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Mystery of how rocks move across Death Valley lake bed solved
Mystery of how rocks move across Death Valley lake bed solved
Mike My money is on you. When do you do it?simimike said:Horse feathers! My friends and I move them around when we're not busy making crop circles. I mean who are you going to believe, Intelligent well educated scientist following sound scientific principles or Me?
Mike
Thanks Frank, What we do is skulk around the shore line in late winter waiting for the right conditions. Then when it looks like the ice is just about to melt we walk out on the ice so we don't leave foot prints and push them around. The 200 lb ones can be a real bear though.Casa Escarlata Robles Too said:Mike My money is on you. When do you do it?
Frank
Well, lets just take a close look at this picture. Just opposite of Mark's name you see where guy pushing the rock slipped and fell. And if you follow the trail you'll see a "Y". It looks like foot prints. Amateurs!MarkBC said:Very interesting.
I wonder if the same process moves the rocks across the Alvord playa, which i photographed a couple of years ago?
One would assume that the same mechanism works on all mysterious moving-across-playa rocks.
That mechanism -- ice -- means that this likely wouldn't occur in dry lakebeds that never freeze.
According to this Wikipedia entry, there are a few other areas known, besides the Racetrack, where these have been observed.