Comments on: A Hole in the Map http://climateaudit.org/2006/12/31/x-marks-the-spot/ by Steve McIntyre Sat, 25 May 2013 14:44:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Louis Hissink http://climateaudit.org/2006/12/31/x-marks-the-spot/#comment-74122 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:14:36 +0000 http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=998#comment-74122 #12

Thanks Steve for the correction – I tend to automatically assume when you find a hole in data that it’s directly related to the map. Serves me right for a quick scan of the post without reading it fully. (I tend to scan the blogs during lunch-break as right now it’s the only time I have, lunch being the time it takes to eat some sushi rolls and a japanese salad ;) ).

That said I wonder if there is a dataset available for those salinity measurements?

I would also have a look at a world geomagnetic map and see what it shows – pity we don’t have datasets for the earth’s electric field – as well as gravity.

In any case it remains highly anomalous – I would have initially thought higher alinity would be as a band around the equator rather than ‘down there’.

There also should be cores down in that region, from memory the Challenger expedition?

]]> By: welikerocks http://climateaudit.org/2006/12/31/x-marks-the-spot/#comment-74121 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:43:03 +0000 http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=998#comment-74121 SteveM, there is an anomalous area called Easter Micro plate (that rotates? weird!) Easter Microplate

This page mentions SeaBeam (1983), SeaMARC II (1987), GLORIA (1989), and NAUTILE (1993) maybe looking up these projects you can find more information about that area?
And if you google Pitcairn + volcanoes there’s articles and papers as well.

]]> By: Steve McIntyre http://climateaudit.org/2006/12/31/x-marks-the-spot/#comment-74120 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:47:13 +0000 http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=998#comment-74120 The salinity high appears to be somewhat to the north of Easter Island on the east and Pitcairn Island on the west.

]]> By: Steve Sadlov http://climateaudit.org/2006/12/31/x-marks-the-spot/#comment-74119 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:44:33 +0000 http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=998#comment-74119 RE: 120W and 20S

I believe the East Pacific Rise passes near there. Lots of black smokers.

]]> By: welikerocks http://climateaudit.org/2006/12/31/x-marks-the-spot/#comment-74118 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:56:40 +0000 http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=998#comment-74118 Sorry again, I know “volcanoes” -what I get for being up so early!

]]> By: welikerocks http://climateaudit.org/2006/12/31/x-marks-the-spot/#comment-74117 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:52:02 +0000 http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=998#comment-74117 Oh darn, re 17 I meant the main map here:volcanos of the world The other link is also good-it is the pacific so just click on the volcano list.

]]> By: welikerocks http://climateaudit.org/2006/12/31/x-marks-the-spot/#comment-74116 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:47:25 +0000 http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=998#comment-74116 SteveM have you considered submarine volcanos in that spot?

For instance re: #16 that hole is an island
uninhabited Antipodes Islands complete with volcano

Latitudeude: 49.68°S 49°41’0″S
Longitude: 178.77°E 178°46’0″E
volcano information
Map of Antipodes Islands (island(s)), New Zealand

This map shows the bullseye area (?) w/volcanos marked: pacific map Click on the subregions under this map and it will take you to another page with a map, then click Volcano List on the left and it will give you longitude and lattitude of each volcano in that area.

]]> By: Steve McIntyre http://climateaudit.org/2006/12/31/x-marks-the-spot/#comment-74115 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:30:48 +0000 http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=998#comment-74115 #15. That hole is at 175E and 44S so it’s just off the Stott map and quite a distance from the salinity high. This is probably pretty close to Bob Carter’s ocean sediment holes which I discussed on an earlier occasion and will revisit at some point.

]]> By: maksimovich http://climateaudit.org/2006/12/31/x-marks-the-spot/#comment-74114 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:20:12 +0000 http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=998#comment-74114 Reference: Hollis, C.J., Mildenhall, D.C. & Naish, T.R. 2002: Orbitally-influenced deep sea record of terrestrial vegetation response to the mid-Pleistocene climate transition, offshore eastern New Zealand. Western Pacific Geophysical Meeting, Wellington, New Zealand. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 83, 22 (supplement), WP19.

http://www.gns.cri.nz/research/gct/images/HOLLISetal2002.pdf

]]> By: Steve McIntyre http://climateaudit.org/2006/12/31/x-marks-the-spot/#comment-74113 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:24:01 +0000 http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=998#comment-74113 #13. Again, I’m not disputing the climatology here!!! What I’m observing is that we don’t seem to have ocean sediment cores in something that has an interesting climatological feature.

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