I've known this for many years. Why this is "new" I have no clue.
Michael Farmer > On Aug 29, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Jim Wooddell via Meteorite-list > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Bob and all! > > When I first got into meteorites, I was shocked people were still talking > about is as some kind of > magical thing that hadn't been figured out! > I think all this does is re-affirm what many already knew. I did not take it > as anything new at all! > I know of the work a few of you did about a decade ago, but ice rafting has > been known for decades. > Disappointed that this made it "official" as it's been official in my mind > for years and years....not to mention a video I posted about a year or more > ago of ice sheets that were carrying rocks slamming > into the shore in heavy winds. But whatever. I would still contend wind and > water, without the need for ice, can do the same thing. Anyone who has tried > to walk across a moist (almost muddy) dry lake knows how slippery they become! > The power water and wind has is amazing! > > I get a kick of the giant rock ice-rafting picture!! > > http://www.fvalk.com/images/Arctic/1991/Rock%20conveyor.jpg > > Jim > > > > > > >> On 8/29/2014 10:53 AM, Robert Verish via Meteorite-list wrote: >> 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. > > -- > Jim Wooddell > [email protected] > http://pages.suddenlink.net/chondrule/ > > ______________________________________________ > > 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
