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To: Alas Babylon!
Wetumpka is the sound the rock made when it hit.
Screwed that up.

12 posted on 01/30/2019 9:08:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv

http://www.auburn.edu/~kingdat/wetumpkawebpage3.htm#one

From Dr. King’s web page:

The town in Elmore County, Alabama, giving its name to the Wetumpka impact crater took its unusual-sounding name from a term in the Creek native people’s language: Awe-tum-cau@ which is derived from the union of Awe-wau@ (water) and Atumcau@ (rumbling; Read, 1984). Thus in Creek language, Wetumpka means Arumbling water,@ or alternatively Asounding or tumbling water.

These names are not entirely inappropriate for an impact crater that probably formed in shallow Gulf waters during the Late Cretaceous.


14 posted on 01/31/2019 6:15:48 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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