[Rockhounds] Question? (ice sheet pressure & stuff)

[Earl R. Verbeek]

Ohhhh Pete did you ever strike a nerve!  I agree wholeheartedly with your
detestation (if that's a word) of pascals instead of kilobars.  I still
think in terms of kilobars and can relate to that unit quite easily when I
think about depths within the Earth, but pascals, I'm lost.  For similar
reasons I don't like Hertz either (guess we're showing our age....).

         Cheers!   Earl

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:54:04 -0500, pmodreski at aol.com wrote:
> 
> And one last comment--just about physics terminology--as you'll see, I
had
> to quote pressure in megapascals up above, because that's the way things
> are given; pascals are the "official" standard international unit of
> pressure now used in the scientific literature.? And the bottom line is,
I
> HATE THOSE STUPID UNITS WITH A PASSION!