Re: Experts split over quake risk


"Jo Schaper" <joschapern4ospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:11q5kprc06jh8b5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Alan wrote:
>
>> In article <11q4drvof7m5cf4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> joschapern4ospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jo Schaper) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Man, what yahoo wrote that article?
>>>
>>>
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>>>>By Eric Hand
>>>>ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
>>>>12/14/2005
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>>
>> Err... Eric Hand, maybe? :-) I spotted on the same page as your story
>> about the dam.
>
> That was a rhetorical device, Alan. Probably no point writing the paper,
> as they keep reporting that the mountain the reservoir is built on is
> made of granite, which they can't seem to figure out isn't rhyolite. A
> debate of local geology is way beyond them. A few years ago, they
> advocated that caves were a good place to collect mineral specimens, an
> activity which is against the law in Missouri (unless you are the owner,
> or have his written permission). I did write them a letter then. My
> quarrel isn't with Mr. Hand; it's with the assumptions of the Nature
> article as reported by him. Unfortunately, I cannot afford a Nature
> subscription, so likely will not see the original. Last summer they
> reported that a cave in Missouri was the ONLY cave which had ever had
> cave restoration, a patent falsehood I pointed out to the author, who
> said, 'Well, that is unimportant' though the uniqueness was the point of
> the story.

Horse Cave, in Kentucky, has also been restored after many years of
efforts.

George


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