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Re: Skull in Boulder images
Peter Stephen Thomas III (pst@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu)
7 Nov 1996 19:47:38 GMT
Ed Conrad (edconrad@prolog.net) wrote:
: "henry l. barwood" <hbarwood@indiana.edu> wrote:
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: >Jim Yahr wrote:
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: >snip. Megaspam partially retained.
:
: >> Ed Conrad wrote:
: >> >
: >> > Rather amazing, too, is that, while the boulder itself is solid,
: >> > the human skull-like protrusion emits a hollow sound when
: >> > tapped.
: >> >
: >> What's even more amazing is how your material has maintained its 3
: >> dimensional shape when all the rock around it has been compressed to
: >> 1/20th of it's original volume. So I ask you, for the fourth time, to
: >> explain how the shape can be maintained with this amount of compression
: >> in the surounding metamorphic rock.
: >>
: >Although Conrad would neither accept nor understand, this is perfectly
: >reasonable function of concretion formation. Being an early diagenetic
: >product they maintain a spherical to semi-spherical form (some are
: >compressed to varying degrees by late diagenesis and/or metamorphism) and
: >are often hollow from replacement or gel-state shrinkage.
: > Henry Barwood
:
: Henry:
: I totally agree with your assessment of the reason for the shrinkage
: of so many of your colleague's brains.
: Being an early diagenetic product, they maintain a spherical to
: semi-spherical form (frequently compressed by late diagenesis and/or
: metamorphism) and often are hollow from replacement or gel-state
: shrinkage.
: This deplorable condition, most frequently triggered by a steady dose
: of brainwashing on a college/university level, is known by
: neurologists as Petrified Brainitis.
: And, the sad part, they still haven't come up with a cure.
:
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