Re: [Texascavers] here's a fun use of the underground

2020-06-02 Thread Mark Minton
Capitan, the Venezuelan tepuis and Mount Thor. Mark Minton From: Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of Dwight Deal Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 6:49 PM To: Cave NM; Cave Texas Subject: Re: [Texascavers] here's a fun use of the underground ---snip

Re: [Texascavers] here's a fun use of the underground

2020-06-02 Thread Dwight Deal
For a post that was about neither caves nor karst, someone seems to have been reading it. I received several thoughtful questions. Additionally, you have reminded me that the answers show that this is related to karst after all, justifying my posting on this forum. Thank you. The miners and

Re: [Texascavers] here's a fun use of the underground

2020-05-31 Thread Miles Abernathy
After the atomic bomb went off, there was left a large hollow chamber. What happened to all the material that had occupied that space before? On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 1:18 PM Steve Keselik wrote: > The miners and engineers at the salt dome I worked at on Weeks Island in > Louisiana would beg to

Re: [Texascavers] here's a fun use of the underground

2020-05-31 Thread Steve Keselik
The miners and engineers at the salt dome I worked at on Weeks Island in Louisiana would beg to differ on the no fluid flow and permeability line of thought. Morton salt has or had (1978) a large salt mine there and leaks would increase in size and flow at an alarming rate and had to be plugged

Re: [Texascavers] here's a fun use of the underground

2020-05-30 Thread Dwight Deal
Hi Nancy: Forgive me if this is not quite cave and karst related, but -. A smaller but similar "event" occurred about 25 miles southeast of Carlsbad in 1961. This was the Gnome Project and the first test as part of Project Plowshare, a poorly-conceived attempt by Sandia National

[Texascavers] here's a fun use of the underground

2020-05-30 Thread Nancy Weaver
oops said the geologists. gotta love the scientific ’try it and see what happens’ attitude