Re: Kensington runestone Vegetation)in the Scandinavian press

Peter,
now you are speaking as you were speaking out of the blue. You should have
known a bit about this, but you obviously don't......

Inger E
"Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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> Eric Stevens wrote: m2p3b15jqlf77q005mt40fau2lu394sh83@xxxxxxx,
> > "Alaca" wrote:
> >> Eric Stevens wrote:
> >>>> Eric Stevens wrote:
>
> >>>>> With respect to the original question of whether or not there were
> >>>>> swamps around Runestone Hill, there are no consequences but,
> >>>>> what do you have in mind?
> >>>
> >>> You are jumping to conclusions. I have done my homework. As I have
> >>> just posted elsewhere, this was beaten to death in this news group
> >>> several years ago. I don't know what information you have found but
> >>> all the information which came out last time round was to the effect
> >>> that the original swamps which surrounded Runestone Hill were being
> >>> drained starting about the time of Ohman and that the water level
> >>> was (5 years ago) lower than it had been originally. That's why, as
> >>> in the article to which I previously referred, it was stated that
> >>> the 19th century water level was being restored by the construction
> >>> of dams. This information has been confirmed by people who live in
> >>> the area. I also have photographs of then and now which confirm the
> >>> changes.
>
> >> Almost everything re the KRS is beaten to death, not
> >> only in this group, so why bother at all?
> >> But you are right, the drainage is discussed, at lest in
> >> 1999, 2001, 2004, but it is not the subject that was
> >> beaten to death, it was you. Same showing of ignorance
> >> from your (and the usual others) side, and the same
> >> factual corrections from others, esp. Daryl.
> >> Which means that you didn't do your homework then,
> >> and you didn't since.
> >> In that sense you are right, it is of no use to discuss this
> >> again with you, and I understand why you are reluctant
> >> to do so.
> >> Or is something wrong with your memory? In that case
> >> I don't blame you.
>
> > I don't quite know what you are getting at. I have factual on the
> > ground information about the conditions and you still claim I don't
> > know what I am talking about?
> >
> > I would send you photographs if I had your email address but I wonder
> > if you would declare them to be wrong. never mind, I've sent some to
> > Tom McDonald instead and invited his comments.
>
>
> As long as there are no flying prime saucers in the
> picture, there is nothing wrong with photographs.
> The problem here is that they are only a point in space
> and time.
> Important is that the area is generaly sloping from the
> northeast to the southwest. In simple terms that means
> that every hole in the ground is infiltrated from the north-
> east and drained to the south-west. That is exactly what
> you see around the runestone'valley' (in fact three in
> theory interconnected 'valleys', with the surface between
> 1350 and 1360 ft).
>
> The watertabel in the lakes west and south is 10 - 20 ft
> lower, and in the east 20 - 25 ft higher.
> In order to restore RS'valley in its supposed wet natural
> conditions, there are two ways:
> 1. dig it out lower than the groundwaterlevel.
> 2. block the artificial draining and, depending on the
> desired waterlevel, create some new dams in the south.
> And don't breach the road which is blocking it from Eng
> lake!
> The second solution is of course the cheapest.
>
> RS'valley' is now wetter than before, but it is not the
> natural "pre-settlement" situation, because it is a
> stagnated situation, isolated from the surroundings.
> One of the aims in my bussiness is to restore autonomous
> functioning natural systems. The way to do that is a kind
> of rewinding time to a (arbitrairy) past, by removing as
> much as possible direct and indirect interfering human
> influences.
>
> If you take a look at the map (I am looking at a 3x3 mile
> one) then you see that a lot of roads in the area are in
> fact functioning as dams, blocking both infiltration and
> drainage. That is why I earlier wrote that in order to
> restore the original waterlevel around runestone hill, there
> are more dams to remove then to construct.
>
> It is difficult for me to predict here and now wat the
> net result for RS'-valley' would be. But in all cases
> it is very difficult to imagine RS-hill as an island in
> a lake. More likely a peninsula in a bog.
>
> --
> ¨°º©º°¨Peter Alaca¨°º©º°¨¨°º©º°¨¨°º©º°¨¨°º©º°¨¨°º©º°¨
>
>


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