Re: Geology Question (KRS related)

Eric Stevens wrote: im5au1p2p60jfnemmd0j8jke223g4bueo8@xxxxxxx,

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:28:50 +0100, "Peter Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxx>
wrote:

Eric Stevens wrote: 4lo8u1hmpd271b3jvi9bqrc2ovnbh37msf@xxxxxxx,
"Steve Marcus" wrote
"Eric Stevens" wrote
"Steve Marcus" wrote

[...]
The KRS was found near the top of a hill and I have never
previously heard the point of discovery discovered as either
swampy or boggy.

Blegen, for example has it that the KRS was discovered on a knoll
"above swampy ground."

See - when provoked, you can provide a source. Do you really think
that this is evidence that the knoll itself is boggy? I very much
doubt that it is.


To use your own tactics: so you don't know yourself.

Of course I don't know, but if I excercised my common sense
I would not conclude that a hill of glacial till would be boggy.

Perhaps you are right in this case, but in general
your common sense is not reliable.

For some basics on bogs see
http://tinyurl.com/7acuc

For a good (Minnesota) soil course, see
http://tinyurl.com/a45jy
there e.g.
Unit 10 - Organic Matter, Peatlands, & Soil Erosion
Chapter 2 - Peatlands
http://tinyurl.com/7muln


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