[meteorite-list] Ice-rafted rocks on "dry-lakes"

From: Art Jones <art.jones_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:38:55 +0000
Message-ID: <A7AC5EA4-3E7D-4328-A349-DF70A236D540_at_iscs.com>

Hey Bob/Rob/list;

I was just about to post that Bob explained that as the probable reason to me about 15 yrs ago!

- Art

> On Aug 29, 2014, at 1:26 PM, "Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> Yes -- it's nice to have vindication that the theory we (you, Nick Gessler, Paul Gessler and I)
> published 12 years ago was the right one!
>
> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2002/pdf/5263.pdf
>
> http://meteorite-recovery.tripod.com/2006/mar06.htm
>
> --Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Robert Verish via Meteorite-list
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 10:53 AM
> To: Meteorite Mailing List
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Ice-rafted rocks on "dry-lakes"
>
> It's now official. We can stop calling them "sailing stones". New video shows that playa rocks are being barged across the lakebed.
> Apparently, wind-driven, floating sheets of ice are dragging or pushing the rocks leaving their "tracks" in the wet lakebed sediment.
>
> Photos in the article show tracks of rocks that make tight turns and circle back into the direction from which they had come. This shows that, in these cases, the rocks are locked into the ice-sheet. http://images.realclear.com/256104_5_.jpg
>
> Bob V.
>
> Information (and sources) forward for archival purposes:
>
> ----------- Forward Text -----------
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 7:51:48 -0400
> From: "Paul H."
> To: Rockhounds List
> Subject: [Rockhounds] ?Sailing Stones? of Death Valley Mystery Solved
>
> Mystery Solved: ?Sailing Stones? of Death Valley Seen in Action for the First Time (Thin sheets of ice push rocks across the desert when conditions are just right.
> Scripps Institution of Oceanography
> https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/mystery-solved-sailing-stones-death-valley-seen-action-first-time?hash=3f42fa4a60340630b1fde436c4f177fe
>
> Mystery Of Death Valley's 'Sailing Stones' Has Finally Been Solved by Ryan Grenoble The Huffington Post, August 27, 2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/27/death-valley-sailing-stones-solved_n_5718827.html
>
> Mystery solved: The sailing stones of Death Valley by Michelle Starr, CNET, August 27, 2014 http://www.cnet.com/news/mystery-solved-the-sailing-stones-of-death-valley/
>
> Finally! Secret of Death Valley?s ?Sailing Stones? Is Solved by Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, Aug. 27, 2014 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/08/27/secret-behind-death-valleys-sailing-stones-revealed/
>
> The paper is: Norris, J. D., J. M. Norris, R. D. Lorenz, J. Ray, and B. Jackson, 2014, Sliding Rocks on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park:
> First Observation of
> Rocks in Motion. PLOS ONE. 9(8): e105948.
> doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105948
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105948
>
> Yours, Paul H.
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