Mar 10th, 2017: Grime’s Graves

[footfootfoot]

I wonder if the Gypsum in Nova Scotia is related to the White cliffs of Dover? Were they once attached at the lip, as it were, back in the Pangaea days?

[DanaC]

The cliffs themselves were formed at the same time as the Strait of Dover, by ice-age floods.
The cliffs are mainly soft white chalk with a very fine-grained texture, composed primarily of coccoliths, plates of calcium carbonate formed by coccolithophores, single-celled planktonic algae whose skeletal remains sank to the bottom of the ocean during the Cretaceous and, together with the remains of bottom-living creatures, formed sediments. Flint and quartz are also found in the chalk.[8] White cliffs like those of Dover are also found on the Danish islands of Møn and Langeland and the island of Rügen in Germany. The chalk cliffs of the Alabaster Coast of Normandy, France, are part of the same geological system as Dover's cliffs.

[SPUCK]

Mima Mounds



Flint house? Doesn't flint give off a pungent smell when it gets wet?

[BigV]

Did you just call Flint a dog?!

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, he called him a smelly wet one.

[footfootfoot]

Well. there you have it. Near where I once lived in CT, there is a rock outcropping right next to the street that has been identified as having its other half in Africa.

http://www.cttrips.com/pages/ctgeotrips51905.html

http://chriswoodside.com/does-bit-africa-sit-deep-river

A rock outcropping next to the town's ball field marks the spot where two continents crashed together 250 million years ago. When the land masses began to pull apart again, a hunk of what might have become Africa remained clinging to North America. Deep River is one of the few places where the ''suture line'' can be viewed.
For a long time, millions of years, in fact, the suture was not visible. Then, a few years ago, a Boy Scout troop and the Deep River Land Trust joined to dig a trench across the central part of the rock ledge, which is right along Route 154 at the entrance to Devitt Field. They removed several inches of dirt that had been deposited on top of most of the ridge during the last Ice Age about 18,000 years ago. When they were done, a band of rock lay exposed.

Did not pee there, however.

[Flint]

Hey!

[SPUCK]

snicker

[xoxoxoBruce]

A rock outcropping next to the town's ball field marks the spot where two continents crashed together 250 million years ago. When the land masses began to pull apart again, a hunk of what might have become Africa remained clinging to North America.

Nice try, but the Earth is only 7,000 years old.

[footfootfoot]

:snort:

[SPUCK]

Alternative Facts...

[BigV]

How quaint. In Washington, we call this a summit, often found near mountains, sometimes in the presence of trails.

Another one of the state's secrets has to do with its highest elevation. The Connecticut high point lies beyond a clearing where hikers stop to sign a trail register.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Quaint? You pompous motherfucker, mountains are not erections, you had no hand in creating the geology, or geography of WA which only came about for raping nature, and thee only reside there by happenstance.

Having spent considerable time there, I will admit it's attractive, if you can put up with changes in climate every 75 miles. But viewing lovely scenery is like seeing a gorgeous street walker when you can't be late for work. Makes an unpleasant commute.

The MA turnpike has a sign saying highest point on I-90 east of the Rockies.

[Flint]

Clearly jealous. Pacific Northwest is well known as the very best place in the US of A!

[xoxoxoBruce]

By whom? The people who live there?