sink hole...
Posted on 09/24/2008 9:06:47 AM PDT by Justice Department
(Is this for real or photo-shopped, or do you know?)
At any rate--hysterical!
sink hole...
Glacial Pothole, Switzerland.
“(Is this for real or photo-shopped, or do you know?)”
Which photo? Doesn’t matter. If it’s on the web it’s gotta be real:-)
“Urban center, close to shopping, mass transit, features swimming pool...”
You know what made that sink hole don't you?
And they didn't do that in, like, 1966?
pothole broken in half, earthquake? Niagara Escarpment.
Thats an interesting feature. I’m not sure what the geological name is but odds are its something I’ve seen before.
Sometimes when you habe an area where water runs over the bedrock, a small pebble or boulder can kind of get “stuck” at or near a low point.
As time goes on, it slowly moves around, and as it moves, the friction wears down the spot it’s in, so it gets deeper and deeper.
There’s a place in a river canyon about twenty miles from me where the bedrock is littered with these holes - some maybe only five inches wide and eight inches deep - some large enough you can climb down into!
Glacial Striations
Crescentric Gouges
Glacial Grooves
OK. I grew up in western NY and can show you other places where there are the glacial grooves in the bedrock (bedrock mostly shale in central western NY). (near the salt mines)
Evidence for Multiple Glacial Advances and Ice Loading From a Buried Valley in Southern Manhattan
http://www.geo.sunysb.edu/lig/Conferences/abstracts06/moss-06.htm
“Glacial Grooves “
Icelandic rock band?
What you describe sounds a lot like Ausable Chasm in upper New York state. Found those little holes quite fascinating.
That’s a beautiful area. I grew up in western NY and went to college in Albany, so am pretty familiar with the Adirondacks and the Hudson river and Mohawk river valleys.
Don’t miss the humidity at all.
Or the two or three feet of snow.
Or the -12 degrees in January.
But I do miss the trees, especially this time of year, or in two weeks or so.
The Berkshires. Boston and the Cape. Lake George.
Lotta good stuff back there. NY will always feel like home to me, even though now I’ve spent more than half my life on the west coast.
LA’s fine but, it ain’t home
NY’s home but, it ain’t mine no more.
Please forgive me but I’ve slept and am suffering brian freeze.
When I saw the title I immediately thought of that old woman journalist who looks like grandpa munster. (What is her name anyway?)
Helen Thomas
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