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----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne White" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 12:01 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 34951] Re: Hello Everyone!! > > Did they ever get that fellow it fell on from underneath? :-) > > Wayne > > Paul McCool wrote: >> Stone mountain may be a larger hunk of rock, but it isn't free-standing, >> nor >> is Ayres Rock. They are both monolithic and only partially exposed. >> Giant >> rock is completely exposed as it sits on the desert floor. Giant Rock >> broke >> about ten years ago, shedding a chunk the size of a large bus. The break >> was caused by thermal stress from repeated campfires under a large >> overhang >> on its south side. I've attached before and after pics. Sadly, the >> pristine white of the break has since been defaced with spray paint, >> motor >> oil, and a coat of bright red paint, applied by some "artist" from L.A. >> >> Paul M. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "James Hairston" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:11 PM >> Subject: [Papermodels II 34932] Re: Hello Everyone!! >> >> >> >> Theirs also Stone Mountain Georgia. >> It's a single granite rock I understand. >> >> Jim >> >> James J. Hairston >> 8559 Birch Creek Rd. >> Keller Tx. 76248 >> H: (817) 337-4183; E-Mail: [email protected] >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On >> Behalf Of Paul McCool >> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:27 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Papermodels II 34919] Re: Hello Everyone!! >> >> >> Giant Rock is the world's largest free-standing boulder in the world. >> Located next to Spy Mountain in Landers, California, this stony behemoth >> is >> seven stories high and covers 5800 square feet. >> >> For those who are wondering, "But isn't Ayers Rock in Australia the >> biggest? That's another huge rock, but it is not free standing. A >> sedimentary rock, Ayers is partially, if not mostly, buried. >> >> Geologists consider Giant Rock to be an "erratic" deposited during the >> last >> Ice Age." It is estimated to be 65 and 135 million years old. >> >> When the rock split in February, 2000, its interior was discovered to be >> gleaming white granite. >> >> Ayres Rock is actually the second largest monolithic rock in the world. >> And, yes, your desert is worse. I like ours. <VBG> >> >> Paul M. >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mandy F" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:58 PM >> Subject: [Papermodels II 34917] Re: Hello Everyone!! >> >> >>> Hang on.. I thought WE had the biggest rock? And we have our own >>> desert. >>> Worse than yours. ;) >>> >>> .... McCool... desert.. hmmmm >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Paul McCool" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 2:16 PM >>> Subject: [Papermodels II 34914] Re: Hello Everyone!! >>> >>> >>>> I'm not jealous of the Aussies. My desert is just as nice to look at >>>> as >>>> their Outback, and we have bigger rocks.<VBG> >>>> >>>> Paul M. >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "John" <[email protected]> >>>> To: "Papermodels II" <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:40 PM >>>> Subject: [Papermodels II 34913] Re: Hello Everyone!! >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hey--not everybody on this list is from Oz--just some of the more >>>>> important ones. Those of us elsewhere are sometimes jealous. >>>>> >>>>> John Freeman >>>>> Vancouver Island >>>>> Canada >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > > -- > Universal Health Care...NOW! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
