[Rockhounds] Re: Lowest places??

[Jeanette Wimpee]

My guess is Death Valley, and ta da....New Orleans!
The lowest dry land not in the US?  The beach on the Dead Sea?
Since we've been out of town and not checking my email for four days. The 
answers are probably a few hundred emails down in my inbox....

Jeanette

> I don't think I have any specimens dredged from the great depths, as 
> Kreigh does. But continuing on the theme of lowest places, here is a very 
> interesting website, from geology.com, a tour of the lowest (below sea 
> level) "dry land" places on earth. It notes that "a total of 33 countries 
> have land below sea level", and if you're up for a quiz, try naming the 10 
> lowest places (of dry land, not lake or sea bottoms) on the planet before 
> you look at the answers:
> http://geology.com/below-sea-level/
> (hint, two of them are in the U.S., and the lowest one worldwide should be 
> easy to guess...)
>
> happy New Year to all,
> Pete Modreski