[Rockhounds] Death Valley's Racing Rocks

[J Bryan Kramer]

Well I was out there in the late 1970's and the rangers then were using the
very same explanation. And may have been doing so for decades as far as I
know. So there doesn't seem to be anything new about this. I'm sure I saw
magazine articles in that time period on the phenomena.

BK

On 11/4/07, Kreigh Tomaszewski <Kreigh at tomaszewski.net> wrote:
>
> 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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