensus theory down - it will pop

A story that may come up trumps during later excavations is never the less worth looking at for the time being. At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2013/article/archaeologists-un... ... close

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-198&cid=release_2013-198 ... NASA reports on a black hole in the middle of the Sculptor galaxy that has apparently gone quiet - even gone to