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After 4 Years, The Cause of this Incredible Sand Geyser is Still a Mystery (Video)
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| 10/3/10
| Chuck Wolk
Posted on 10/03/2010 12:38:12 PM PDT by OneVike
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Any expert geologists out there that can shed some light on a mystery that has gone unsolved for over 4 years? If anyone has any theories that could help explain the phenomenon, then please share them with me and I will add them to my list.
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posted on
10/03/2010 12:38:19 PM PDT
by
OneVike
To: OneVike
It’s Bush’s fault, of course
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posted on
10/03/2010 12:39:53 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(What is the difference between 0bama and his dog, Bo? Bo has papers.)
To: OneVike
I saw the movie. Never, ever disturb the mummies tomb.
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posted on
10/03/2010 12:42:38 PM PDT
by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: OneVike
Strikes me as simple. Sample and test the air for gases and air born particulates.....but wait, they dont have the technology for that!
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posted on
10/03/2010 12:42:45 PM PDT
by
OneVike
(Just a Christian waiting to go home)
To: OneVike
Strike a match near it and see what happens....probably sand driven by a natural gas vent.
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posted on
10/03/2010 12:44:03 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
To: JRios1968
Just as in a water fountain, the sand is being recycled ...
Please note that the sand isn’t building up.
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posted on
10/03/2010 12:44:24 PM PDT
by
OldNavyVet
(One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years)
To: OneVike
We need to consult ALGORE!
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posted on
10/03/2010 12:44:32 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
To: OldNavyVet
Yes, I noticed and many have pointed that fact out through the years. However, it still does not explain it because the experts have no agreed that it is water of even liquid.
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posted on
10/03/2010 12:47:02 PM PDT
by
OneVike
(Just a Christian waiting to go home)
To: OneVike
Off to watch the video.
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posted on
10/03/2010 12:47:11 PM PDT
by
listenhillary
(A very simple fix to our dilemma - We need to reward the makers instead of the takers)
To: IrishCatholic
Probably a mummie fart. Maybe just bad gas.
Throw a match to it, light her up!
To: OneVike
Kind of looks like ET’s head there at the top of the sand plume.
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posted on
10/03/2010 12:48:47 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Current count of friends who have abandoned Obama: 11)
To: Michael.SF.
Funny, I actually though along the same line. However, I still lean towards the making of the Mummy movies, and the evil Pharaoh is coming for the Royal Family....
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posted on
10/03/2010 12:51:29 PM PDT
by
OneVike
(Just a Christian waiting to go home)
To: OneVike
These sand geysers occurred during the New Madrid earthquakes.
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posted on
10/03/2010 12:59:37 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: OneVike
Spice blow. Any sand trout about afterwards...??
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posted on
10/03/2010 1:04:28 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Now what kind of a geroo are you anyway?)
To: Farmer Dean
When was that, because one of the theories is that it was a phenomenon called a "Sand blow". or "Sand Volcano".
This is something that occurs (usually after an earthquake) when an Intense seismic shaking causes the sediments that are loose to change from a solid to liquid (not literally), due to the the pressure of the seismic shaking. This opens up gaps between the clay. A fracture occurs through the loose sediment that causes an upward flow of sand to fly out of the ground that looks like a geyser.
However, there were no earthquakes nor tremors anywhere near the region before this occurred.
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posted on
10/03/2010 1:04:28 PM PDT
by
OneVike
(Just a Christian waiting to go home)
To: Bean Counter
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posted on
10/03/2010 1:05:22 PM PDT
by
OneVike
(Just a Christian waiting to go home)
To: OneVike; cogitator; neverdem
How long (how many days) did it blow?
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posted on
10/03/2010 1:07:48 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: OneVike
In order for the sand to be expelled it needs a gaseous driver. Saudi practices CO2 gas reinjection in order to maintain reservoir integrity. Analyze the driver gas and I would not be surprised that it is mere CO2. Probably just a gas leak from the formation.
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posted on
10/03/2010 1:08:25 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(ISLAM will end America's Constitution.)
To: OneVike
Saudi Arabia is the @$$hole of the world, and Mother Earth has gas.
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posted on
10/03/2010 1:10:11 PM PDT
by
Malacoda
(CO(NH2)2 on OBAMA.)
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