[Rockhounds] Death Valley's Racing Rocks

[John Siebel]

Interesting site - bookmarked for further perusal. Although this video 
doesn't say that the lake bed moves. It says that a combination of wind, 
water and ice push the rocks along the surface. Or am I missing something?

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kreigh Tomaszewski" <Kreigh at tomaszewski.net>
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Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Death Valley's Racing Rocks


> John Siebel wrote:
>>
>> Rather weird!
>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/04/TRCAT0IV2.DTL
>>
>> John
>>
>
> Scientific American covered this a couple years ago and thought the
> cause was wind. Looking for the article online was unsuccessful, but I
> found a newer explanation that makes sense. The lakebed moves under the
> rocks
>
> http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4021
>
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