After reading up a bit on the Olivine theory, these are the issues I have with it:
1. Olivine occurs naturally in much of the world, however,as your link to the publication suggested it should only be done in 'wetter' environments. When I looked up the deposits around the world, these were the listed countries' deposits: Large deposits of olivine-bearing dunites crop out in Norway, Sweden, USSR, Austria, Japan, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, South Africa, United States, New Caledonia, Italy, Greece, Spain, India, Brazil, and Canada (Anon., 1970, Bennett, 1940; Brothers, 1960; Du Rietz, 1935; Francis, 1956; Gwinn, 1943; Hunter, 1941; Ragan, 1961; Roberts, 1947; Yudin, 1959). In the United States, numerous lenslike bodies extend in a belt from northeastern Georgia, northeastward across western North Carolina. Some 25 of these deposits are relatively fresh, with each containing up to five million tons of recoverable olivine. Many small to large dunite bodies occur in northwestern Washington, with the Twin Sisters deposit being the largest. Taylor (1967) describes eight zoned ultramafic complexes in southeastern Alaska containing cores of dunite. Some of these olivine cores are as great as one mile in diameter. Almost all of these countries other than Brazil are out of the 'wetter' climates. In my humble opinion, I think Humans have had ENOUGH environmental impact on the Brazillian/Amazonian Rainforest for many generations to come. PD source: http://books.smenet.org/Surf_Min_2ndEd/sm-ch02-sc10-ss18-bod.cfm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
