[Texascavers] Road-trip report

2014-07-15 Thread David
I am north of Meridian, Mississippi, driving back to Houston. It is all just a warm fuzzy memory now. All I can do is reminisce and ponder about what I could have done differently to make the road-trip more pleasant. There were at least 34 Texas cavers at the 2014 NSS Howdy Party, and a few form

[SWR] Is this hole that appeared in Siberia a sinkhole or a blowout

2014-07-15 Thread Michael Lorimer
It looks like a sinkhole or some kind of collapse from the air.  However, an oblique view looks like there is elevation along the sides, which would imply an explosion.  What do you think? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2

[Texascavers] Fwd: [SWR] Is this hole that appeared in Siberia a sinkhole or a blowout

2014-07-15 Thread Logan McNatt
Interesting hole. Thanks Mike. Original Message Subject:[SWR] Is this hole that appeared in Siberia a sinkhole or a blowout Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:48:06 -0500 From: Michael Lorimer To: SWR List Server It looks like a sinkhole or some kind of collapse f

Re: [Texascavers] Fwd: [SWR] Is this hole that appeared in Siberia a sinkhole or a blowout

2014-07-15 Thread Stefan Creaser
The earth scattered around the edges of the hole would seem to me to indicate that it’s not a just a collapse (large hole, not that much debris…) but did “explode” too. From: Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of Logan McNatt Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 2:44 PM

Re: [SWR] Is this hole that appeared in Siberia a sinkhole or a blowout

2014-07-15 Thread DONALD G. DAVIS
Michael Lorimer wrote: >It looks like a sinkhole or some kind of > collapse from the air.  However, an oblique view looks like > there is elevation along the sides, which would imply an > explosion.  What do you think face="Times New Roman">? > >http://

Re: [SWR] Is this hole that appeared in Siberia a sinkhole or a blowout

2014-07-15 Thread Carl Pagano
In all seriousness. If it were a meteor strike, or something did blow up, within the last ? years, wouldn't it have registered as a seismic event? The place for that is in Boulder CO, and they can pick up stuff from all over the world. That's partially I think how they measure wether someone has

Re: [SWR] Is this hole that appeared in Siberia a sinkhole or a blowout

2014-07-15 Thread George Veni
The Global Lithologic Map shows the area as "mixed sedimentary rocks." That map is being used in developing the latest version of the World Karst Map and other members of the team are digging through the metadata for areas with this designation to see if the mix of rocks may include carbonates a

Re: [SWR] Is this hole that appeared in Siberia a sinkhole or a blowout

2014-07-15 Thread Jerry
Given the presence of both thermogenic and biogenic gas in the subsurface in that area, I'd hazard a guess that the feature is a methane hydrate blowout and collapse feature developed in the permafrost. These seepages will most likely be occurring more often as the Arctic areas of the world be

[Texascavers] no UT Grotto meeting tomorrow 7/16/2014

2014-07-15 Thread Dale Barnard
Anna Klis asked someone to put this on cavetex: "Tomorrow's presentation has been rescheduled, so there will be no meeting! A large portion of our membership is away in Huntsville anyway, and we have a 5th Wednesday this month to make up for the loss." _

Re: [Texascavers] no UT Grotto meeting tomorrow 7/16/2014

2014-07-15 Thread Scott Boyd
Being from Texas, my first thought after reading this was "What, they're all in Huntsville Texas?? Everybody get sent to the prison?" Then I realized she meant Huntsville, Alabama!! That makes more sense. Scott On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Dale Barnard wrote: > Anna Klis asked someone to pu

Re: [Texascavers] no UT Grotto meeting tomorrow 7/16/2014

2014-07-15 Thread Stefan Creaser
Anyone still wanna go to the Posse? I'm in... Stefan From: Texascavers [texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of Dale Barnard [d...@dalebarnard.com] Sent: 15 July 2014 20:38 To: * Texas Cavers Subject: [Texascavers] no UT Grotto meeting tomorrow

[Texascavers] Correction

2014-07-15 Thread David
I left off at least one name on the list of Texas cavers at The NSS Howdy Party. That would be John Moses. As of early Wednesday morning, just after midnight, I crossed back into Texas. Now trying to nap in the back of my tiny car at the State of Texas rest-area, at the Sabine River and I-10. It