Posted on 07/02/2008 3:27:51 PM PDT by blam
Comet Theory Collides With Clovis Research, May Explain Disappearance of Ancient People
When Obama! is POTus and the DNC is in full possession of both houses, we’ll get laws passed that protect us all from esplodin space things!!
General/Chat/Science/Astronomy is ideal for this topic, and your others.
This is new, news.
So this interglacial being the longest of the last five could be due to a premature exploding-asteroid thaw?
So is Paris Hilton dropping her pants. Everything is news if you think about it that way. On FR we have categories.
The "mother load" seems to have been a deposit of some sort on top of the Bradford Woods ridge (in Morgan county), another large deposit on top of the second highest elevation in the region called Mt. Nebo, and the highest called Weed Patch Hill (all in Brown county).
Early miners simply tossed shovel loads of soil off the side of the hill and the rain would wash off the lighter materials and the heavier stuff would eventually slide down the hill where it could be readily extracted through very simple mechanical means.
They didn't need to use cyanide in this process.
The fact that so much of the lode was on the tops of hills led early researchers to assume the glaciers, which stopped near here repeatedly through many ice ages, left the diamonds and gold as they retreated.
At the same time Mt. Nebo and Weed Patch Hill were NOT inundated by ice. The valleys in the formations in Brown County were cut by running water, not ice. There turns out to be little glacial till even half way up these shale hills.
Further South in Jackson and Clark counties, where there were glacial hills called "knobs", there were little or no deposits of gold and diamond. Closest thing to that were the fools gold (iron pyrate) and native copper deposits that could be found in the early pioneer period.
Folks who'd observed the anamolous distribution of the loot wondered if maybe it hadn't just been dropped out of the sky!
Here, you'd have low trajectory diamond laden ejecta raining down on hills, valleys and everywhere in between.
As the great glaciers melted at the end of the Younger Dyras, they created a massive river that worked its way back and forth across Indiana for several thousand years destroying all in its path. The only places that weren't washed away were the tops of the shale hills, and that's right where the gold, silver, diamonds and other neat stuff was found.
Here is my posting history:
You've posted a total of 11,104 threads and 59,606 replies.
I've always posted this way, year after year, made dollar-a-day donations and not fought with anyone. Why have you chosen to harrass me now? Do you want me to leave FR?
BTW, as DeSoto made his advance from Mobile Bay North to Terre Haute in 1541 the Indians he encountered correctly pointed toward this particular deposit of diamonds and gold.
They didn't lie to him.
In the end he sent out an expedition from his base in Terre Haute to travel overland toward what today you might call Cincinatti. They missed the gold and diamonds by 5 miles or so yet they did find the small native copper deposit.
Blam, I think she thinks you’re a “newbie”! (bwahahahahaha!)
Yeah, but not nuclear missiles as that kind of defensive weapon is aggressive.
I believe that puts me several thousand replies behind Blam.
By now I suspect he and I know the difference between "news" that really is "news", and the sort of stuff you might dig up in National Inquirer about Paris Hilton (gag, what a skank) and force us to scroll on by.
In the future if you wish to reference one of the Hollywood braintrust folks in an effort to chasten us please use Lindsay Lohan. She has some Class A picture spreads ~ in the meantime, back to further recent discoveries of why the rocks are piled up the way they are in Indiana.
This is hardly one of those Leftwingtard EMO blogs where that's the name of the game.
You may very well not appreciate the "news" value here, but it is "news" in all the right circles.
Imagine that, after you doing the same. The only difference here is, I can pull my own replies.
Do you want me to leave FR?
F*** NO! You stay here! Many Freepers enjoy your posts. Keep'm coming!
Fascinating. Thanks for posting this.
You may not appreciate this, but the few remaining scientists here will. Or you trying to drive the last of us away too?
This post deals with finally answering a question that has been bugging archaeologists and prehistorians, not to mention glacial geologists and a lot of other specialists, for decades.
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