[Rockhounds] glacial erratics (was Stonehenge geology resolved)

[Dora Smith]

I misread this.  I thought you said that the bats dropped the rock as they 
were trying to save Napi, the supernatural trickster of the Bigfoot!

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24 at yahoo.com

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Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] glacial erratics (was Stonehenge geology resolved)


> Well, heck, Lanny, the explanation is all right there in the story link 
> that Kreigh sent, how the rock was split by the bats as they were trying 
> to save Napi, the supernatural trickster of the Blackfoot.
>
> Trying for the more scientific interpretations, perhaps, if the rock had 
> been carried to this spot as one more or less intact block by the glacier, 
> it could have been resting on stagnant glacial ice after the ice sheet 
> stopped moving, and melting away of support underneath it might have 
> undermined the rock and caused it break apart if it couldn't support its 
> own weight; or, it might even have toppled off an ice cliff at the 
> terminus of the glacier, perhaps while the ice was still flowing.? Or, 
> being weak in its center, perhaps it was broken into several pieces while 
> it was still being carried along.
>