NZ soil/rainwater analysis

[hemi]

Clare Swinney, New Zealand's doyen of 'chemtrail' activism, has posted some soil and rainwater lab test results that have been sent into her...

http://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.c...-chemtrailing/

Anyone with some knowledge of these things care to share some light on the results?

[Jay Reynolds]

Sample Type: RAINWATER FROM NELSON
Lab Number: 997431.1
Total Aluminium g/m3 0.54 – - – -540 ug/L
Total Arsenic g/m3 0.0021 – - – - 21 ug/L
Total Barium g/m3 0.066 – - – - 66 ug/L
Total Strontium g/m3 0.099 – - – 99 ug/L

These look about average. Aluminum is the ubiquitous signal for crustal elements. This matches averages from the 60's and 70's pretty closely.
http://metabunk.org/threads/135-Chem...-rain-and-snow

SOIL-
Total Recoverable Aluminium mg/kg dry wt 13,700 – - – - 1.37 % fairly low aluminum

Ah, I see this is a coastal location, Motueka, explains a lot about the strontium being higher than barium, strontium is slightly elevated in seawater, and marine areas have rain strongly influenced by marine aerosols.

[scombrid]

Regarding strontium in seawater. Strontium to Calcium ratios in fish otoliths is one way that biologists can infer migration timing of anadromous fish from rivers to the sea because the sea water is enriched with strontium relative to rivers. (anadromous fish lay eggs in rivers and the juveniles live for some time in the river before entering the sea). Elements present in the water are incorporated into bony structures relative to ambient concentrations so there is a distinct mark when a fish migrates from the river to the sea. Beyond that, strontium exists in rivers to varying degrees because of geology and you can infer from the amount of strontium relative to other elements from what river a fish caught at sea was hatched. This is useful to biologists when fish of a given species born from say St. Johns River Florida and the James River, Virginia etc... are mixing with fish of the same species from the Hudson, Connecticut, and so on in the ocean and they are subject to harvest together in the open ocean. It helps managers figure out which stocks are getting harvested the most. Beyond that utility, I'm just emphasizing in this thread that those elements occur in nature and are well known to scientists of multiple disciplines to the extent that biologists use the concentrations of various elements and their isotopes as natural "tags" of fish when funding is sufficient to screen for such. Chemtrail fanatics haven't demonstrated samples that exceed known concentrations.

[Jay Reynolds]

I've noticed that usually areas nearest the sea have higher strontium, and areas nearest deserts or basins have higher barium in the rainwater because the local lithography of those areas. Marine strontium also differs from geological strontium in the ratio of its isotopes and has been used to track the source inputs of elements in soils:

http://books.google.com/books?id=4fZ...ratios&f=false

[hemi]

Another from Clare's mob...

http://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.c...ntium-present/

Al: 0.0065 g/m3
Ba: 0.0087 g/m3
Sr: <0.00053 g/m3 (ie. below the default detection limit).

So, even lower levels than the previous lab results.

[MikeC]

we seem to be posting about the same stuff!

http://metabunk.org/threads/1407-Mor...ot-New-Zealand

[hemi]

we seem to be posting about the same stuff!

http://metabunk.org/threads/1407-Mor...ot-New-Zealand

Indeed. I had the same thoughts about the strontium levels too: non-existent, or just very very low.

But, as per usual, it's all 'proof of geo-engineering' for them, despite the low levels involved. Sigh.