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To: ko_kyi; SunkenCiv; Quix
Can you get grants from the Fed for this kind of study?

Only if you are a Giant Pygmy.

No, really, people. I have a lot of interest in volcanic activity. I live not so far from Yellowstone, as the crow flies. Used to live right by The Craters of the Moon. My Uncle was up visiting and decided we needed to go out on the lava flow to check it out. I told him it was a bad idea. Weren't too far out, a couple of miles, when he realized what a bad idea it was. Kept giving me crap about letting him talk me into it. Figured we would need a helicopter rescue. Just so incredibly rough and tumbled. Jagged rocks. Found some really cool bands of orange and black obsidian. One was 2 feet thick. Then there are the buttes. The big southern butte is a favorite launch site for hang gliders. The other 2 are on the INL and restricted, one is full of teletowers,but if you go out when they have sheep grazing you can climb the middle one. Just tell the guys with the m-16s you are looking for lost sheep. I laugh when I see the bags of lava rock they sell for bar-b-cues. Buy it? It's everywhere. And it is always fun to go after agate nodules that have eroded out of the older rhyolite in Custer county.

Pic of The Big Southern Butte.

Pic of the Craters of the Moon. Some rough stuff to try and crawl around on.

In all fairness the subject matter is interesting. The person (can't call them a writer and it's worse if I try author) who assembled the verbiage of the article is a Giant Pygmy.

There was a particular flow out where we were farming (by the Craters) that had the nicest blue precipitate on it (blue on black). I fondly called it the blue dragon.

17 posted on 06/19/2010 3:22:51 PM PDT by bigheadfred (I said free association. Not freely associate.)
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To: bigheadfred

INTERESTING.

THANKS.


18 posted on 06/19/2010 3:29:36 PM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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