Re: Geology Question (KRS related)

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:46:13 -0500, "Steve Marcus"
<smarcus_spamout_@xxxxxxx> wrote:



"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 1 Feb 2006 16:14:34 -0800, "Daryl Krupa" <icycalmca@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Steve Marcus wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:
<snip>
I know you were discussing the difference between rain and snow as
precipitation but just to correct any misapprehension arising from
your final paragraph, on p39 the authors also stated that:

"Subsequent below-grade studies have not been performed due to the
difference in pH of the soil in Hallowell, Maine and the Kensington
Rune Stone discovery site".
<snip>
However, now that you mention it, would you consider it fair to
say that the authors originally didn't collect samples
due to the ground being frozen and snow covered?
Then, when they later went back,
they didn't collect samples because of
the pH difference in the soils.

Steve:
Perhaps the investigators never did go back to Hallowell,
having learned something about soil pH differences and their
possibly differential effects on rock weathering after the
initial tombstone-observation expedition.
Is there some mention of a follow-up expedition to the
cemetery at Hallowell in the book?
Is there any mention that they took soil samples from the
cemetery?
(I would be surprised if they did; cemetery managers tend to
frown on excavations by outsiders, however small the effort.
It just looks bad to visiting family members.)
Is there any indication that they knew the pH of the soil
in that cemetery?

Daryl, you don't need to take soil samples away to determine soil pH.
You can even buy kits to do this on site in all the better gardening
stores. See http://tinyurl.com/d3njy for example.

Yes, there is an indication that they knew the soil pH in both the
cemetery and at the KRS site. They said they were different.

They also said that when above ground samples were taken in the cemetery,
there was a foot of snow on the ground. And the ground was frozen. Do you
know whether those kits work in such conditions??

I have no idea of what they actually did. If they used one of the
simple 'litmus paper' like indicator kits it certainly would have
worked with a pinch of thawed soil.

But, that aside, how does the scientist in you feel vis-a-vis the failure to
take samples as originally intended (one presumes they considered a
comparison of the below ground samples to be important), and the failure to
explain why the pH differences matter?

You are jumping to conclusions. We don't know what they did. As for
the lack of explanation, there is a limit to the amount of detail
which can be offered in a book of this kind.

Just asking ...

Eric Stevens

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