Posted on 01/10/2006 2:47:01 PM PST by blam
I read about that in Sports Illustrated.
The dam was taken out by an errant stone hurled during that year's national curling championships.
Caused one helluva mess.
Darn socialist government banned curling and the Canucks had to play with much smaller stones called "pucks".
you can see the groves in the rocks in the exposed bedrock in Central Park and the Bronx Zoo....
the one in Idaho/Washington produced the scab lands...quite an event.
I thought it was fascinating, and there was a good bit of information that I didn't know. But I kept waiting for the global warming lesson and I wasn't disappointed. As my wife said, the "little ice age" must have been caused by all the coal burning factories they had in the 1200s.
Come and see my stromatolite formation that is even bigger than the "famous" petrified gardens in Saratoga...
(and it's a 1/2 million years older)
The last time I was out in Alberta I took a tour in the Canadian Rockies, and the tour guide described a recent hike up into the mountains. He said he found sea shells and other signs of ocean creatures near the top of one of the mountains -- 12,000 feet above sea level.
The top of Mt. Everest is marine limestone, formed at the bottom of an ancient ocean that used to exist between India and Asia.
You may be describing the same event as the article...
Possibly -- except the article describes water flowing north into Hudson Bay, instead of south into the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River.
Junk science.
In far southern Oregon, on Interstate 5, at the peak of Ashland pass, they had blasted oout about 200 feet of rock on both sides of the road.
It is sedimentary, and if you go about twenty miles south, you get into the slates and igneous stuff near Shasta.
I saw some odd forms in the rock layers one day and busted them out.
They are roots. Petrified roots in the rock layers.
At 4400 feet. And still rising.
Why did these geniuses not explain the source of the "global warming" and "galcial melting" that accounted for the data they claim to explain? Or did rundy just miss them detailing the fact that the inhabitants of the North American continent 8200 years ago had gone berzerk on their air polluting snow mobiles, SUV's and industrial factories spewing out tons of pollutants...blah, blah, blah.
The fact this happend NATURALLY thousands of years ago does not provide this brain children a clue that what is happening now might just be "due to" NATURAL events, not man's (mankind's) doings.
I expell a great big
ICE AGE!!!!
I can't tell if it's junk science because it's what happened in a cartoon movie for children, or if cartoon movies for children suddenly have become more impressive since they beat science to the punch.......
At 33 degrees you get rain. At 32 degrees you get snow. A large accumulation of snow reflects sunlight and further lowers the temperature. The difference between "normal" and "ice age" is often as little as 7 degrees. The key issue is whether more snow falls and accumulates vs melting off. A steady accumulation, even at a slow rate, is the mark of an ice age.
Missoula lake. The flooding created the scab lands in Washington state. Apparently it broke and reformed several times.
I believe that's also how the Wisconsin Dells were formed.
Has Pat Robertson blamed anyone for this disaster?
It's not the coldness of the winter that makes ice ages, it's whether the summer is warm/long enough to melt the winters' accumulations.
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