texascavers Digest 25 Apr 2011 15:22:08 -0000 Issue 1296
Topics (messages 17646 through 17649):
Re: fires
17646 by: Karen Perry
OT - back from the Sierra Tarahumara
17647 by: dirtdoc.comcast.net
USGS Karst Interst Group Proceedings
17648 by: tbsamsel.verizon.net
Re: new mars sinkhole photo
17649 by: John P Brooks
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From: Karen Perry <[email protected]>
Subject: fires
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Date: Monday, April 25, 2011, 3:32 AM
Sorry about the quality. The movement is from the high wilnd & not me.
Karen
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Monday about 9 AM
Back from four days in the Sierra Tarahumara with the Mexican Consulate in
Presidio and the Tourist officials from the State of Chihuahua. Safe trip,
Great Trip, Great stories. We, along with San Antonio cavers Alan Montemayor
and Cheryl Hamilton, were fortunate to score such a wonderful VIP Trip with a
small group of Americans and Mexicans. Rode the train from Chihuahua City
to a spot south of Divisidero. The state, using funds from both state and
national tourism bureaus just opened (last October) huge 50-passanger tram
across part of the Barranca del Cobre. You can see the Rio Urique in the
bottom of the canyon. Later got down to the Barranca del Sinforosa on the Rio
Verde south of Guachochi. The Barranca del Sinforosa is larger and more
spectacular (True!!) than the canyon along the Urique that you see from
Divisidero - and still essentially undeveloped. Spent Good Friday celebrating
Easter with the Raramuri (swift runners) people - Tarahumara is the language,
Raramuri are the people. About the strangest "Christian" set of ceremonies I
have ever witnessed. We were welcomed and not treated as intruders. In the
remote town of Norogachi SE of Creel.
More later. Back to Terlingua last night - 2:30 AM this morning. Just
getting functional for the day. Send me an email if you would like a more
complete description of the trip and I'll send it along after I write it. I
have to get back to our unexpectedly interrupted construction project in
Terlingua, first.
DirtDoc
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I just posted this on our office bibliography page(s). Thought some of you might have an interest.
T
Kuniansky, E.L., 2011, U.S. Geological Survey Karst Interest Group Proceedings, Fayetteville, Arkansas, April 26–29, 2011: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5031, 212 p.
Online copies of the proceedings are available at http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/karst/ or at..
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2011/5031/
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If you zoom in....There are actually 4 "parallel lines" visible in the
"sinkole". Maybe they rigged it for a spring Caver / Naturefest party on Mars.
--- On Sun, 4/24/11, David <[email protected]> wrote:
From: David <[email protected]>
Subject: [Texascavers] Re: new mars sinkhole photo
To: "Cavers Texas" <[email protected]>
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, April 24, 2011, 3:53 PM
If you look closely at the floor of the sinkhole, there are two
parallel lines running across the sinkole
http://www.astroengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/hirise_esp_011386_2065_cut-250x250.jpg
My best guess is the former cavers that were there rigged tyroleans,
using one for filming. And due to lack of
time or oxygen, they had to leave the pit rigged.
If you download that image and zoom in, you can see the ropes are
clearly above the floor of the cave, maybe
by at least 100 feet.
David Locklear
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