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Eric Twelker

Email :

twelker@alaska.net

Phone :

907 789-6800

Address :

P.O. Box 33873

Juneau, AK 99803

USA

   

A web page of Eric Twelker's interests

 

I am a geologist, attorney, and web business owner.  This web site is serves as a place to put papers, presentations and other miscellaneous material related to various projects. Some of it is linked and some of it isn't.  It is pretty much all geology of one sort or another.

My geological background is in mining exploration and I approach the science from that perspective. That said, when I push the origin of ore deposits to an understanding based on first principles, almost every aspect of geology is included. My Greens Creek Mine work has lead me to suggest some changes in volcanic evolution and metamorphic geology. My consideration of the origin of gold deposits in the Seward Peninsula has lead me to a new way of looking at mantle-crust interaction. (It's not completely new as it has been suggested in other contexts.) The Hawaii Hot Spot page is a simple corollary that came out of the work that is still underway.

Presentation of these ideas has been an interesting experience. For the most part they have been ignored, but that's okay. I do this for the fun of it and I haven't spent the time I need to promote and develop the ideas. That's for the to-do list.

Here is a picture of my family.
And visit my web business: The Meteorite Market

These are some quotes that I don't necessarily live by, but may have some application to something:

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
Mark Twain

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."
Leo Tolstoy

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'"
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs."
Sir Francis Darwin (1848 - 1925)

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."
Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
Mark Twain

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong"
Ayn Rand

 


  2011 GSA Poster

Can a Horizontal Astronomical Driving Force and an Independent Vertical Convective Force Explain Global Tectonics?

Key Resource
Comment on my Hawaii Hot Spot Page!

This is my first attempt at raising interest in one of my ideas.

 
2007 GSA Poster

Penecontemporaneous Foliation as a
Continuum from Soft Sediment Deformation

Greens Creek Mine Geology Page

(under construction. . . )

Woewodski Presentation


Links:
An article that suggests I am not the only crazy person . . .
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1590440,00.html
My father--someone who will be remembered for his original mind: http://www.legacy.com/NWclassifieds/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=18686286
An editorial I wrote on the Kensington Mine:
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011007/opi_20070110008.shtml
The Pebble Mine is suffering a most unfair attack. This page on that topic is of interest:
http://www.bob-gillam-cant-buy-alaska.com
  Pressure Solution Page
 

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