It's JOKE, MIke! For crying out loud! And a reminder that you cannot always believe what you read on the internet especially in "forums".
Thanks to Jerry, I have seen the note that was published so long ago. Here is what happened: My report on the fast-growing halite formations (mostly stalactites) in the underground workings in mines east of Carlsbad, New Mexico, was initially presented, along with all the interesting photographs, at the Winter technical meeting of the Southwest Region of the NSS at Carlsbad, New Mexico, on December 6, 1966. An abstract (without illustrations) was printed in the Southwestern Cavers in the January-February issue, page 12, 1987. During my oral presentation, I facetiously referred to some of these deposits as "halite-tites". I did, also facetiously, refer to these things as "halite-tites" in my recent posts on these forums. Anyone who thinks this makes them citable scientific references badly misunderstands the way science, and scientific nomenclature, is done. DirtDoc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Queen" <jmofgu...@gmail.com> To: "John" <j...@losalamos.com> Cc: "Mark Minton" <mmin...@illinoisalumni.org>, "swrcavers@googlegroups com" <swrcav...@googlegroups.com>, "texascavers list" <texascavers@texascavers.com> Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2018 8:21:29 AM Subject: Re: [SWR CAVERS] Re: Halitetites speculations on terminology: In some ways, speleology is now in an evolutionary state, much as biology was in the early 18th century. Faced with a myriad of different things, they struggled to which diverse characteristics were the most important, and which were less critical. Order was eventually brought from chaos by the Linnean (binomial) system of classification. Since then there has been a general split between taxonomists who see all sorts of differences as significant and warrantling new names (splitters), -------- Snip All well-intended, but BLAH,BLAH, BALH!!!!!
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