Also, a few turns before the crash I had a couple instances of buildings / units being invisible on the cloth map -- an old issue. Usually when that happens I exit and start again, because it always seems to be a sign of bad things to come.
crash zip file http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8928343/Elemental1_2b-2011-06-11T07-39-10-109.zip
debug.err http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8928343/debug.err
last save game http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8928343/AutoSave.EleSav from about 10 min before