Hey Bob/Rob/list; I was just about to post that Bob explained that as the probable reason to me about 15 yrs ago!
- Art > On Aug 29, 2014, at 1:26 PM, "Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > Yes -- it's nice to have vindication that the theory we (you, Nick Gessler, > Paul Gessler and I) > published 12 years ago was the right one! > > http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2002/pdf/5263.pdf > > http://meteorite-recovery.tripod.com/2006/mar06.htm > > --Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Meteorite-list [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Robert Verish via Meteorite-list > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 10:53 AM > To: Meteorite Mailing List > Subject: [meteorite-list] Ice-rafted rocks on "dry-lakes" > > It's now official. We can stop calling them "sailing stones". New video > shows that playa rocks are being barged across the lakebed. > Apparently, wind-driven, floating sheets of ice are dragging or pushing the > rocks leaving their "tracks" in the wet lakebed sediment. > > Photos in the article show tracks of rocks that make tight turns and circle > back into the direction from which they had come. This shows that, in these > cases, the rocks are locked into the ice-sheet. > http://images.realclear.com/256104_5_.jpg > > Bob V. > > Information (and sources) forward for archival purposes: > > ----------- Forward Text ----------- > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 7:51:48 -0400 > From: "Paul H." > To: Rockhounds List > Subject: [Rockhounds] ?Sailing Stones? of Death Valley Mystery Solved > > Mystery Solved: ?Sailing Stones? of Death Valley Seen in Action for the First > Time (Thin sheets of ice push rocks across the desert when conditions are > just right. > Scripps Institution of Oceanography > https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/mystery-solved-sailing-stones-death-valley-seen-action-first-time?hash=3f42fa4a60340630b1fde436c4f177fe > > > Mystery Of Death Valley's 'Sailing Stones' Has Finally Been Solved by Ryan > Grenoble The Huffington Post, August 27, 2014 > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/27/death-valley-sailing-stones-solved_n_5718827.html > > > Mystery solved: The sailing stones of Death Valley by Michelle Starr, CNET, > August 27, 2014 > http://www.cnet.com/news/mystery-solved-the-sailing-stones-of-death-valley/ > > Finally! Secret of Death Valley?s ?Sailing Stones? Is Solved by Carl > Engelking, Discover Magazine, Aug. 27, 2014 > http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/08/27/secret-behind-death-valleys-sailing-stones-revealed/ > > > The paper is: Norris, J. D., J. M. Norris, R. D. Lorenz, J. Ray, and B. > Jackson, 2014, Sliding Rocks on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park: > First Observation of > Rocks in Motion. PLOS ONE. 9(8): e105948. > doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105948 > http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105948 > > Yours, Paul H. > -------------- > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
