Thursday 17 July 2008

Andrew Atroshenko paintings

Andy Warhol Banana
Alfred Gockel paintings
they find dead carcasses in such a clean, dark, cold, featureless landscape."Spreading Censors ExploredAt the other end of North America, the spanking new Coast Guard icebreaker will have one primary target on its list. Scientists aboard the Healy will study the Gakkel Ridge, more than 3 miles below the surface. The Gakkel Ridge is one of many "spreading centers" around the world where chunks of the seafloor are spreading apart, allowing new ocean bottom to form as magma flows up through the ridge.But what makes the Gakkel Ridge so fascinating to scientists is it spreads at about a twentieth of the pace of other spreading centers. And unlike other ridges, which bubble with heat as molten rock spews onto the ocean floor, Gakkel is sort of like a "big crack in the Earth," according to Henry Dick of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who first came up with the

No comments: