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--- need to add images still --- being in i would say a small subsection of the Big " Maps and Cartography" category the " photo realistic " area i tend to work with imaging data from spacecraft and hence tend to not want labels and grid lines and compasses on the image although this is not from photographic images of Mars but a charcoal sketch map from looking through a telescope ( looking ...
All of us have some pet peeve ,or more than just a few sometimes mine JPEG COMPRESSION ARTIFACTS !!!! most of my time in digital image restoration is trying to REMOVE and undo these "cow pucks " Now the use of jpg / jpeg image format on the net is one of those necessary evils ( like messing up the incantation Gort: "Klaatu barada n?? n something ??? necktie ," when ash picks up the Necronomicon ) --- shop ...
Updated 11-26-2014 at 09:31 PM by johnvanvliet
just a place holder for know seeing what works google+ / picassa albums https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/1...8562941/albums a green Mars a 1080 HD vid of the Earth at night map i made ( 65538x32768 px) --- Click on HD 1080 and FULL SCREEN and sit back ---
Updated 11-01-2014 at 01:51 AM by johnvanvliet
Originally Posted by waldronate A lot of economically important minerals (lead, copper, silver, gold, tin, zinc, etc.) are associated with hydrothermal systems, as are many types of gems (beryls like emeralds, oxide gems like sapphires, and silica gems such opals are commonly formed in hydrothermal systems; diamonds are not). Hydrothermal systems come in a number of forms, but the basic idea is that hot water dissolves out soluble things like the common metals and sulfur in the hot areas and deposits them in cooler ...
Originally Posted by Adversary Gold is usually found with quartz (but unfortunately not the other way around) and granite which is are igneous materials so there would have to have been some magma near the surface of the earth. I have also heard that some gold was found in meteor impacts but I can't believe that would be a major source. Marble on the other hand is metamorphosed sedimentary rock high in carbonates (think limestone). The original limestone was formed on a seabed with lots of shell forming creatures. ...
Updated 10-27-2014 at 06:44 PM by xeyla
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