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> New Tertiary stratigraphy for the Florida Keys and southern ...
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> exposure-capped limestone cycles, presumably related to rapid eustatic fluctuations while ... Florida peninsula and is not present beneath the Florida Keys. Deposi- ..... (1967) divided the Miami Limestone into an upper unit, an oolitic facies, and a lower .... Correlation of gamma-ray signatures be
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> Gamma ray logging is a method of measuring naturally occurring gamma radiation to characterize the rock or sediment in a borehole. It is sometimes used in ...
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray_logging 
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> --- In [hidden email], Rolf Muertter <muertter@...> wrote:
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> > I don't believe that the oolite is emitting gamma rays. Did you verify with a Geiger counter? Can you cite any references?
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> > Rolf
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> > On Sep 19, 2012, at 12:31 PM, snoshoe_2 wrote:
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> > > Just a quick note on oolite, since I haven't gotten in here on it yet.
> > > I did receive some, and it did have a kinda nice warm fuzzy feel when
> > > I took it out of the pkg.
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> > > This told me it was probably radiating something. I searched, and it is.
> > > It emits gamma rays.
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> > > The amount I don't know, but perhaps someone can find a study from say 20 yrs. ago before all our tech. was everywhere and see what the cancer rates of people living in areas with high concentrations of that is?
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> > > It does for whatever reason, maybe because it is calcium based, seem to give some relief from AC power, not the microwaves to me.
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> > > So, we may just be trading one thing for something even worse.
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> > > ~ Snoshoe
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> > > --- In [hidden email], Elizabeth thode <lizt777@> wrote:
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> > > > Hmmm.......this is interesting.My basement walls are Limestone.
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> > > > Oolite
> > > > is also known as Limestone.
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> > > > Calcite
> > > > is the principal constituent of LIMESTONE and marble.
> > > > These rocks are extremely common and make up a
> > > > significant portion of Earth's crust. They serve as one of the largest carbon
> > > > repositories on our planet.
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> > > > Calcium Carbonate Sorbents
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> > > > Sorbents are substances that have the ability to
> > > > "capture" another substance. Limestone is often treated and used as
> > > > sorbent material during the burning of fossil fuels. Calcium carbonate reacts
> > > > with sulfur dioxide and other gases in
> > > > the combustion emissions, absorbs them and prevents them from escaping to the
> > > > atmosphere.
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