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Old 12-29-2011, 05:45 PM
 
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Glacial erratic

 
Old 12-29-2011, 06:58 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Kool...

I'm suprised road crews didn't blow it up...

Feel sorry the the car or truck that's below that thing should a earthquake knock it loose...
 
Old 12-29-2011, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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Glacial erratic
you mean the car!?

<picks nose>
 
Old 12-29-2011, 07:17 PM
 
Location: Ohio
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Does the link help?

Yeah, okay I get it ... good one
 
Old 12-30-2011, 10:42 AM
 
Location: Richardson, TX
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I didn't get it either...until i hit that link...now I do...

erratic is the process of a rock the ...
It isn't the process, it is what we call the actual rock. The rock is an erratic.
 
Old 12-30-2011, 10:44 AM
 
Location: Richardson, TX
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Yeah, okay I get it ... good one
If you said that you were going to discuss bentonite seams, I would have replied, "Swell!" Get it?
 
Old 12-30-2011, 12:17 PM
 
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Geologists enjoy Nappes between thrusts!
 
Old 12-30-2011, 12:57 PM
 
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The rock in the post # 301 at the top of this page:
This is obviously a meteoritic rock that fell from the space.
It had pressed the sand and some of it is under the level of the surrounding ground.


Meteorites
 
Old 12-30-2011, 01:26 PM
 
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The rock in the post # 301 at the top of this page:
This is obviously a meteoritic rock that fell from the space.
It had pressed the sand and some of it is under the level of the surrounding ground.


Meteorites
No sir, it is an olivine basalt, one of the most common rocks on planet Earth.
 
Old 12-30-2011, 01:42 PM
 
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The rock in the post # 301 at the top of this page:
This is obviously a meteoritic rock that fell from the space.
It had pressed the sand and some of it is under the level of the surrounding ground.


Meteorites
ROLFMAO!

And the impact crater from such a meteor (meteorites are usually less than a 1m depending on definition) would make the surrounding sediment to mound up around it?????
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