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
>>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>
>>
>> >
>
>
> > 


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