Gulf Leak: Is it an Asphalt Volcano?

[Christopher Marlowe]

That would explain: the slow reaction time; BP not trying to reclaim the oil with tankers, which has worked in the past.

I'm trying to keep an open mind. I've heard Lindsay Williams claiming that the oil spill is full of toxins that will wipe out the population, but if this story is true, the most toxic thing in the gulf is the dispersant.

[youtube:3001rcjz]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbwenqQ3928[/youtube]3001rcjz]

I saw with my own eyes, the high tide leave a pool of water on a Pensacola FL beach that was covered in the Corexit chemical film. When that pool dried up in the sun, this is what it looked like: http://www.collective-thought.org/08-...

ChemTrails are every where, but this is serious stuff. Signs are warning about it: http://www.collective-thought.org/19-...

Below is an excerpt from the article:

What's the benefit of this scam? MONEY, and population control. Read the intelhub article linked below. If you're still listening, and even beginning to grasp the sinister nature of the fraud being perpetrated, then you'll realize that the corexit9500, and other dispersant's are not needed. They are purposely being sprayed by Evergreen Air/CIA to cull the population along the Gulf Coast.
Evergreen Air is a known CIA front company. The Intel Hub, along many others, have established this fact without a reasonable doubt. This evidence was backed by witness testimony. Once this is established, one must realize just how deep the rabbit hole may actually go?

GO HERE TO FIND OUT:
http://shtf411.com/viewtopic.php?t=7065

As it turns out the deadly chemical Corexit is linked to the Rothschild's, a known controlling party of the New World Order global crime syndicate.

Also, explained to me, is the large amount of useless eaters, pond scum, or undesirables living along the gulf coast. These would be the Americans living off of the government. I will not beat around the bush with pleasantries, or politically correct statements here. This coastal area from Texas to Florida has the highest, or most dense population of targets of illimination by the US Govt., and corporations. These are the populations living on welfare(in this area dominated by African Americans), and the older population living on Social Security(mainly Florida). These people are going to start dropping like flies over the next few years, and greatly reduce the burden to government coffers.

[Whaler]

CM, great find

I hope that this is true. Actually I'm praying it's true. I thought it was some sort of false flag but I thought they 'let it happen on purpose'. If this stuff isn't toxic and doesn't kill wildlife in the Atlantic then...  :clap:

I'll wait to see more evidence before i get too excited.

[MikeWB]

I'm trying to keep an open mind. I've heard Lindsay Williams claiming that the oil spill is full of toxins that will wipe out the population, but if this story is true, the most toxic thing in the gulf is the dispersant.

Lindsay Williams is one of the biggest bullshiters in the "conspiracy" movement. Don't believe anything he says.

[SavageChrist]

I'm trying to keep an open mind. I've heard Lindsay Williams claiming that the oil spill is full of toxins that will wipe out the population, but if this story is true, the most toxic thing in the gulf is the dispersant.

Lindsay Williams is one of the biggest bullshiters in the "conspiracy" movement. Don't believe anything he says.

He sure is a big old bullshitter.  I can hear it now...

"In 2 days, In 2 days, In 2 days, in order to know the rest of the story, buy my DVD / information packet!  Here's the telephone number, since we don't have a website, It's ..."

That and Fat Alex does give him the time of day on his radio show whenever supposedly something "huge" is about to happen.  I can remember Williams hawking the same $hit on Jones' show over the course of 3 days, an hour each at minimum, and it was literally like  ?  

Safe to say he's a definite fear mongering bullshitter, and perhaps even a closet Zionist   , who supposedly ran with the so called Elites "back in the day".  And he'll get his when the time comes, just like Jones, just like the rest of them, if not during their lifetimes, then definitely in the real annals of history, as frauds, sellouts, hyper fear mongering personalities who knew what they were doing by misleading those who supported them, seeking out the so called "truth" from people like Jones, LW, and so forth, and then applying what they've learned to try and make a difference in this ever hellish world, regardless of the size.

[Whaler]

I'm trying to keep an open mind. I've heard Lindsay Williams claiming that the oil spill is full of toxins that will wipe out the population, but if this story is true, the most toxic thing in the gulf is the dispersant.

Lindsay Williams is one of the biggest bullshiters in the "conspiracy" movement. Don't believe anything he says.

He sure is a big old bullshitter.  I can hear it now...

"In 2 days, In 2 days, In 2 days, in order to know the rest of the story, buy my DVD / information packet!  Here's the telephone number, since we don't have a website, It's ..."

That and Fat Alex does give him the time of day on his radio show whenever supposedly something "huge" is about to happen.  I can remember Williams hawking the same $hit on Jones' show over the course of 3 days, an hour each at minimum, and it was literally like  ?  

Safe to say he's a definite fear mongering bullshitter, and perhaps even a closet Zionist   , who supposedly ran with the so called Elites "back in the day".  And he'll get his when the time comes, just like Jones, just like the rest of them, if not during their lifetimes, then definitely in the real annals of history, as frauds, sellouts, hyper fear mongering personalities who knew what they were doing by misleading those who supported them, seeking out the so called "truth" from people like Jones, LW, and so forth, and then applying what they've learned to try and make a difference in this ever hellish world, regardless of the size.

Ya,  I think G Edward Griffin led the way for all of these con artists. Griffin Stole Mullins' work and made it profitable by pussy footing around the Jew element in the NWO. Also guys like Coleman have been successful at whitewashing the Jew factor. Williams is in the same category as Jones, Griffin, and Coleman. They are all controlled opposition and possibly working for Mossad to instigate a revolution...their job is to make sure patriotards blame the old WASP elite and to deflect any blame away from the tribe.

BUSTED!!! Eustace Mullins Exposed Dr. John Coleman In 1992
http://thewhaler.wordpress.com/2010/06/ ... n-in-1992/

[Rockclimber]

"PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! I'm begging you to buy my videos" (Williams, aka fearmongering zionist)


Nice website whaler!

[Whaler]

Nice website whaler!

Thanks,  

http://www.rense.com/general91/pred.htm

Half Past Human March 2010
Predictions Of Oil Disaster
By Clif High
6-24-10


In light of the enormous environmental BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf Of Mexico, I've been going through the 'Shape of Things to Come' ALTA (Asymmetric Linguistic Trend Analysis) Report, published March 12, 2010 by the amazing Clif High...the wizard behind the Half Past Human research.
 
The following are some remarkable and haunting excerpts from Clif's ALTA Report
 
Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved by Clif High of http://www.halfpasthuman.com ...
 
 
"The oceans are described as being not as before."
 
"Disastrous summerproblems with oceanic convection currents."
 
"the supporting aspect/attributes sets for the oceans being unlike their former selves."
 
"oceanic nightmare."
 
"tidal problems to impact the offloading of ships in ports."
 
"Ocean changes linked to volcanos" (lots of volcanic activity and the oil blowout itself has been compared to a 'volcano' of oil)
 
"many areas of costal habitat are forecast to be effectively forbidden for use."
 
"Destruction of life support systems."
 
"Indications are many of the problems are related to the core of the planet."
 
"humans and other life directly impacted by large clouds of drifting complex methane..."
 
"methane gas release events coincide with dysfunction with the propaganda press."
 
"percolating up"
 
"governments merge naval operations into some large and mysterious fleet operations."
 
"Substantial changes within our planetary environment under ocean"
 
"The Terra entity is also indicating that natural disasters will be contributing to summer 2010 blues, emotional depression of millions of humans (This is described as a coastal event.)"
 
"The un-natural disasters are showing as being a particular problem over July through August"
 
"More failures on the part of civil servants within the federal government during a regional disaster causes a large paradigm within the populace of USA over late spring through summer."
 
"natural and unnatural catastrophes that will require humans to grab their wits and immediately put them to use."
 
 
Again...all the foregoing excerpts are Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved by Clif High of http://www.halfpasthuman.com

[§N9sh2bj]

http://shtf411.com/bp-illusion-of-a-fal ... t7065.html

The large oil spills washing up on the shores are not from BP Deep Horizon. They are indeed from surrounding wells, that were already leaking by design. These wells can be verified through a simple online search. You'll notice that much of the oil is actually in the form of tar. Usually tar balls; sizes of these have reached 2000+ pounds.

From the start, BP, Haliburton, and co-conspirators knew where they were drilling. Using specific equipment, such as the German ship RV Sonne, they had detailed maps of the ocean bottom. The ship, and a specific college study from 2005, in the Gulf of Mexico, are your starting points to what's really happening in the gulf. Here's a link to what the study synopses http://geology.about.com/cs/volcanology/a/aa051604a.htm

What BP, Haliburton, and other co-conspirators intentionally drilled into was an Asphalt Volcano. Sounds scary doesn't it? It really is not. In fact, after you read the above link you'll know that the Gulf of Mexico is literally coated in oil, tar, and methane hydrate at the bottom. The study went on to find that massive aquatic life has specifically adapted to living off of the hydrocarbons. That in fact these asphalt volcanoes are a natural part of the ocean ecology, and their eruptions actually benefit the sea life over the long duration of time.

Another aspect to what I was directly told is that BP, Haliburton, and other co-conspirators drilled intentionally into the 'mid side' of this particular asphalt volcano. Basically from what I understand, it is a soda bottle effect. If they had drilled into the top of the volcano, then all the gas would rise out, and explode as would bottled carbonated liquid. The effect of drilling into the side permits a safely controlled release of gas, tar, liquified asphalt, and other related gases. What was done is a more or less controlled release; almost natural in fact!

The Asphalt volcano was a win win situation for this false flag: as it presented the best illusion to all outside parties. Not only do the conspirators need to fool the general public, but also the oil industry, and scientific community. The public is easy to fool, but the latter two groups take a little more effort; this is the main reason why the Gulf is being isolated by security contractors, and military. Anyone well versed on this giant debacle in the Gulf knows that it is surrounded with stories, and claims of negligence. This was the first purposeful aspect to make the story seem credible to all outside parties; as the story is more easily believed, when it is chalked up to human error, or incompetence.

Besides using inferior, shotty, or flat out negligent craftsmanship, as the well was intended to fail from the onset, the conspirators knew that the pressure produced from the volcano would blow out even better equipment. This was the second mechanism to fool other industry experts. All experts, and scientific communities only know what they are told, and that is the well tapped into a large high pressure hydrocarbon pocket. To even a trained eye, what they are being told appears to be a massive oil gusher, when in fact it's a controlled event.

In watching the videos, or live feeds looks horrible, and very ominous, but upon closer examination the tell tale signs of what it really is shows through, what you are actually viewing is a man made(well bore) large "Black Smoker". You should take note, as the evidence has built, the live feed appears to have been tampered with. I suspect it is because of the video below. The man narrating the video has it correct, it is a volcano! But those aren't flames. From the link provided above, they are a combination of gases; specifically Sulfur, and Iron are what create the flame effect. Since the airing of that video, several of the live feeds have been proven to be tampered footage, or faked.

[Rockclimber]

http://shtf411.com/bp-illusion-of-a-false-spill-t7065.html

The large oil spills washing up on the shores are not from BP Deep Horizon. They are indeed from surrounding wells, that were already leaking by design. These wells can be verified through a simple online search. You'll notice that much of the oil is actually in the form of tar. Usually tar balls; sizes of these have reached 2000+ pounds.

From the start, BP, Haliburton, and co-conspirators knew where they were drilling. Using specific equipment, such as the German ship RV Sonne, they had detailed maps of the ocean bottom. The ship, and a specific college study from 2005, in the Gulf of Mexico, are your starting points to what's really happening in the gulf. Here's a link to what the study synopses http://geology.about.com/cs/volcanology/a/aa051604a.htm

What BP, Haliburton, and other co-conspirators intentionally drilled into was an Asphalt Volcano. Sounds scary doesn't it? It really is not. In fact, after you read the above link you'll know that the Gulf of Mexico is literally coated in oil, tar, and methane hydrate at the bottom. The study went on to find that massive aquatic life has specifically adapted to living off of the hydrocarbons. That in fact these asphalt volcanoes are a natural part of the ocean ecology, and their eruptions actually benefit the sea life over the long duration of time.

Another aspect to what I was directly told is that BP, Haliburton, and other co-conspirators drilled intentionally into the 'mid side' of this particular asphalt volcano. Basically from what I understand, it is a soda bottle effect. If they had drilled into the top of the volcano, then all the gas would rise out, and explode as would bottled carbonated liquid. The effect of drilling into the side permits a safely controlled release of gas, tar, liquified asphalt, and other related gases. What was done is a more or less controlled release; almost natural in fact!

The Asphalt volcano was a win win situation for this false flag: as it presented the best illusion to all outside parties. Not only do the conspirators need to fool the general public, but also the oil industry, and scientific community. The public is easy to fool, but the latter two groups take a little more effort; this is the main reason why the Gulf is being isolated by security contractors, and military. Anyone well versed on this giant debacle in the Gulf knows that it is surrounded with stories, and claims of negligence. This was the first purposeful aspect to make the story seem credible to all outside parties; as the story is more easily believed, when it is chalked up to human error, or incompetence.

Besides using inferior, shotty, or flat out negligent craftsmanship, as the well was intended to fail from the onset, the conspirators knew that the pressure produced from the volcano would blow out even better equipment. This was the second mechanism to fool other industry experts. All experts, and scientific communities only know what they are told, and that is the well tapped into a large high pressure hydrocarbon pocket. To even a trained eye, what they are being told appears to be a massive oil gusher, when in fact it's a controlled event.

In watching the videos, or live feeds looks horrible, and very ominous, but upon closer examination the tell tale signs of what it really is shows through, what you are actually viewing is a man made(well bore) large "Black Smoker". You should take note, as the evidence has built, the live feed appears to have been tampered with. I suspect it is because of the video below. The man narrating the video has it correct, it is a volcano! But those aren't flames. From the link provided above, they are a combination of gases; specifically Sulfur, and Iron are what create the flame effect. Since the airing of that video, several of the live feeds have been proven to be tampered footage, or faked.

Interesting! And I sure will be keeping an open mind to the above. Obumma and company are acting like this is no big deal and yet they're not doing much to calm the peoples fears. They're is obviously something much larger at work here-again he can push his green agenda through which is going to be another jew scam-cap and trade-another bubble, and this works beautifully for that. They can also create a lot of hysteria if need be and have a few more martial law trial runs.

[Rockclimber]

Gulf Spill: Disaster? Or a Well Organized Plan
Source: http://theintelhub.com/2010/06/18/gulf- ... ized-plan/

[§N9sh2bj]

[youtube:xknzu5j3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23uwKhMrBxE[/youtube]xknzu5j3]

EVERGREEN AVIATION CORPORATION, an entity slaved to it's officers/masters. Itself cannot be held to blame, but it's agents and officers can be publicized and scrutinized. This is the same banner used by the 'rendition flights' program.

"They work by covert means..": john-fitzgerald

I say there must be a thrust to deal with the officers of these companies, including the ISRAEL corporation. These limited liability entities are all organized as corporations, and in-so-far as the 'babylonian' system has us referring to them as if they are men who can do actions, then we are as lost as can be.

Evergreen didn't 'spray the gulf', or doesn't intend to. Some pilot does, guided by some officer, both guided by egregors, the disembodied parasites who have made themselves home on the hosts. Spiritual warfare, men.

[jai_mann]

Lindsay Williams is one of the biggest bullshiters in the "conspiracy" movement. Don't believe anything he says.

He sure is a big old bullshitter.  I can hear it now...

"In 2 days, In 2 days, In 2 days, in order to know the rest of the story, buy my DVD / information packet!  Here's the telephone number, since we don't have a website, It's ..."
[/quote]


Man if you didn't just sum that asshole up. It's a damned shame that humans don't have reliable bullshit detectors. If they ever did, they're long since gone. I heard that guy on air with some one recently, can't remember who. Piper? Someone I don't listen to much, and they even said, "okay you got a nice long ad in, what CAN you share with us now". This guy is full of shit and I'd peg him as one of these asshole masons who have subverted the foolish that think they follow christianity. Hang him with Jones and the other god damned propagandists. No mercy on propagandists. These people are worse than the foot soldier who rapes and pillages, as they provide the motivation and the structure for such scientific destruction.

[Christopher Marlowe]

I hope I didn't introduce this clip badly. This audio clip is NOT Lindsay Williams, but rather it contradicts what Williams/Jones et al are saying.Williams says the plume coming out of the ground is oil and that VOCs are at a dangerously toxic level.

The "asphalt volcano" theory is that this plume is not as highly toxic as is being let on, and that it is releasing pressure from a methane/asphalt bubble; that the floor of the gulf has already been covered with oil waste and that the marine life has adapted to this. There is also the theory that the oil being released is from other rigs in the gulf. If all this is true, then the largest danger is from the dispersant.  

I don't know what to believe. The government lies about EVERYTHING. Also, the press is not being allowed access to sites. As for the VOCs, the EPA is supposedly monitoring the air quality, but that worked out really well back on 9/11, didn't it?

With the lack of solid, credible evidence, the public is left to speculate and feed on rumors spawned by Lindsay Williams and AJ. If Williams is to be believed, he has a "friend" who is a top "illuminati" who gives Williams secret, inside information.   :roll:  
And then Williams goes on AJ and tells everyone.  :roll:

IMHO, it is beyond belief that any of this was accidental.  Why would BP drill deeper into the earth than they have ever drilled before, in deeper than normal water, and ignore numerous procedures, with a massive sell-off by insiders in the weeks leading up to the disaster?  That is akin to a man buying a Ferrari, driving down the treacherous highway one, getting drunk before-hand, and buying lots of auto insurance just beforehand.  

Breaking this down, there is either oil coming out or there is not. If there is oil coming out, in this huge amount, why didn't BP send rigs to the scene with hoses to suck it up?
1)Oil rises to the surface;
2)this method has been useful in reclaiming oil in the past;
3) it would have saved a lot of clean up;
4) it would have made better PR;
5) oil is worth money.

If this is an asphalt volcano, that would explain why they are not trying to reclaim the millions of gallons of valuable oil: there isn't any. If there is oil coming out, maybe that oil is not useful for some reason. I just can't understand going around the world and fighting for oil and then not trying to reclaim oil to avoid a disaster.  

Whatever is coming out of the plume, this event is being used to push the global warming/climate change/carbon credit trading agenda. The emails from East Anglia did a lot of damage to the climate change agenda: there was nothing to point to that would justify this huge hidden tax.  Now, stupid c*nts like Paul McCartney can point to global warming and compare it to the holohoax. It's that same sort of sloppy thinking:
1) this disaster in the gulf was caused by oil so all oil drilling must be stopped.
2) Therefore oil should be stopped with carbon credit trading.
3) We can stop the world from melting by using a computer program written by Goldman Sachs.  
4) If I play a concert in Tel Aviv, they will pay me $4.3 million dollars and I can pretend that I'm not irrelevant.  
5) John was the smart one after all.  It turns out I'm just a greedy c*nt.  
6) We are the whirled. We are the chosen. We can make the world's problems go away by just throwing money at them.  

One last thought: WTF is BP handing over $20 Billion? When Exxon spilled oil in the Prince Wm. Sound, they fought the $5 Billion judgment for 20 Years, and ended up paying only $500 million. So BP is going to hand over 40 times that without even going to court?  Note that this is not a cap on BP's damages, but merely creates a fund to provide for claims.  

The effect might be to eliminate any need for discovery: i.e. if your damages are met, you have no reason to sue; if you have no reason to sue, you can't get discovery; if you can't get discovery, you can't find out what the hell happened in the gulf.  Does this sound familiar? (Hint: 9/11; Judge Hellerstein, SDNY)

[Rockclimber]

Christopher Marlower wrote:

Whatever is coming out of the plume, this event is being used to push the global warming/climate change/carbon credit trading agenda.

First of all your whole post up above is as good an analysis as any I have seen yet. The whole thing is a bit confusing but I believe the line I'm quoting is the truth of the matter. There is a TON of money to be made on cap and trade and public confidence has been shaken when it comes to global warming/climate change. These people do not want to lose so they drill a known asphalt volcano in the middle of the ocean which they have studied and turn it into a crisis.

As for the press not being able to access the site it can only be for 2-extreme reasons: it is 1)it's worse than we think 2) it's not nearly that bad and they're hiding it so they can hype it.

Don't get me wrong, for every ounce that washes up on the shores, for every little critter that dies, it's horrible. But I'm really beginning to believe that they're using this whole 'crisis' for political reasons. Obama is turning down assistance to clean up the spill from other countries for crying out loud.

Btw, Lindsey Williams imo is just an opportunist and a scare-mongerer. We're all supposed to take his word for it that his 'source' is to be trusted. It's tit for tat, Williams scare mongering sells DVDs for Jones, and Jones for Williams by giving him a place to speak.  I can't discredit him entirely though because he has been accurate in the past. But the way he promotes himself leaves him open for much scrutiny.

[Whaler]

One last thought: WTF is BP handing over $20 Billion? When Exxon spilled oil in the Prince Wm. Sound, they fought the $5 Billion judgment for 20 Years, and ended up paying only $500 million. So BP is going to hand over 40 times that without even going to court? Note that this is not a cap on BP's damages, but merely creates a fund to provide for claims.

The effect might be to eliminate any need for discovery: i.e. if your damages are met, you have no reason to sue; if you have no reason to sue, you can't get discovery; if you can't get discovery, you can't find out what the hell happened in the gulf. Does this sound familiar? (Hint: 9/11; Judge Hellerstein, SDNY)

Brilliant.

This whole thing smells like a mega-Jew scam...On par with 911.

[Whaler]

[youtube:am8k8tkw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZL9Xyri8c[/youtube]am8k8tkw]

About 6 minutes in, Madsen has some interesting info.

[Whaler]

Gulf Oil Rig Explosion Incompetence, Terrorism, Israel, Unidentified Submarine, A Question

[youtube:tpal7zsi]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWT1H-Ac7WM[/youtube]tpal7zsi]

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[youtube:tpal7zsi]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNQZpuCx36Q[/youtube]tpal7zsi]

The Truth Of What Hit The Pentagon On 911 – Israeli Submarine Launched Tomahawk Cruise Missile
http://thewhaler.wordpress.com/2010/06/ ... e-missile/

[Whaler]

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[Whaler]

Alex seems to be helping the 'new global warming' oil spill agenda.

http://thewhaler.wordpress.com/2010/07/ ... ll-agenda/

IgnoranceIsntBliss-pp forum

The gusher IS a DISASTER. Meanwhile, majority of it is all overhyped maniacal propaganda.

From what I can tell, Infowars has been helping push that hype propaganda lately.

It's not too often I disagree with Alex & Co. But talking extinction level event type rhetoric is exactly what the establishment wants.

Here are some numbers:

*40% of that gushing is methane / natural gas, which will either evaporate into the atmosphere, or sublimate back into methane hydrates, in relatively short time.

*60% of the gushing is crude. The light sweet crude in question is 75% VOC's / solvents, meaning it will evaporate into thin air in short time. About 20% is WAX, and about 3% is asphaltenes / tar (long lasting, yet not so toxic stuff considering).

The immediate damage goes without saying, but when it ends, and it WILL end, it wont be long before things aren't so dire.

When you see those birds completely covered in SLIPPERY black gunk, they're literally covered in tar wet from solvents liek acetone or xylene. Those solvents literally BURN. They're BAD for you, yes. Many of the photos I've seen. the birds should just be put out of their misery. But that wont be the case.

In general, lets get real with all of this.

[LordLindsey]

CSR, why don't you tell us what YOU are experiencing in Florida.  This situation IS REAL and IS DISASTROUS, regardless of how anyone here tries to down-play it.  There are people who I know who are seeing the effects of this shit, and that is as REAL as you can get.

I know that many things are not adding-up, especially relating to the financial-side of this disaster and those fuckers who KNEW BEFORE-HAND THAT A DISASTER WAS GOING TO TAKE-PLACE.  

I am more and more furious the more and more that I hear and see from those who are SUFFERING FROM THIS INTENTIONAL CATASTROPHE--IT IS INTENTIONAL BECAUSE THE EVIDENCE IS MUCH TOO GREAT TO SAY OTHERWISE, and when people find-out about the financial shenanigans RIGHT BEFORE THIS DISASTER OCCURRED, will "the people" just accept THIS like they have seemingly accepted all of the other SHIT that has been forced-upon them?

LINDSEY

[§N9sh2bj]

i don't think whaler or these other posters are suggesting the 'disaster' isn't real, simply because we don't think it's simply a huge, bumbled oil leak. Even if air-passenger planes didn't hit the buildings, 911 was still a disaster in so many ways. It doesn't 'un-disaster' the gulf simply because of the suggestion the problem is not from incompetent people, their incompetence is in the way the oil platform workers would willingly take incorrect orders which were wrong. Regardless of whether there was some criminal jewry involvement at the CEO level, fact is, some supposedly very non-jew people on the platform pulling the levers and doing the actual manual labor, kept doing the wrong thing even though they knew it was wrong. That's selling out, and makes them every bit as complicit in this crime as the CEO of Haliburton, 'in charge' of the rig.

It seems to be mostly COREXIT mixing with tar and oil causing, for example, the dead birds and fish, the people applying it (they must really be some kind of satanist sell-outs, as above), and the 'disasters' other purpose is to raise anxiety, which makes it easier to control people without them realizing it.
The rest is financial theft, as usual.

[Whaler]

i don't think whaler or these other posters are suggesting the 'disaster' isn't real, simply because we don't think it's simply a huge, bumbled oil leak.

Yeah exactly, The one thing we know is: This fits the agenda of the Jewish elite. Honestly, I am leaning towards this being orchestrated by the Jew elite because their precious baby(global warming) has been thoroughly debunked. We saw the ordinary "folks" get pissed about the Global Warming Scam...and it wasn't easy because Rupert Murdoch was pushing this baloney hard on his 'right wIng' smut channels and tabloid rags.

I think this is a natural occurrence that has been triggered. I think they are spraying deadly toxins and killing life on purpose. I think the media has shown that they are perfectly willing and able to con the public on behalf of the tribe(911) They are intentionally creating a rage among Americans to hate oil companies and any industrial polluting industry...which happens to contribute to the standard of life that we currently enjoy. They want to literally turn us into a 3rd world country...complete with race wars and mega death. The World must pay for America's insolence.  



"Teach those impudent Americans a lesson. Bring them back to colonial status."

- Nathan Mayer Rothschild 1811
http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradf ... schild.htm

[Christopher Marlowe]

At the heart of this "DISASTER" lies the very true statement: Nobody seems to know what is going on!"
§N9sh2bj talked about this to some extent in the previous post.
Why don't we know? Where is the press?

Just watch the first few minutes:
[youtube:1gbsdtie]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXsmLMV1CrM[/youtube]1gbsdtie]
See if anyone can provide a solid answer to these questions:
1. What is coming out of the hole in the gulf?
2. How much of that is coming out per hour/day?

It seems like those would be two fairly easy questions to answer AFTER TWO MONTHS!

Instead we hear widely varying estimates of how much is coming out: thousands to millions; gallons or barrels.  And the only thing congress made sure of was that we get access to a video of the gushing black fluid. As if....

We can send a robot down to the gusher to cut the pipe, but we can't send a robot down to get a sample of the fluid.
We can show you a video of a gushing pipe, but we can't show you where it is going.
We can invade countries that MIGHT have WMDs, and we can send citizens to secret torture prisons without trial, but we can't stop BP from dumping millions of gallons of COREXIT offshore.

And as long as I'm on the subject, doesn't the COREXIT story work well to explain why we may not be seeing all the oil onshore that is actually coming out of the pipe? i.e. Be very afraid: There's billions of gallons of crude spilling out.  Look!  Birds covered in oil!  And there would be EVEN MORE OIL if BP wasn't dumping tons of COREXIT underwater.

And WTF is COREXIT underwater all about? CNN can't get a video of shore birds covered in goo, but we SOMEHOW KNOW that BP is dumping 6 million gallons of COREXIT underwater? (I just made up that number, by the way. )

And now there is this story about the largest oil skimmer positioning in the gulf to suck up the oil:
[youtube:1gbsdtie]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV1Q5gEraJ0[/youtube]1gbsdtie]
So after 71 days, BP might start using a tanker to suck up the oil if the EPA approves it?  Gee, I'm going to cross my fingers and hope that the EPA will let BP suck up the oil rather than let it kill all the birds.  

Man, I'm glad they thought of this after 71 days. Because it's not like this wasn't done before....

A former Shell Oil president has some advice for BP: Use supertankers to suck up the oil fouling the Gulf of Mexico. He says the Saudis used it in a hush-hush cleanup project after a spill in the early '90s dumped hundreds of millions of gallons. The Saudis "figured out how to deploy supertankers that had the ability to both intake and discharge liquids in vast quantities with huge pumps," John Hofmeister tells Fast Company.

They siphon up millions of barrels of seawater and oil and head for port, where they discharge it into tanks where the liquids can be separated—and the oil used or destroyed. An engineer who saw it used says it recovered 85% of the oil from that Saudi spill. "The only downside is that you tie up oil tankers," he says. "That's why we think that BP won't listen to us. They don't want to spend that extra money."
http://www.newser.com/story/88793/hey-b ... spill.html

So, BP isn't sucking up the crude oil because... they don't want to spend the money to deploy one super tanker to the gulf
BUT they are willing to put up 20 BILLION dollars into a Trust to cover any losses to fisherman and other businesses?

So.... deploying a supertanker to the gulf costs more than 20 BILLION dollars?

Or maybe BP doesn't have access to the internets, so they couldn't read the thousands of web pages asking why they aren't sucking up the oil with a supertanker.

Until one Chinese Billionaire had the time to BUILD A NEW Oil sucking Supertanker, and sail it to the gulf.

You know, if we wait long enough, some one might invent a TIME MACHINE...and then they could go back into time and tell BP to stop drilling before the well blows up. .....Oh, someone did warn them and BP drilled it anyway?  Maybe the time machine has already been invented....in the future!  AND the EPA approved it!  Woopie!

To Recap: BP could have reclaimed the oil from the start because the technology was there; the technology was used before; everyone was writing about it on the internet; and a billionaire in China had the time to BUILD A NEW supertanker sucker....

But despite the massive trading before the explosion by insiders; and despite Halliburton buying Boots and Coots one week before the explosion; and despite numerous warning about the dangers of BP's actions....It's not like there is some OTHER MOTIVE for this DISASTER......

It's not just BP's oil in the Gulf that threatens world's oceans
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/04/9 ... z0sr469DP0

By Les Blumenthal | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — A sobering new report warns that the oceans face a "fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation" not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents that could alter global weather.

The report, in Science magazine, brings together dozens of studies that collectively paint a dismal picture of deteriorating ocean health.

"This is further evidence we are well on our way to the next great extinction event," said Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, the director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland in Australia and a co-author of the report.

John Bruno, an associate professor of marine sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the report's other co-author, isn't quite as alarmist, but he's equally concerned.

"We are becoming increasingly certain that the world's marine ecosystems are reaching tipping points," Bruno said, adding, "We really have no power or model to foresee" the impact.....

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/04/9 ... z0sr41fqjm

But how can we stop the greenhouse gases?

While serving with Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers' brother, John Ayers, on the Board of the Joyce Foundation in Chicago (1994-2002), then state Senator in Illinois, Barack Obama, funded the establishment of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). The Head of the CCX quotes the future worth of the annual business of the CCX at TEN TRILLION DOLLARS, 2/3 of the worth of the trading of all American businesses on the financial exhanges per year (FIFTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS).

Who owns the CCX? Fifty percent ownership is GOLDMAN SACHS. Another 10% is owned by an outfit out of London which includes Al Gore, David Blood/Goldman Sachs, + 3-4 other former Goldman Sachs executives.

How did the CCX get major funding from 2002-2010? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are heavily invested in the CCX.

The CCX stands to make its 10 TRILLION DOLLARS per year once Obama gets the Congress to unwittingly pass the infamous Cap & Trade Bill, personally crafted and overseen by Obama and his cronies.
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/o ... 35/?page=2

I am leaning towards this being orchestrated by the Jew elite because their precious baby(global warming) has been thoroughly debunked.

That's what it smells like to me.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Caught this link recently. Might be already covered for some people. It appears that they knew about extent of Liquid-Gas Carbon deposits there for years -- all in HUGE quantities.  You can't have the Protocols with Middle East oil production in the hands of Non-Jews or "un-metered" Free energy type sources... like much of 20th century science these days... I'm finding "Massive and Major" disconnects with discovered Facts observable to the simple layman...   -- CSR

Asphalt volcanoes discovered
13. May 2004
 
 



Asphalt flows from deep-sea volcanoes

New kind of volcano discovered in the Gulf of Mexico

Underwater volcanoes that spew asphalt instead of lava: they were discovered in the Gulf of Mexico during an expedition of the research vessel SONNE, led by Prof. Gerhard Bohrmann of the DFG Research Center Ocean Margins. On these volcanoes the multinational team of scientists encountered a previously unknown highly diverse ecosystem at a water depth of 3,000 meters. The prominent scientific journal Science reports the spectacular discovery in its issue of 14 May 2004.

Asphalt, commonly known to us as the material that covers our streets, has been found flowing out of mounds that rise 450 to 800 meters above the desert-like floor of the Gulf of Mexico. Researchers discovered the asphalt volcanoes during a cruise of the research vessel SONNE. First observed in video footage, the structures were confirmed by bottom samples taken during the expedition. "We were actually only searching for the presence of methane at the seafloor, instead we found a new kind of volcano associated with a complex ecosystem," relates Prof. Gerhard Bohrmann enthusiastically.

The researchers surmise that such asphalt volcanoes only occur in the Gulf of Mexico, but that they are abundant there, because the conditions required for their formation - deep water, salt diapirs below the seafloor, and the presence of oil deposits - are found only here.

When special microorganisms deep below the seafloor degrade petroleum, asphalt remains as a waste product. It is not unusual to find small amounts of this, but in some places in the Gulf of Mexico the asphalt covers more than a square kilometer of sea bottom. The researchers christened one of the mounds "Chapopote", after the Aztec word for asphalt. Video recordings of this mound clearly show how the asphalt flowed out of the crater and down the slope. The pictures are amazingly reminiscent of lava from volcanoes on land. In addition, they are home to numerous life forms: tube worms, clams, fish, crabs, and - typical for deep-sea oases - abundant bacteria.

Asphalt is commonly presumed to be hostile to life. "Nevertheless, we have now found a complete ecosystem, not only living on the asphalt, but also apparently feeding on it," says Bohrmann. The amazing thing about this is: as a waste product asphalt no longer contains the usual basic deep-sea nutrients, methane and hydrogen sulfide. Almost all animals living in the deep sea feed on such chemical compounds because energy from the sun only penetrates the upper layer of the ocean. "Now we have to find out what compounds the organisms on the asphalt volcanoes use, and how the network of life in this system is interconnected."

The geologist of the DFG Research Center Ocean Margins is fascinated. "As a scientist, one rarely has the opportunity to discover things that are still completely unknown. The chance for discoveries of this magnitude exists only in the deep sea."


Please direct requests for more information, interviews or pictures to:
Kirsten Achenbach
Public Relations
DFG Research Center Ocean Margins
Phone: ++49 (0) 421 - 218-9000
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Kirsten Achenbach

Room:
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 chapopote4.mpg

http://www.marum.de/en/Asphalt_volcanoe ... vered.html

Ocean Asphalt Patch a Deep-Seep Mystery
Pavement-Like Material Found on Gulf of Mexico Seabed May 14, 2004

Underwater Asphalt in the Gulf of Mexico. Click and drag photo to resize.

-- Scientists exploring the deep sea in the Gulf of Mexico have discovered seeps that resemble a paved road. Seeps are places where oil and other hydrocarbons bubble up from under the seabed. But these seeps, discovered by researchers with Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, are covered in asphalt.

The seeps were found along salt domes that lie about two miles down in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Deep sea cameras revealed about 20 salt domes that had collapsed or broken apart. Along the edges were large patches of asphalt, or hardened tar.

Scientists photographed them and took samples; they say the material is similar to asphalt pavement, and was probably squeezed out of the seabed like lava.

Oil seeps have been found in most of the world's oceans, but none with hardened material like this, according to a paper in this week's issue of the journal Science. The scientists also found communities of tube worms, mussels, clams and shrimp living on or near the asphalt.

These animals are similar to ones living near deep sea vents, and live off of the chemicals emitted from the vents and seeps. The asphalt deposits are the result of a violent expulsion of hydrocarbons, and indicate untapped deep-water oil reserves. Scientists had thought the region was relatively stable, but this discovery of underwater "volcanoes" shows "how much more there is to learn about the deep sea," says Texas A&M researcher Ian MacDonald. "The abundance of animal life is more proof of the adaptability of marine organisms."

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

The 2003 Windows to the Deep expedition will conduct seven Alvin dives on the Blake Ridge and Carolina Rise. These gas hydrate provinces lie several hundred kilometers to the east of the coastlines of South Carolina and Georgia. Gas hydrates here are the result of the great water depths (more than 2,000 meters), the cold sediment temperatures (between 2°C at the seafloor and 25°C at several hundred meters deep in the sediments), and a significant supply of methane. Most of the methane in this area was produced over thousands to millions of years by microbes that degrade organic matter buried with the sediments during deposition. These microbial processes continue today, constantly producing more methane that may eventually become frozen into gas hydrate. Read more about where and how gas hydrate forms in marine sediments.
Concentrated gas hydrate

Concentrated gas hydrate (white material) covered with mud. This core was obtained on the Blake Ridge during Ocean Drilling Program Leg 164.Click image for larger view.

In the Gulf of Mexico and other regions, gas hydrates sometimes occur at or very close to the sea floor and near seafloor mounds. In contrast, on the Blake Ridge and Carolina Rise, the gas hydrate deposits are typically deeply buried in the sediments and rarely breach the sea floor. We saw direct evidence of this in 1995 when sediments to depths of greater than 750 m below the seafloor were drilled during Ocean Drilling Program Leg 164. It showed that much of the gas hydrate in the area occurs as disseminated, small nodules. Overall, gas hydrate on the Blake Ridge probably only fills a fraction (less than 10 percent) of the available sediment porosity, although higher concentrations can be present in faults and other high permeability zones. Read more about ocean drilling of gas hydrates on the Blake Ridge and the Oregon margin.
Schematic diagram of a diapir rising up through the sediments



Schematic diagram of a diapir rising up through the sediments.Click image for larger view.

Yet, we see exceptions to the rule that gas hydrates occur only deep in the sedimentary section on the Blake Ridge. In some places, deeply buried ancient salt deposits (called diapirs) that are more buoyant than the surrounding sediments have risen toward the sea floor, a process that occurs often in the Gulf of Mexico.

Faults must form to accommodate the deformation caused by with the upward rise of the salt. These faults provide conduits for fluids and gas to migrate through the sediments and sometimes even reach the sea floor. At the same time, the high thermal conductivity of salt leads to significant disturbances of the temperatures in the sediments. For example, instead of temperature increasing by about 0.05°C per meter depth in the sediments, the temperatures of sediments above the top of a shallow salt diapir might increase at 0.1°C per meter depth.

Such temperature changes have a profound impact on the stability of gas hydrate. Specifically, increased temperatures above and near salt diapirs can lead to the development of thin gas hydrate zones that lie close to the sea floor. Essentially, the presence of the shallow diapir compresses the gas hydrate zone toward the sea floor, and the faults associated with the diapir tap into the gas-rich fluids circulating through and from the gas hydrate zone. Sea floor chemosynthetic communities living on and near these faults can gain nourishment from a variety of chemical species carried in the fluids or produced through various processes in the shallow sediments.
Seafloor chemosynthetic community at a cold seep

Seafloor chemosynthetic community at a cold seep on the Blake Ridge diapir as photographed during an Alvin dive on the 2001 NOAA Deep East mission.Click image for larger view.
Schematic diagram depicting the dynamics of a gas hydrate reservoir



Schematic diagram depicting the dynamics of a gas hydrate reservoir, including flow pathways for gas and other fluids. BSR denotes the bottom-simulating reflector, a seismic feature that often marks the base of gas hydrate in marine sediments.Click image for larger view and image credit.

Although the Blake Ridge and Carolina Rise lack high overall concentrations of gas hydrate, the total amount of trapped gas is significant on a global scale. Furthermore, these areas will help us advance our understanding of the dynamics of gas hydrate reservoirs. One advantage of the area is the relatively homogeneous composition of the sediments. Another advantage is that the Blake Ridge and Carolina Rise have almost exclusively methane gas hydrates. This contrasts with the oil-producing Gulf of Mexico basin, where many other hydrocarbons that can form gas hydrate occur. Thus, studying hydrates in this setting allows scientists to better understand the fundamental links among physics, chemistry, and biology in gas hydrate provinces.

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http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorati ... rates.html

Lakes Within Oceans

Bob Carney

Louisiana State University

One of the sites we will explore during the expedition is called the Brine Pool, which is a small lake on the seafloor with a distinct surface and shoreline. It exists inside of the ocean because its very salty water is denser than the surrounding water. Indeed, the Gulf of Mexico contains brine lakes as small as 1m across and up to 20km long. These lakes are created by a process called salt tectonics, which refers to the movement of large salt deposits.

The Brine Pool is a crater-like depression on the seafloor filled with very concentrated brines coming from the Luann Salt Layer. The brine contains a high concentration of methane gas that supports a surrounding dense mussel bed.

Today, the Gulf is a deep basin, but during the middle Jurassic period, it was a shallow sea that became cut off from the world ocean and dried out, producing a thick layer of salts and seawater-derived minerals up to 8km thick. When the region rifted apart, it reopened the ocean connection, stretched the Gulf, and resulted in a dramatic deepening of the basin. During this rifting, the salt layer was broken into a large northern layer termed the Louann Salt Layer that extends underground as far as southern Arkansas and as far south as the base of the continental slope. The fragment in the south, called the Campeche Salt Layer, is much smaller and underlies the slope off western Yucatan.

When the Gulf refilled with seawater, the fractured salt layers were preserved from dissolution by a covering of sediment. They were buried deeper and deeper by subsequent sedimentation. Eventually, the overlying sediments became so heavy that they began to deform the salt, forcing it to move. This movement—salt tectonics—has dramatically sculpted the overlying sedimentary structures. In places, the salt layer erupted through the sedimentary structures as domes, creating large mounds and ridges on bottom. Elsewhere, the salt was squeezed out, causing the sediments to drop down into a low basin.
Brine Pool and other brine lakes in the Gulf of Mexico

The Brine Pool and other brine lakes in the Gulf of Mexico are caused by dissolution of buried salt deposits created during a time when the Gulf dried out. Now broken into two large sheets, movement of the salt sculpts the seafloor, which creates unique habitats.

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorati ... _salt.html

The Brine Pool and other brine lakes in the Gulf of Mexico are caused by dissolution of buried salt deposits created during a time when the Gulf dried out. Now broken into two large sheets, movement of the salt sculpts the seafloor, which creates unique habitats. Click image for larger view and image credit.

The net result is a continental slope pocketed by ridges and basins. At the edges of the salt layer, tectonic movement tends to be lateral as the weight of sediments presses the layer out. This migrating salt edge is evident in the Sigsbee escarpment of the northwestern Gulf, the steep terminus of the continental slope. Although termed an escarpment, this cliff is quite unlike the carbonate escarpments of west Florida and Campeche. Rather, it is shorter, less steep and muddy.

Salt migration upward and outward may be the primary force that turns seeps on and off. The relationship between salt and chemosynthetic communities, however, probably extends beyond simple physical puncturing and draining of hydrocarbon deposits. When salt deposits come into contact with seawater, they dissolve, and form brines many times saltier than seawater. These heavy brines flow out of the seafloor in channels that result in puddles, pools, and even lakes of brine that are tens of kilometers long. Some have no obvious chemosynthetic activity associated with them other than bacterial action. Others, most notably the Brine Pool, have dense mats of methane-using mussels fringing their shores. The causes for such variation are not known.

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorati ... epool.html
 

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Louann Salt

The Louann Salt is a widespread evaporite formation that formed in the Gulf of Mexico during the Jurassic Period. The Louann formed in a rift as the South American and North American Plates separated. The Louann underlies much of the northern Gulf coast from Texas to the Florida panhandle and extends beneath large areas of the Gulf coastal plain of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.[1]

The Campeche Salt is the contemporaneous salt layer that developed on the south margin of the Gulf rift. It extends from Campeche, Mexico north along the west margin of the Campeche Bank north of the Yucatan Peninsula.[2]

The Orca Basin is a distinctive brine pool on the Louisiana continental shelf.[3]

One of the many salt domes derived from the Louann was the site of the Spindletop oil strike near Beaumont, Texas in 1901.[1]

The National Methane Hydrates R&D Program
All About Hydrates - Gulf of Mexico

The Northern Gulf of Mexico includes the passive continental margin, shelf, and slope of southern North America. As compared to other passive margins, two features of the northern Gulf make this area a prime location for hydrate formation: 1) the presence of the Mississippi River delta, and 2) salt tectonism.



Side-scanning radar image of the geologic interpretation of Gulf of Mexico deposits


Courtesy of USGS, GLORIA mapping project.

The eastern portion of the Gulf, which includes the Florida platform and escarpment, receives very little clastic sediment, and is therefore characterized by slow rates of carbonate deposition. In contrast, the western Gulf is dominated by siliciclastic deposition, primarily from the Mississippi River delta, and contains thick and rapidly-accumulating sequences of sandstones, siltstones, and shales rich in organic material. In addition, the low-wave action in the Gulf, the concentration of sediment supply at a single point source (the Mississippi River delta), and oversteepening of seafloor gradients has increased the potential for coarse clastics to reach deep-water environments as compared to other passive margins.

Although the northern Gulf of Mexico represents a passive continental margin, salt tectonism has resulted in extensive deformation of the sedimentary layers. During the Jurassic, the Gulf became isolated from the oceans, and a thick sequence of salt (Louann Salt) accumulated as the Gulf's water evaporated. As sediments were later deposited in the basin, their weight caused the salt to mobilize, much as toothpaste is squeezed out of a toothpaste tube. Today, salt diapirs, pillows and stocks, and listric faults are all indicators of Louann Salt movement due to overburden stresses. This deformation provides numerous pathways for the migration of thermogenic methane into shallow zones where hydrate is stable. The Sigsbee Escarpment in the western portion of the Gulf marks the southern limit of salt movement within the basin.

Another feature of the Gulf that drives the current interest in hydrates is the presence of an active oil and gas exploration industry. Because hydrate dissociation has been linked to seafloor instability, oil and gas companies drilling in offshore environments are interested in detecting hydrates so they may take the necessary precautions to reduce the risks associated with drilling through the unstable hydrate layer.

In most marine locations where hydrates are known to exist, a well-defined BSR (Bottom Simulating Reflector) marks the base of the HSZ (Hydrate Stability Zone) on seismic reflection data. However, in the Gulf of Mexico, well-imaged BSRs are rare; the complex shallow stratigraphy and structure interferes with the seismic signature of the BSR.

Map of the Gulf of Mexico, showing Garden Banks, Green Canyon, and Mississippi Canyon block boundaries

Gulf of Mexico with block boundaries

Beginning in the 1990s, the U.S. Geologic Survey, Minerals Management Service, Department Of Energy, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, collaborated with academia and oil and gas companies to work on methods for better hydrate detection. In 1997 and 1998 scientists collected over 1450 km of single and multi-channel high-resolution seismic data in Bryant and Mississippi Canyons. In addition, a local ocean-bottom seismometer survey was conducted in Mississippi Canyon. In 1999, 1400 km of single and multi-channel high-resolution data plus 500 km of side-scan and chirp seismic was collected in Green Canyon and Garden Banks. Analysis of this data led to improved geophysical methods for detecting hydrates beneath the sea floor. High amplitude "shingled" reflections and confined zones of disturbed sediments from recent slumps are thought to be good indications of hydrate presence.

Seismic line showing a high amplitude fault plane and a seismically diffuse area of gas migration beneath a possible mud volcano

Seismic line over possible mud volcano.
Reproduced from USGS Open-file Report 99-570, A. Cooper, D. Twichell,
and P. Hart investigators.


Photo of hydrate mound on sea floor

Hydrate mound on sea floor

The accumulation of gas hydrates in sea floor mounds is another distinctive occurrence in the Gulf of Mexico. Seismic data have shown high amplitude fault planes and seismically diffuse areas of gas migration beneath the mounds. These fault planes and gas chimneys provide a conduit for thermogenic gases from deeper formations to pass through the HSZ and form hydrate mounds directly on the sea floor. Samples of hydrate with thermogenic gas have been retrieved from the Jolliet Field, Green Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico.

 
Photo of deep-sea dive with Alvin submersible    Close-up photo of yellow hydrate
Deep-sea dive with Alvin submersible    

Yellow hydrate
Courtesy of Michael Peccin i

Deep-sea dives with manned submersibles like Alvin have brought researchers face-to-face with hydrates on the sea floor. Hydrate mounds have been found in the Gulf of Mexico with various colors such as orange, white, yellow, or red. Although no one knows the origin of the colors, a likely hypothesis points toward inclusions of oil, bacteria, and minerals.
Enlarged photo of ice worm


Ice Worm


Tubeworms

One of the most exciting discoveries in the brief history of hydrate science occurred on July 12th, 1997, when two researchers aboard the submersible Johnson SeaLink II discovered a new species of marine worm in 550 meters of water in the Gulf of Mexico. Informally known as the "ice worm" it was discovered living on a hydrate mound capping an oil and gas seep. The ice worm feeds off hydrocarbons and bores through hydrates for shelter and sustenance.

Subsequently, a variety of organisms have been found near oil and gas seeps. Some feed directly off hydrocarbons (i.e. ice worm and bacteria) and are known as chemosynthetic organisms. Other organisms, such as the tubeworm and mussels, form symbiotic relationships with the chemosynthetic bacteria. The host provides oxygen while the bacteria supplies food to the mussel.

http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/oi ... mexico.htm

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Salt tectonism in the Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon province controls development of
hydrocarbon reservoirs and the faults that allow oil and gas to escape at the seafloor (1).
Over 30 years ago, investigators studying the Gulf's abyssal petroleum system (2)
photographed an asphalt deposit (3) among salt domes in the southern Gulf of Mexico.
During exploration of the Campeche Knolls, about 200 km south of the photographed site
(Fig. 1A), we have now found numerous, deeply-cratered salt domes with extensive
slumps and mass-wasting at depths of 3,000 m or greater. Massive, lava-like flow-fields
of solidified asphalt, evidently discharged at temperatures higher than the ambient bottom
water (4°C), were colonized by an abundant chemosynthetic fauna.
The Campeche Knolls are salt diapirs that formed from an extensive deposit that
underlies the entire slope region (4) and hosts the major oil accumulations that comprise
Campeche offshore oil fields (5). Numerous reservoir and seal facies have also been
attributed to breccia associated with the Chicxulub impact, which occurred about 200 km
to the east (6). Guided by data from satellite imagery that showed evidence for persistent
oil seeps in this region (7) (, we mapped the bathymetry of a 50 by 70 km area with the
German ship RV SONNE (9).
Resulting swath data show that the northern Campeche Knolls are distinct, elongated hills
averaging roughly 5 by 10 km in size, with relief of 450 to 800 m and slopes of 10 to
20% (Fig. 1A). The crests and flanks on nine of the 22 knolls mapped contain linear and
crescent-shaped faults and slump scarps. In many cases the slumps are associated with
Asphalt Volcanism 3
down-slope sediment lobes that extend as far as 4 km out over the adjacent sea floor. The
locations of persistent oil seeps detected by satellite correspond to the deformed salt
structures, which indicate that significant seafloor instability is associated with
hydrocarbon discharge.

http://www.satmaps.com/oilandmineral/of ... knolls.pdf



2 Fachbereich 5 Geowissenschaften, University Bremen, D-28334 Bremen, Germany.
3 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologìa, Apartado Postal 70-305, Mexico 045510, D.F. Mexico.
4 Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologìa, Apartado Postal 1152, Cancún, D.F. Mexico.
5 IFM-GEOMAR, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, D-24148 Kiel, Germany.
6 Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Zhejiang 310012, China.
7 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geofisica, Mexico, 04510, D.F. Mexico.
8 University of Georgia, 220 Marine Sciences Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
9 TDI-Brooks International, Inc. 1902 Pinion, College Station, TX 77845, USA.
10 Aurensis, SA, San Francisco de Sales 38, 28003, Madrid, Spain.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mailto:imacdonald@falcon.tamucc.edu">imacdonald@falcon.tamucc.edu

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(get this before it is gone... CSR)

--- Looks like they have to drill into a massive Pillar of Hydrated Salts to try and stop the oil leak.... BP-NeoCon America (world)  is a lot like "Lot's Wife" at this point...all they have are pillars...


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A video-guided grab recovered approximately 75 kg of asphalt, tube worm tubes, and
additional associated sediments from the crest of the knoll. There was scant hydrocarbon
gas and no oil in these sediments (11) (Table 1). The asphalt pieces included small
fragments and large, irregular blocks weighing more than 10 kg. This material, which
was brittle and had no residual stickiness, showed columnar jointing and chilled margins
indicative of molten flow followed by rapid cooling. A medical CT scan of one of the
large blocks revealed a relatively low-density mass with an outer, eroded rind, an interior
with regular folding, and numerous occluded pebbles, the density of which resembled
carbonate. Sediments surrounding the asphalt were composed of a thin layer of brown
organic material overlying clayey, nannofossil ooze. No H2S was detected (detection
limit 2 μM), and presence of NO3
- in a gradient from about 14 to 4 μM indicated that
sediments were oxidized to at least 10 cm beneath the interface.
A second grab targeted one of the few bacterial mats observed at Chapopote.
Approximately 20% of this sample volume consisted of thick, liquid petroleum dispersed
Asphalt Volcanism 5
in veins and pockets; asphalt was entirely absent. Instead, a surface crust comprised slabs
of authigenic carbonate with layers of oil pooled beneath. Sediments were entirely
anoxic with H2S concentrations of 8 to 13 mM. Gas hydrate pieces floated in the water
as the grab was recovered and formed thin layers in the surface sediments. A negative
chloride anomaly (521 mM) in the upper 4 cm was consistent with gas hydrate layers,
while a positive chloride gradient to 599 mM at 14 cm suggested brine flow from below.
An alkalinity profile showed extremely high values from 29 to 35 mM, which indicate
oxidation of hydrocarbons by reduction of seawater sulfate.
Molecular and isotopic compositions of the gas hydrate and sediment headspace from the
second grab sample indicate moderately mature, thermogenic gas (Table 1). Aliphatic
and aromatic biological markers indicate an Upper Jurassic sourced, carbonate-rich oil of
at least moderate maturity, which is typical of deep-water hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf
of Mexico(12). Oily sediment extracts and asphalt pieces were composed of a degraded,
unresolved complex mixture (UCM) of hydrocarbons with a peak at n-C30 and a few
resolved C29 to C32 hopanes. Concentration of carbon dioxide in the oily sediment
sample is very high compared to values from deep water sediments of the Gulf of Mexico
(13). High concentration of carbon dioxide with heavy carbon isotopic composition may
represent carbon dioxide migrating from a deep source with the hydrocarbons or
dissolution of sediment carbonates under acid conditions.
Size, extent, and morphology of the asphalt flows observed at Chapopote entirely
distinguish asphalt volcanism from irregular mats and pools of viscous tar previously
Asphalt Volcanism 6
described from coastal (14) and continental slope (15) oil seeps. Chemosynthetic animals
exploit a variety of biogeochemical niches within the site, including a novel association
with asphalt. Localized seepage of oil and gas produces gas hydrate, oil-saturated
sediments, and oil traces that float to the ocean surface. High concentrations of H2S
within the upper sediment column at these localities result from the anaerobic oxidation
of hydrocarbon (16, 17). In contrast, sediments associated with asphalt flows may remain
little altered by anaerobic oxidation of hydrocarbons.
It is evident that Chapopote has been subjected to repeated, extensive eruptions of molten
asphalt under conditions probably incompatible with gas hydrate stability (18, 19). The
mechanical energy of these eruptions coupled with the violent destabilization of gas
hydrate deposits may produce the craters, slope failures, and mass wasting mapped at
Chapopote and other salt domes in the Campeche Knolls. Additional sampling and
measurement will be required to clarify the discharge temperatures of asphalt volcanism
and the biogeochemical processes that allow chemosynthetic organisms to thrive in
association with asphalt deposits. Pequegnat's 1971 photograph (3) of an asphalt pillow
shows lava-like morphology as well as a galatheid crab, a crinoid, and, although it was
not noted by the author, a solitary vestimentiferan. Thus, asphalt volcanism and
associated deep-sea life may be a wide-spread process in the Gulf of Mexico abyss.
Satellite surveillance could be an effective tool for finding more of these features.
Asphalt Volcanism 7
Figure Legends
1. Maps of the swath-mapped region of the Campeche Knolls (A) and the Chapopote
site (B) were compiled onboard the RV SONNE. Inset shows regional setting of the
swath map (rectangle) and location of a 1971 photograph (3) of an asphalt pillow
(arrow). Contour lines are in meters. Yellow dots mark locations where floating oil
was seen in satellite images throughout the knolls. Grey dots mark navigation fixes
during photo-sled survey of Chapopote. Red dots show locations of asphalt pieces or
asphalt flows. Yellow diamonds are grab-sample locations.
2. Photographs of asphalt flows and associated organisms at Chapopote were taken with
a remote photo-sled. Scale bars are ~20 cm as determined by parallel lasers projected
on sloping seafloor. (A) Asphalt flows typically had shrink-fractures normal to flow
direction; (B) blocky a'a-like morphology was found in center of flows measuring
~20 m across; (C) pa'hoehoe-like folds in freshest materials were lined with white
mats or films; (D) clusters of living tube worms were observed growing through
fissures in asphalt; (E) some vestimentiferan clusters appeared to have become
embedded in tar: (F) at edges of the flow field small clusters of vestimentiferans grew
under eroded asphalt deposits with living Calyptogena, bivalve shells, and galatheid
crabs.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Oil Driller Breaches Salt Mine Under Louisana Lake - 1980

Explains the Luann Salt Domes and Oil Traps.

[youtube:17wky0c6]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_feWtkSucvE[/youtube]17wky0c6]

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Picture Four shows that the BP site is at the base of Petit Bois Dome and the foot of Sounder Canyon.
   

Explanation of what you see in regards to the Domes- Why they are there and Understanding  how the Gulf of Mexico will be impacted with brine for years to come as a result of this spill, especially if rumors of ruptures in the Ocean Floor are correct.  
Going a step beyond the basic facts about the Gulf of Mexico in my previous message:

WHERE DID THE SALT DOMES COME FROM ?
On an oceanexplorer.noaa.gov Ocean Explorer web page dated 23 September 2003, John Bratton of  the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, said:
"... the formation of the Gulf of Mexico ... began ... over 100 million years ago ... during the Jurassic Period when the granite core of the North American tectonic plate began to separate from South America and Africa ... big valleys ... start to fill as salt deposits form, like those found in the Dead Sea in Israel and Jordan ... These deposits are called the Louann Salt in the area of the Gulf of Mexico. ...As the big crack at the bottom of North America widened, the ocean filled the big valley permanently ... sediment began washing into the widening hole from the Mississippi, and other rivers ... burying a width of more than 500 km of salt ...
Over millions of years, plumes of the light salt began to float up through the heavier sediment that covered it, like the colored liquid in a lava lamp. ...
... As the salt made it very close to the surface, sometimes having traveled through more than 10 km of rock and sediment, it pushed up the sea floor above it to form a mound or dome. ...".
HOW DID BP GET INVOLVED IN GULF OF MEXICO DEEP-SEA OIL ?
According to an aapg.org/explorer/ article by Kathy Shirley dated 3 March 2002: "... BP did ... some comparative analysis of the shelf's producing region and the deepwater... BP ... came to the conclusion that the deepwater could ultimately deliver at least 40 billion barrels of oil ...
A couple of new developments occurred simultaneously with BP's research:
Drilling contractors were developing a new generation of rigs that could drill in much deeper water depths. At that time the upper limit of the deepwater play was 5,000 feet and these new rigs could drill in 10,000 feet of water.
The new generation rigs could drill to 30,000 feet subsea. The subsea limit at that time had been around 20,000 feet ...BP started looking at the possibility of deeper plays where the ... targets were subsalt ... larger, potentially simpler traps under the salt ... versus adjacent to salt. ...".

So, while other oil companies were looking along the sides of the salt domes (above the salt layer) BP was smart enough to look under the salt layer, but as the image above shows, the salt was deposited over "very old, hard rock", so the question arises:

HOW DID THE OIL GET UNDER THE SALT ?

According to a humanevents.com article by Jerome R. Corsi dated 21 March 2006:
"... Mexico's richest oil field complex was created 65 million years ago, when the huge Chicxulub meteor impacted the Earth at the end of the Mesozoic Era.  Scientists now believe that the Chicxulub meteor impact was the catastrophe the killed the dinosaurs, as well as the cause for creating the Cantrell oil field.
The impact crater is massive, estimated to be 100 to 150 miles (160 to 240 kilometers) wide.  The seismic shock of the meteor fractured the bedrock below the Gulf
MORE>>
Proponents of the abiotic, deep-earth theory of the origin of oil point argue that the deep fracturing of the basement bedrock at Cantarell caused by the meteor's impact was responsible for allowing oil formed in the Earth's mantle to seep into the sedimentary rock that settled in the huge underwater crater.
Geologists have documented that the bedrock underlying the crater shows "melt rock veinlets pointing to large megablock structures as well as a long thermal and fluid transport" as part of the post-impact history. In other words, the bedrock at Cantarell did suffer sufficiently severe fracturing to open the bedrock to flows of liquids and gases from the deep earth below. ...".

Thomas Gold said, in his book "The Deep Hot Biosphere" (Copernicus Books 2001):
"... Earth's massive reserves of hydrocarbons ... were part of the primordial "soup" from which our planet was created ... to this day they exist in abundance deep within our planet and continue to upwell toward the surface. ... Methane hydrate ... covers very large areas of ocean floor ...[there]... are sudden outbursts of gas from the ocean floor ... as in the eruption that caused a dvastating tsunami on the coast of Papua, New Guinea, in July 1998 ...".

So, oil and methane were originally BELOW the "very old, hard rock", and when the Chicxulub impact hit the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago, it fractured the "very old, hard rock" and allowed the oil and methane to come up to the surface and form pools under the salt layer, which pools BP was smart enough to find,and
in April 2010 the oil and methane blew out the BP Gulf of Mexico well.

WHAT DID THE METHANE HAVE TO DO WITH THE BP WELL BLOWOUT ?

According to a guardian.co.uk article by David Sassoon dated 21 May 2010:
"... The vast deepwater methane hydrate deposits of the Gulf of Mexico are an open secret in big energy circles. ... For the oil and gas industry, the substances are also known to be the primary hazard when drilling for deepwater oil. ... Methane hydrates are volatile compounds — natural gas compressed into molecular cages of ice. They are stable in the extreme cold and crushing weight of deepwater, but are extremely dangerous when they build up inside the drill column of a well. If destabilized by heat or a decrease in pressure, methane hydrates can quickly expand to 164 times their volume. Survivors of the BP rig explosion told interviewers that right before the April 20 blast, workers had decreased the pressure in the drill column and applied heat to set the cement seal around the wellhead. Then a quickly expanding bubble of methane gas shot up the drill column before exploding on the platform on the ocean's surface.

Scientists are well aware of the awesome power of these strange hydrocarbons ... their sudden escape is considered to be a threat comparable to an asteroid strike or nuclear war. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a Livermore, Ca.-based weapons design center, reports that when released on a large scale, methane hydrates can even cause tsunamis. ...".

COULD THE GULF OF MEXICO METHANE CAUSE A TSUNAMI ?

Consider the role of methane in the Papua New Guinea tsunami of 1998. Richard Monstersky wrote in Science News (3 October 1998):"... in Papua New Guinea ... three mountainous waves pounded the northern coastline on July 17 [1998] and carried away at least 2,500 people ... The jolt that preceded the tsunami measured 7.1 ... meaning it was a strong but fairly common quake ... the earthquake itself could not have generated such a large wave ... the earthquake triggered an underwater landslide ...The seafloor off the north coast plunges steeply into a submarine trench, and the sediments piled on this slope may easily slump downhill when shaken ... Sediments along the margin of continents often contain ... methane hydrate ...
In 1992, a strong and extremely slow earthquake off the coast of Nicaragua sparked a massive tsunami that killed 170 people. A seafloor survey conducted afterward
showed scars from slides in a region known to be rich with methane hydrate ...".

As this Google Earth image (red fire symbol is the BP well site) from a previous message shows. As to what are the domes, Brian D. Hoyle and E. Julius Dasch wrote a  waterencyclopedia.com article "Brines, Natural" in which they said: "... Salt Domes.
... A salt dome is a geological structure where very deep deposits of  relatively "plastic" salt flowed upward through the bedrock owing to  the great pressure of this overlying rock and sediment. The salt may  break through the rock and sediment layer, protruding with a dome-like shape, thus giving the structure its name.
Salt domes are a distinctive feature of the Gulf of Mexico, in  particular the central region of the gulf ... The solution at the bottom 150 meters (492 feet) ... is not sea water but a highly concentrated brine with little or no free oxygen. A layer of salt formed at the Orca basin during the Jurassic Period of Earth's  history. ...
Oil and gas included in these sediments may be pooled and trapped by salt dome structures and form attractive targets for energy exploration.
There are more than 500 known salt domes in the Gulf Coast region.  Some of these originate from the salt layers that are many kilometers  underground. ... salt domes on the sea bottom expose the salt to the sea water. ... The extreme salinity of the area immediately  surrounding the salt dome, however, will create a pool of salt water  that is denser than the surrounding sea. This extremely salty water,  or brine, leaks from the area of the salt dome into surrounding  depressions on the sea floor, creating brine pools. ...".

The Jurassic Period was about 200 to 140 million years ago, so the  Gulf of Mexico salt layers were formed prior to the Chicxulub impact  65 million years ago. Maybe the impact fractures facilitated the formation of the present-day salt domes.

I hope some of the above background information might be useful.

Tony

http://www.jerrypippin.com/OilSpillArea.htm


This link on Methane Hydrates and the "Ice" it makes is interesting as well.
https://www.llnl.gov/str/Durham.html

[Christopher Marlowe]

Besides asphalt, the expedition found places soaked with petroleum and others with cold, white layers of methane hydrate. Like cold seeps elsewhere on the world's seafloor, all of these localities supported colonies of chemical-eating organisms. Bunches of tubeworms were found growing in and around the tar flows. Apparently something makes the asphalt attractive to life, but no one is sure yet how the biogeochemistry works.

At Chapopote the tar seems to have come out of the ground hot, but like undersea lava flows, it quickly hardens in the cold seawater. In fact it forms asphalt "aa" and "pahoehoe" just like what you find in Hawaiian basalt. In another parallel with ordinary volcanoes, the warm asphalt turns delicate icy layers of methane hydrate into bursts of free gas, just as hot rock lava causes explosions by flashing groundwater into steam — phreatomagmatic eruptions.
http://geology.about.com/cs/volcanology/a/aa051604a.htm

   World's Oldest Oil Spills: Asphalt 'Volcanoes'
    These undersea mounds of asphalt have been leaking oil for tens of thousands of years.
    By Larry O'Hanlon
    Wed Apr 28, 2010 07:00 AM ET
http://news.discovery.com/earth/asphalt ... spill.html
THE GIST
    * The "asphalt volcanoes" were found 700 feet down off the shores of southern California.
    * The asphalt is at least 35,000-years-old and may contain remains of ancient organisms.
    * Massive and deadly eruptions of methane probably accompanied the asphalt.

Asphalt Ocean
The world's largest and oldest piles of asphalt have been found on a sea floor basin off Santa Barbara, Calif.

The six-story-tall "volcanoes" of crumbly, tarry stuff found 700 feet (213 meters) down are not a highway department waste dump. Rather, they are the result of natural oil seepage from the sea floor over tens of thousands of years.

What's more, rather than being an oily death trap, the mounds are teeming with animal life.

The approximately 35,000-year-old volcanoes are also potential treasure troves of ancient sea organisms, said David Valentine of the University of California at Santa Barbara and lead author on a paper about the discovery in the latest issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.
....
The asphalt volcanoes are found beside large pits thought to be the dregs of large, sudden methane releases. These rapid emissions are thought to be responsible for huge die-offs of marine life in the area, as well as possibly contributing to past global climate changes, given that methane is a potent greenhouse gas.[ :roll: ]

"I can see that this mechanism related to asphalt volcanism -- seepage of heavy oil -- may account for punctuated events of methane release in the history of the basin," observed Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, professor of organic geochemistry at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Hinrichs' research has focused on sudden eruptions of methane from the sea floor. The pits beside the asphalt volcanoes also pencil out an amount of methane in the same ballpark of what Hinrichs estimated came out of the sea floor during an event 44,000 years ago, he said....