RE: [Texascavers] Terra Rossa, anyone? 2

2007-07-25 Thread Geary Schindel
When I was going to school at West Virginia University back in the late 70's, Greg Adamson. and I went to check out a particular nasty crawl he knew about. It was a low west grim sticky mud clay and water crawl. Back then, we wore cotton coveralls to protect our wool shirts and pants. Now laying

Re: [Texascavers] Terra Rossa, anyone? 2

2007-07-24 Thread CaverArch
gi...@att.net writes: Again, this is business too tricky for us mere dabblers to be dabbling in with any authority. I agree, certainly as far as "with any authority" goes. But it probably does little harm as long as the dabblers like me are taken with a large enough grain of salt th

RE: [Texascavers] Terra Rossa, anyone? 2

2007-07-24 Thread gille
-- Original message -- From: "Geary Schindel" > This definition doesn't necessarily state that it's derived from > limestone but we may be nitpicking. Anyway, I've always thought that > they are mostly found on limestones so you would think that they would > be ass

RE: [Texascavers] Terra Rossa, anyone?

2007-07-24 Thread Geary Schindel
PM To: gi...@att.net; texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Terra Rossa, anyone? My cup runneth over with definitions, Gill! And the definitions are all pretty much in the sense that I recalled its usage about 35 years ago. I think I'll repost this whole thread on

Re: [Texascavers] Terra Rossa, anyone?

2007-07-24 Thread CaverArch
My cup runneth over with definitions, Gill! And the definitions are all pretty much in the sense that I recalled its usage about 35 years ago. I think I'll repost this whole thread onto the Florida list and see if Lee Florea or some other Florida geologist will rise to the bait. Roger

[Texascavers] Terra Rossa, anyone?

2007-07-24 Thread gille
-- Original message -- From: cavera...@aol.com > But how do the red clays of the Florida and SW Georgia karst fit in? I > don't think these clays are massively thick. But more interestingly, unless > they > are derived from elsewhere, I don't there was much of