Hi - I seem to remember seeing the entire flats under water a few years back.
If so, and meteorites would have sunk below the surface. I don't have the foggiest clue how deep, maybe someone could work it out... My guess is that nonethelss this may be a good hunting spot, but only with a metal detector... And then you'd have to dig through the salt to get a recovery... but still... ep --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It was over 100 degrees. The sky was bare-blue, as > only a Utah sky can be, and > the salt flats were as great mirrors, blinking back > at the face of the sun. > There I was, sure as sure that I could walk out on > the eye-blinding sea of salt > and harvest dark rocks from the sky as one would do > on the arctic ice. I set > out briskly, hearing the salt crystals crunch under > my feet, pausing > periodically to skan the gleaming expanse with my > binoculars. My heart > skipped. There were all kinds of little dark > patches out there. Naive me > thought that all I had to do was scoop 'em > up....treasures from the heaven's. > Yeah, right! Dried up grasshoppers unfortunate > enough to fall on the scorching > surface of this saline hotplate, and little gems of > feces of some sort...not > exactly what I was looking for. But The rugged > beauty of miles of white > beneath that turquoise sky, and the bare mountains > in the distance drew me > further and further out into the great expanse of > NACL2, and kept me chasing > little dark spots for hours. OOPS! I realized that > I had to walk back to my > little Toyota Tacoma which was now miles behind me, > and He**! it was hot! Thank > whatever, (goodness or God or such.) that I'm in > good shape and not yet > dehydrayed! I hoofed it full-stride, dripping with > sweat, all the way back to > the Toyota...not realizing that I was being observed > by tourists at the rest- > stop where I had parked. Yup, there was a group of > guys just waiting for me so > they could see just what a REAL NUT looked like. > "Mister! What's on your > mind?", came the inquisitive voice of one of the > onlookers. "Why, NOTHING." I > answered. "only an IDIOT would be walking out there > on a day like this." He > stood stunned and speechless as I walked back to my > Toy and downed my entire > gallon of springwater. Happy hunting, Rand Kluge > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
