Racetrack Playa explanation from the Physics Girl

[Stray Dog]

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

That was a very interesting story to solve the mystery.
Thanks for posting.
Frank

 

[pvstoy]

Thanks for the story Straw Dog.

 

[Foy]

Though I never watched the sitcom "Big Bang Theory", I'm told that a running joke within the dialog was a constant running down of geologists as a lesser species among scientists, and notably inferior to physicists.

If that's a correct summary, it is with a hint of smugness that I note that a geologist (a paleobiologist having earned his undergraduate and both graduate degrees in geology) and an engineer actually solved the riddle, and did so in the old fashioned way--with solid field work. Best is that the popular "Physics Girl" acknowledges that.

Foy

 

[kmcintyre]

I'm pretty sure they figured this out quite some time ago (especially since there are signs out there explaining it) but still a good video.

 

[Foy]

I'm pretty sure they figured this out quite some time ago (especially since there are signs out there explaining it) but still a good video.

Believe the Norris cousins' field observations were 12/23/2013. Wind-driven ice postulated before, but the final "Eureka" proof in the pudding that even thin plates of ice could accumulate and form an "ice shove" was first observed on 12/23/2013?