Mark,
This reminds me of what the General Manager of the Edwards Aquifer Authority told me when I first started work down here. I will never hold you accountable for what you said to the press - only what the press says you said. Geary -----Original Message----- From: Minton, Mark [mailto:mmin...@nmhu.edu] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 10:55 AM To: Texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] RE: New tour at NBC >The new tour's talking points include its unusually long soda-straw formations - one of which, at about six feet in length, is the second-longest in North America. What a crock! There are lots of places in North America with soda straws over 6 feet long. Maybe that was supposed to say 16 feet, since on the NBC website <http://www.naturalbridgecaverns.com/adventureTours.aspx> they claim to have one 14 feet long, and say it is _one_ of the longest in North America, rather than second longest. >With bedrock dating back about 140 million years, the cave's interior is a veritable catalogue of Texas' past, said resident geologist Brian Vauter. >"What you're looking at is probably the world's most extensive library of climatological change," he said. More BS. There are lots of caves that go much deeper than Natural Bridge and cut through more layers of rock with older ages. I can't believe a geologist would make that statement. Mark Minton
