Thank you encyclopaedia Paul. (I spent a whole year learning to spell encyclopaedia!!)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul McCool" <pdmcc...@verizon.net> To: <Papermodels@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 2:56 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 34919] Re: Hello Everyone!! > > Giant Rock is the world's largest free-standing boulder in the world. > Located next to Spy Mountain in Landers, California, this stony behemoth > is > seven stories high and covers 5800 square feet. > > For those who are wondering, "But isn't Ayers Rock in Australia the > biggest? That's another huge rock, but it is not free standing. A > sedimentary rock, Ayers is partially, if not mostly, buried. > > Geologists consider Giant Rock to be an "erratic" deposited during the > last > Ice Age." It is estimated to be 65 and 135 million years old. > > When the rock split in February, 2000, its interior was discovered to be > gleaming white granite. > > Ayres Rock is actually the second largest monolithic rock in the world. > And, yes, your desert is worse. I like ours. <VBG> > > Paul M. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mandy F" <mandythepcg...@gmail.com> > To: <Papermodels@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:58 PM > Subject: [Papermodels II 34917] Re: Hello Everyone!! > > >> >> Hang on.. I thought WE had the biggest rock? And we have our own >> desert. >> Worse than yours. ;) >> >> .... McCool... desert.. hmmmm >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Paul McCool" <pdmcc...@verizon.net> >> To: <Papermodels@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 2:16 PM >> Subject: [Papermodels II 34914] Re: Hello Everyone!! >> >> >>> >>> I'm not jealous of the Aussies. My desert is just as nice to look at as >>> their Outback, and we have bigger rocks.<VBG> >>> >>> Paul M. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "John" <marz...@gmail.com> >>> To: "Papermodels II" <Papermodels@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:40 PM >>> Subject: [Papermodels II 34913] Re: Hello Everyone!! >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Hey--not everybody on this list is from Oz--just some of the more >>>> important ones. Those of us elsewhere are sometimes jealous. >>>> >>>> John Freeman >>>> Vancouver Island >>>> Canada >>>> > >>> >>> >>> > >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to Papermodels@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to papermodels+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---