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To: VAUGHN who wrote (6170)	8/22/2000 11:11:37 PM
From: russet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7235

<<<Actually, the craton and points north and south were in fact temperate and tropical in the not very distant past. There are fosils and petrified wood found 200 meters down in Lac de Gras pipes and totally preserved petrified forests up on the arctic islands to testify to that, as do the Mississippi lead/zinc deposits around Pine Point south of Great Slave Lake, the Mackenzie Valley and Beaufort oil deposits, coal seams and the heavily fossilized limestones from Rae/Edzo 100 km west of Yellowknife all the way down through Alberta.>>> Time to give dates on your statement "not very distant past",...and references too. Are you saying that 50 million years ago (when some of this tectonic activity occurred,...give or take a few dozen million years) the climate in the NWT was tropical? You are saying the dinosaurs saw it all, and were probably executed by it. I might actually agree with that, give or take 10 million years or so. But you may be off by 50 million years or so. According to your rates of erosion, none of your evidence of tropical climates should exist,...that was my point,...it is still there,...time for some new theories I think,...eh!?!?! <<<In short, there has been ample opportunity for tropically eroded alluvial deposits to have been laid down, buried, eroded, reburied, eroded, pushed and/or washed thousands of miles south and north and ground to dust.>>> If the above was true, then the sands of our beaches should contain such diamond grit,...and the sand expert of Canada said on TV this is not true. Of course I'm just a dumb squished hamster, and may not have heard this guy right. I think I will go to the beach and start looking closely at the crystals I find. <<<The idea of G11's & 12's being indicative of anything in the diamond industry is news to me. I cannot recall reading any reference to them in any papers or geological posters. If someone at WSP suggested this to you I would be interested to read a paper on the subject, if your source could direct me to the author, title and date?>>> Perhaps you should direct me to evidence that these don't exist and are not significant. You are closer to Randy Turner than I am (geographically-therefore cheaper long distance calls). Phone him and talk to him yourself. Ask your illustrious PhD Chris Jennings what it is all about. The poor lowly inferior B.S. geologists keep talking about them,...perhaps it's time for the elite to discuss them. <<<There have been several quite large alluvial diamonds found in southern Ontario, Michigan and Wisconsin I believe over the past 150 years. If memory serves, at least one was over twenty carats.>>> My memory may be failing me, but my recollection suggests that these big carat diamonds were worth putkis, zero, nadda. They were crap. I'm not sure talking about them would increase shareholder wealth. Anyways, I'm just being a dumb contrary hamster. If you outlive me, the masses will probably believe you and not me. History suggests that this is most important in the short term of science history, but in the long term brains wins over blab (ggggggggggggggggggggggggggg).