Posted on 09/07/2008 6:57:55 PM PDT by baynut
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.
The morning began with a brief but vigorous argument - call it a discussion - in the hotel lobby.
The breakfast table was loaded with road maps, Google Earth printouts and colorful elevation images intended to help the three researchers locate a curious landscape feature. They were hunting for slight depressions in the earth, dimples almost invisible at ground level but so striking from the air that, for a number of years, they captivated the entire country.
Scientists in the mid-1900s devoted careers to their study, debated furiously in print, were celebrated, vilified, laughed at and honored, all in an attempt to explain what gouged out half a million shallow divots along the East Coast.
I see. Well, there does appear to be a good deal of evidence of at least some really big glaciers over most of Canada and northern parts of the US. You know, the gouges, scrapes and stuff? But now that you mention it, there doesn't seem to be much in the oral histories or myths does there??? Anyway...
Think of all the evidence there is regarding adjustments to calenders worldwide.
I'm not up to speed on the calendar business, so I'll hafta do some digging to see what I can see.
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1973/JASA12-73Steinhauer.html
Good read; thanks for that.
That's right.
> Best guess is that it's an artifact left over from the uplift of the Appalachians. Pure guess though.
I've considered that, but I would have expected such an artifact to be much more linear.
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Follow the links; in particular 133A and 135A. Good hunting.
Looks that way, but I still wonder if the more modern soils are on top of something really ancient.
Thanks for the link.
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