Ice rafts not sails: Floating the rocks at Racetrack Playa, Paper by Ralph Lorenz et. al. |
Ice rafts not sails: Floating the rocks at Racetrack Playa, Paper by Ralph Lorenz et. al. |
Dec 29 2010, 06:04 PM
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Thanks once again to Jason B for making this intriguing paper accessible to all: http://barnesos.net/publications/papers/20...track.Rafts.pdf
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Aug 27 2014, 10:28 PM
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Well the rocks move slowly so it took a few years since the last post, but a nice paper is out in PLoS One. Ralph and other authors have have a great movie capturing rock movement. Link
Title: Sliding Rocks on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion -------------------- |
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Sep 1 2014, 12:05 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 610 Joined: 23-February 07 From: Occasionally in Columbia, MD Member No.: 1764 |
Well the rocks move slowly so it took a few years since the last post, but a nice paper is out in PLoS One. There are more pics and info at www.racetrackplaya.org A companion paper is out in Earth Surface Dynamics Discussions http://www.earth-surf-dynam-discuss.net/pa...discussion.html I was very lucky to have seen the rocks move myself. What is interesting to me (in an introspective way) is how the problem has connections with so much of my 'day job' - wave generation, wind-blown drift of the TiME capsule, evaporation rates, playa geomorphology, etc. etc. |
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