Gentlemen, Jardine, Matheson and Company would like to commence this candle auction with a published list of 12 items for sale.Įach item on the list will be auctioned for the length of time it takes for its allotted candle to burn down one inch. and his wife since left.īecause I am more generous than my father.įrom now on, we drink beer only from bottles and wine from flasks. Look, it was cheaper than the tavern and, er, your father only gave me coppers.Ī man who's since d*ed. Toward the end, you said my father rarely ate. While we're on the subject of housekeeping, I mean to have a word with you about food. What is it about you bloody mad Delaneys? You may choose to leave my services if you wish, Mr. Now you can march with me.įor the purpose of staying alive right now. This is going to bring the house down around it. Only Delaney's death will render it obsolete. If you open up that ball of paper, you'll see notice of your dismissal from the East India, dated two days hence. It is taking a little longer than I anticipated. So, you've no problem with the principle of obeying me, just the execution. It will bring the King and Empire down upon your head. I'd hoped to settle this matter in a modern way, but that is not going to be possible. Now he is returned and Delaney's will leaves him everything, including Nootka.īritain and the United States are currently at w*r. One thing Africa did not cure is that I still love you. I would say heavy doses over a short period. Delaney's funeral and a ghost appeared, a son we all thought d*ad in Africa.ĭear Lord Almighty, is that your brother? It is likely that high sediment accumulation and lateral tectonic compression associated with accretionary prism formation along the west coast of Vancouver Island support overpressuring of fluids at depth along the Nootka Fault zone, resulting in growth of the two volcanoes.I attended Mr. It is not yet known if this volcano is hydrothermally active. However, like Maquinna, seismic reflectivity is lost nearly completely beneath the mound, except for a very bright reflector at about 800 m depth. A second volcano lies ~ 8 km to the northwest of the Maquinna that has a less well defined seafloor expression. To further understand the biogeochemical cycles at these sites, samples recently taken from piston cores and CTD casts in this region, are being surveyed for stable and radio carbon isotope signatures of CH4, dissolved inorganic carbon, organic carbon and phospholipid bacterial biomarkers. Additional culturing experiments and analysis of preserved samples are underway to further characterize the microbes. Some of these cultures can use methane oxidation as an energy source. Enrichment culturing indicates that these communities include both anaerobic and aerobic organisms, some of which are thermophilic with optimal growth temperatures in excess of 50 deg C. Microscopic examination of the Nootka hydrothermal samples shows that they contain dense and morphologically diverse microbial communities in comparison to background seawater with cell densities of 106 cells/ml. The fluids are depleted in CO2, contain background concentrations of CH4, but show elevated H2 concentrations above ocean background water. These data indicate that the volcano is actively venting warm hydrothermal fluids. A CTD vertical cast above the summit of the volcano showed strong, co-registered thermal, particulate, and oxygen anomalies that extend 50 m up into the overlying water column. This reflector is too deep for stability of methane clathrate, and is interpreted as a zone of high fluid content. However, a very bright reflector is seen at about 400 m depth below the volcano.
Subsurface imaging shows a dramatic loss of reflectivity beneath the volcano mound, which may indicate significant mobilization of material. The base is bounded by a narrow moat, partially filled by Holocene sediments that are flat lying older, underlying sediments show steep downwarping towards the sides of the volcano. It is 1.5 km across, has a breached caldera and two small summit craters, and it stands about 30 m above the seafloor. The southern volcano, called Maquinna, lies directly along the southern expression of the left lateral, strike slip Nootka Fault. However, during a Hydrosweep bathymetric survey in July, 2001, and a follow-on sub-surface seismic survey in August two mud volcanoes were imaged along the Nootka Fault, 16-18 km west of Vancouver Island at a water depth of 2500 m. Submarine mud volcanoes are a common feature in margin environments, but few of them have been documented in the Northeast Pacific.
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