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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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QUOTE (Floyd @ Aug 27 2014, 06:28 PM)  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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ngunn Ice rafts not sails: Floating the rocks at Racetrack Playa Dec 29 2010, 06:04 PM
ElkGroveDan Fascinating paper Ralph. This is one of my favori... Dec 29 2010, 06:18 PM djellison I must get up there and Gigapan the place. It... Dec 29 2010, 07:11 PM ElkGroveDan I suppose others have already thought of solar pow... Dec 29 2010, 07:14 PM
rlorenz QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Dec 29 2010, 02:14 P... Dec 29 2010, 10:44 PM ElkGroveDan Reading your paper Ralph it looks like the occurre... Dec 30 2010, 12:21 AM rlorenz QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Dec 29 2010, 07:21 P... Dec 30 2010, 01:22 PM rlorenz QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Dec 29 2010, 07:21 P... Jan 12 2012, 05:10 AM PDP8E Ralph,
Thank you for that fascinating paper!
... Dec 30 2010, 08:29 PM nprev Real blue-sky suggestion here, but would putting l... Dec 31 2010, 01:48 AM Juramike QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 30 2010, 08:48 PM) rem... Dec 31 2010, 01:43 PM rlorenz QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 30 2010, 08:48 PM) Rea... Dec 31 2010, 01:50 PM ZLD QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 31 2010, 01:48 AM) Rea... Dec 31 2010, 04:59 PM Julius i've just seen a programme on weird or what... Dec 31 2010, 09:30 AM nprev Hmm. Got it, Ralph.
Well, let's see: How abou... Jan 1 2011, 09:44 PM djellison QUOTE (ZLD @ Dec 31 2010, 08:59 AM) I wou... Jan 2 2011, 01:44 AM ZLD If that is out, then so is just about every other ... Jan 2 2011, 09:09 AM Floyd Ralph, very nice paper. My niece works for the Na... Jan 20 2011, 02:29 PM nprev I remember first reading about this in 1973, and o... Aug 28 2014, 04:19 AM |
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