Re: Geology Question (KRS related)


"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 23:54:55 +0100, "Peter Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxx>
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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

Those are both good sites. My comment about the KRS site not being a
swamp or bog was based on several photographs I have seen. One of them
was taken at about the time of the finding and shows that the hill was
only sparsely populated by not very large trees. This is somewhere on
the web but I have not yet been able to find it. I have more recent
photographs which show the hill to now be grassy parkland. There is no
evidence ofthe hill being bog or swamp in any of these. The foot of
the hill is another matter.

Plate 1 in the WN book shows an aerial view of the Ohman farm and
gives a good idea of the general topography.

Eric,
it's noted that the area around what might have been an island had clay
close to the surface and that the swamp which is marked for all the field on
a map from 1890's was a swamp. The exact place where the stone was found had
clay which had included and surronded the stone making it hard to see that
there was a text on the side facing ground. As Barry Hanson in short words
wrote in his chapter 'Studying the Stone, a brief early history'(Hanson
Barry, Kensington Runestone volume 1)

"With clay still clinging to it in places the stone was put on display in
the bank window in the small village of Kensington for a couple of weeks."

That it happened like this is supported from affidavits and early articles
where the first documentation regard KRS is to be read.

Inger e



Eric Stevens



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