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West US cave with fossil secrets to be excavated
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| July 24, 2014
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Posted on 07/27/2014 1:48:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I remember a kid in Colorado ORVing and he jumped a hill-right into a mine shaft.
A friend of mine did the same in New Mexico, he landed in an irrigation ditch full of water.
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07/27/2014 3:26:12 PM PDT
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Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
To: SunkenCiv
Daily Mail article about an expedition that will soon be exploring the Death Trap. Got this link from the bottom of the blog posted in reply number 8 by TigersEye.
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07/27/2014 3:26:21 PM PDT
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upchuck
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
To: sauropod
Marble (Marvel) cave in Silver Dollar City Mo is built kind of like it. An opening at the top and it widens out to a large room that was once filled with guano (bat poo).
To save on rope one man were executed by throwing him into the cavern.
Done been cleaned out and is open to the paying public.
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07/27/2014 3:31:24 PM PDT
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Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
His last supper I expect. What a way to go.
The Natural Trap Cave in WY makes me wonder how many big voids exist under the mountains that have no connecting shaft to the outside. Generally I think of the ground under me here in the Rockies as solid rock. But it obviously isn't entirely solid.
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07/27/2014 3:36:09 PM PDT
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TigersEye
("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
To: upchuck
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07/27/2014 4:21:32 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Very interesting. It arouses couriosity as to what they'll find.
"...the planet's last glacial period..."
Also interesting. There are patches of ice on many of the peaks seen through windows here. At this late date in summer, they're not going to melt before more snowfall and spraying ice this fall or sooner.
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07/27/2014 4:46:41 PM PDT
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familyop
("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" - -Deacon character, "Waterworld")
To: SunkenCiv
Meachen hopes the remains are sufficiently preserved in the cold, sheltered environment to contain snippets of genetic information.Great. Then they'll be 'repopulating' dire wolves and smilodon
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07/27/2014 7:01:42 PM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
I could go for a smilodon (in zoos), not so much dire wolves or short-faced bear. :’)
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07/27/2014 7:06:42 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: familyop
If the roof gave way sufficiently long ago, there could be stratified layers with intervening soil & rock.
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07/27/2014 7:09:45 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Bernard Marx
La Brea Tar Pits I was surprised that the tar pits were in an area of less than five acres and the digging was primarily around 50 feet by 50 feet straight down only another 50 feet. The most interesting were the skeletons that were reconstructed in the lab and on display.
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