Hot Springs & Volcanoes & Lake FUBAR Connection

Last week contributor, Walter gave a mention of hot springs as indicators of geophysical movement.

Ms. Reesa had this to  say-

A while back, Walter posted some links to some springs.

I looked into them and a few of my own choosing. I found a few interesting things but nothing extraordinary.

I was reading through some studies about the volcanic past of the GOM, when I ran across a reference to Hot Wells, Louisiana. And, Hot Wells IS VERY INTERESTING!

The first thing that caught my attention was the “hot” in Hot Wells. Then, a mention in a blog piece that stated that the spring was a salt water spring…a salt spring with the exact same composition as that as the GOM…all the way up near Alexandria, Louisiana I have no idea which study I was reading when I made a note to look up this place but, I had made a note at the time that it ‘seems to be related to the Red River system and the Mississippi Canyon and their corresponding transform faults.”

And, that makes it even more interesting, since our transform faults run northwest to southeast. The Mississippi River Transform Fault (see p.8 of http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2010/30129stephens/ndx_stephens.pdf) , and several other smaller faults that run parallel to it (p.9), run up through a volcanic swath of the gulf – through Bayou Corne/Napoleonville – straight up the Red River and on into a volcanic area of Texas and an ancient rift system. I have all sorts of docs to show the volcanic area of Texas and the ancient rift system that runs across the top of Louisiana but, I wanted to hurry and put this out there.

The Apache gas well blowout in February…it was near the outskirts of Door Point volcano in the GOM and another transform fault runs through that area and parallel to the MS River fault up toward Minden…which I think is also the site of some volcanics. I have to check.

AND –

I looked into the 5.2M GOM earthquake post from the other day. By the way, I didn’t do a screen capture, but I did check the website shortly after and I saw it there. It may still be there on their ‘list’ page. No, it did not occur near the BP blowout, but it does seem to be in a line with the the faults I listed in my last post. And, if one looks at the maps in these two documents, it seems that most of the larger historical earthquakes follow the same trend and in the same fault area of the Eastern Province of the GOM. Sorry about the long sentence.

7 Quakes link: http://www.lgs.lsu.edu/deploy/uploads/7earthquakes.pdf

Title: A Geohazard Perspective of Recent Seismic Activity in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Wiki Link: http://e-book.lib.sjtu.edu.cn/otc-2007/pdfs/otc19035.pdf

[2 links above are added to the Methane page 😉 ]

On some flim-flam with Hot Wells property –

These links suggest to me something even worse. I won’t state it. Maybe someone else will see what I do. But, I will say this…the bill that was passed giving the property to the state and/or parish (because it does get a little blurry and I haven’t had a chance to really research it yet) …that bill’s passage was no accident and I’ll be willing to bet the energy industry is involved!

Hot Wells Resort was once bubbling with activity, 4-26-2007
http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20070429/COMMUNITIES/704260340/Hot-Wells-Resort-once-bubbling-activity
Link Retrieved 7-11-2013

Hot Wells Shameful Fate, We Saw That, 2-20-2007
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/02/hot-wells-shameful-fate.html
Link Retrieved 7-11-2013

The Latest Hot Wells Scam in the News, We Saw That, 7-6-2009
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2009/07/latest-hot-wells-scam-in-news.html
Link Retrieved 7-11-2013

Hot Wells sale reserved: Investor has no-bid deal on Rapides spa site
By Robert Morgan  • July 5, 2009 (pdf link works)  (ALT. LINK …just in case )
http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20090705/NEWS01/907050301
Date Retrieved: 7-11-2013 ← restricted access –  this snip is useful:

“McPherson said Act 264 of 2007, authored by him and co-authored by then-state Rep. Israel “Bo” Curtis of Alexandria, authorized DHH to transfer the land to Cypress Bend Investments LLC, an investment company in Boyce started in 2002 and owned by Monroe Thompson.”

Just in case there’s anyone  is not aware…the Mississippi and the Red River both overlay the Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer that overlies the sinkhole…that is filling continuously with methane and hydrogen sulfide gases.

AND –

Other things to take special note of in the Hot Wells’ links:
DHH owned the Hot Wells…same folks say “all clear” at the sinkhole.
The National Guard has been using it for years…instead of it being renovated and bringing in $$$ in this depressed economy. Fishy!!
One of the wells has had to be capped….

Let’s not forget Lake Peigneur! Their dome sits right at the edge of this swath of transform faults.
Oh, and those ultra-deep under-the-salt-weld drilling operations in the gulf just below Lake Peigneur.

Something exciting going on in each of those fault belts.

MORE on the 2006 GOM big earthquake –

• Wikipedia – 2006 Gulf of Mexico earthquake
• National Geographic – Rare Earthquake Shakes Gulf of Mexico
• USGS report

short link –  http://wp.me/p2GNDM-2VS