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[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by masraum

And deep

I believe one feller come from Arkansas. Uh huh.










it's 230 feet deep uh huh.

[GH85Carrera]

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Any tar on that beach came from NATURAL seepage.
There is oil under almost all of the ground of So Cal. Some of it comes to the surface under the ocean, mostly prevalent in Santa Barbara and Carpinteria, but it also seeps from long beach up to Malibu.
But cha can't blame it on big bad companies, it's all mother nature.

Fascinating sammyg2.

What are Oil and Gas Seeps? - USGS PCMSC

Oil and gas seeps are natural springs where liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons (hydrogen-carbon compounds) leak out of the ground. Whereas freshwater springs are fed by underground pools of water, oil and gas seeps are fed by natural underground accumulations of oil and natural gas.

Schematic drawing of Earth's crust; see caption at left.At right, the schematic shows a vertical slice through the Earth's crust, with folded layers of sedimentary rocks holding oil and gas in the crest of an underground fold. Sometimes oil leaks out of the fold and forms a natural oil seep at the land surface.

Oil that leaks to the Earth's surface is eventually transformed from a clear fluid to a tar-like substance called asphaltum. The lighter components of the oil are lost to evaporation, and the remaining heavier oil is oxidized and degraded by bacteria until it becomes sticky and black. In this photo at right, asphaltum from a cliff-side seep near Santa Barbara, California, forms a hard, rolling surface that looks like old, worn pavement. Asphaltum from this and similar seeps may have been collected by the Chumash Indians to caulk their canoes.
Photo by I. Priestaf. From Onshore Oil and Gas Seeps in California.

[kach22i]

2000 yr old Asphaultum Hafting
Texas Arrowheads .com - An Asphaultum Covered Artifact from Harris Co.

This is a rare find for my part of the world.

In both Central Texas and along the Middle Texas coast the rains and associated humidity have washed away almost everything that is even remotely perishable. So you can imagine my surprise when I witnessed my friend Tim Page find this asphaultum covered artifact in the bottom of a Harris county creek!

Asphaultum washes up from the oil rich gulf of Mexico on the beaches here. While many people today mistake this asphaultum on the beaches for pollution from our offshore oil drilling activities, it has in fact been washing up naturally throughout time.

The Texas Indians were quick to take advantage of any gifts of nature and this naturally occurring asphalt was no exception. In late prehistoric times it was used to coat the inside of clay pots to make them more waterproof. All the way back into paleo times it was used to help haft projectile points. Asphaultum is most commonly seen as residue on points or other hafted artifacts. This point still has all of the asphaultum hafting left on it. Perhaps it survived because it was entirely under water, at any rate I was simply amazed to see it found!

[kach22i]

Source
David Jordan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:McKittrick_California_asphaltum_seepage.JPG

[GH85Carrera]

[patz]

Ouch, how'd that happen?

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

^^^^WOW those "ape-hangers" sure look stupid, and how would you control the bike ?

Don't knock it until you've tried. Its quite comfortable when cruising.

[cashflyer]

Originally Posted by patz

Ouch, how'd that happen?

Rusted frame.
The folding truck option was one of the unadvertised benefits.

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by patz

Ouch, how'd that happen?

Rust. This was a problem on these trucks. Toyota had a recall in which the whole frame was replaced.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by patz

Ouch, how'd that happen?

Toyota pickup rusty frames.

[daepp]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Any tar on that beach came from NATURAL seepage.
There is oil under almost all of the ground of So Cal. Some of it comes to the surface under the ocean, mostly prevalent in Santa Barbara and Carpinteria, but it also seeps from long beach up to Malibu.
But cha can't blame it on big bad companies, it's all mother nature.

Well put Sammy.

What really pisses me off is that everyone who lives here knows the tar has gone WAY down, but you can't get the enviro-wackos to admit it. I drove past Gaviota the last time a pipe leaked - it was easily 3 reporters for every worker, and the oil dissipated immediately. Oil companies get all the blame for the bad and none of the credit for the good.

"Next time you step on a glob of tar on a beach in Santa Barbara County, you can thank the oil companies that it isn't a bigger glob.

The same is true around the world, on other beaches where off-shore oil drilling occurs, say scientists, although Santa Barbara's oil seeps are thought to be among the leakiest.

Natural seepage of hydrocarbons from the ocean floor in the northern Santa Barbara Channel has been significantly reduced by oil production, according to two recently published peer-reviewed articles, one in November's Geology Magazine, the other in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans...

The studies were not funded by oil companies, but rather by the University of California Energy Institute and the U.S. Minerals Management Service, states Luyendyk, responding to the fact that the results favor off-shore oil production and are opposed by some environmentalists."



OIL AND GAS SEEPAGE FROM OCEAN FLOOR _x000B_ REDUCED BY OIL PRODUCTION | The UCSB Current



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[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by craigster59

Yes, 1910.

Caesar Romero, Frank Gorshin and Mickey Goldmill.

[pete3799]

Another Toyota frame

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by pete3799

Another Toyota frame

Edd China could fix that with a scouring pad and a vinyl wrap

[patz]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

Caesar Romero, Frank Gorshin and Mickey Goldmill.

The Penguin was Burgess Meredith? http://mentalfloss.com/article/60213/visual-guide-all-37-villains-batman-tv-series

Mickey Goldmill was the character he played in Rocky.

[sammyg2]

What a hero looks like:

[sammyg2]

Steinbeck's Of mice and men, 1939


Burgess "Buzz" Meredith as George, Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie.

[patz]

Lon Chaney.

[sammyg2]

Some M&M rip-offs:

Lennie and George cats:





George and junior dog:






And a looser interpretation: