The local telephone company is in process of burying a few hundred miles of fiber optic cable.?ÿ The scene below is along the edge of the road past one of my cattle pastures.?ÿ The pebble in the first photo was ripped from the ground to facilitate their efforts.?ÿ It is roughly four feet by five feet and about 20 inches think.?ÿ The second photo shows the baby it birthed while being extracted.?ÿ It is only about 20 inches by 14 inches by six inches.?ÿ That corresponds to many of the section corner stones set in this area in 1865-66.?ÿ Anyone wanting to adopt one or both of these bad boys is welcome to come and get them.
You've got make good use of what you have.
Thought y'all were speaking of:
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Old timers might recall that there was a contest with some big prize to come up with a name for the Flintstone's baby.
I've been around long enough that I can remember when the comic, The Family Circus, did not yet have a baby, just Billy, Dolly and Jeffy.
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Friday while working a field to plant soybeans the chisel gave a jerk.?ÿ We discovered the tip of one shank was missing.?ÿ Walking back about 100 feet we saw some shiny white dust atop the dark soil.?ÿ Within a minute we had uncovered what looked a bit like a section corner stone.?ÿ I took off to retrieve some digging tools, etc. assuming I could dig enough to remove it.?ÿ About an hour and a half later I gave up.?ÿ What we found in the first minute was deceiving.?ÿ The stone turned out to be about seven feet long and from a foot and a half to over four feet wide with a thickness of twenty to twenty-four inches.?ÿ Saturday morning found the stone being attacked by a skid steer.?ÿ First with the forks to remove dirt enough to discover the true dimensions, then with the bucket.?ÿ A sort of ramp was cut out to enable sliding it up to surface level.?ÿ The trick was to tilt the bucket down as much as possible, then push up tight against the stone before using the hydraulic power of the bucket to shove the stone a few inches at a time.?ÿ It was far too heavy to lift.?ÿ It is now resting near a fence close to a large tree.?ÿ Probably every farmer since my great-great grandfather in the 1870's had unkind words for that stone.
What happened geologically to make chunks that size?
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He had already been given that name when he was left in a basket on the doorstep of the Rubble family according to a note left with him.
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You would need to ask a geologist.?ÿ Something to do with the transition from an inland sea to dry earth I suppose.?ÿ We have limestone quarries that get quite deep.?ÿ What let these "floaters" escape the bedrock is a good question.
Mass flood events. Water is the most powerful force on earth.
If not that, then definitely pyramid building aliens.
Their drone probably accidentally dropped it there. ???? ???? ?????ÿ
This seems to indicate they could be glacial erratic boulders. This glaciation was long before that which created Iowa landforms, so I wasn't thinking that at first.
I'm astonished! Never knew any of that before. (love Perry Mason).
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Umm...BTW do you know why Theodore was named "the beaver"? I never thought he had buck teeth....
One of the tasks, every summer, when we visited Grampa's farm; was to pick up stones from his fields. One of the things that always intrigued me; how come they keep coming back? didn't we just do this last summer? Every summer there would be more stones. Potato size to basketball...
Grampa's fam was in Windygates Manitoba, part of the great Canadian Shield. Some of the oldest rocks on the planet:
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The?ÿCanadian Shield?ÿcontains some of the oldest rocks on Earth. In 2008, researchers estimated rock found on the northern shore of Hudson Bay, 40 km south of Inukjuak, to be 4.28 billion years old. Its age means the rock was created approximately 300 million years after the formation of Earth~Mar 8, 2017
I actually know a couple that named their kids Bamm Bamm, and Pebbles.
For real.
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Mass flood events.
The Scablands, in Eastern Washington, is an interesting place to visit.
When the Missoula Ice Dam broke, you didn't want to be in the way. Boulders the size of houses were pushed down stream, well, like Pebbles.
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We truly live in a wonderous world
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Yep. Studied it a bit.?ÿ The flow was/is measured in cubic miles, and yeah, houses like the size of 3 and 4 bedrooms.
The rebound of the Laurentian shield is still on going, and did some gravity around Marshall Minnesota with a base up at Granite Falls.
Indeed an amazing world.
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This is such a great place.?ÿ Learning goes on every day.
The extent of glacial deposits in Kansas is pretty much as shown in the link.?ÿ Sliding out of Nebraska, more or less along the Blue River, until about Manhattan and the junction with the Kansas River, then eastward along the Kansas to its junction with the Missouri at Kansas City.?ÿ We are 100 miles further south.
Our survey work today took us to a property with two very old limestone rock quarries.?ÿ Typically, they scrape off all loose materials and topsoil over the planned extent of the quarry.?ÿ These had some massive stones in the huge ridges around each quarry.?ÿ There were times as we traveled by four-wheeler around the half section and more that we were directly on bare bedrock.?ÿ In other places a two-foot rebar could be driven, most if not all the way, to surface level.
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The stupid writers for the show waited to the end of the run to give a reason.?ÿ Apparently, Wally mispronounced "Theodore" (he would have been about four at the time) so badly that his mispronunciation morphed into Beaver.
You did deposit the beast on someone else??s property didn??t you? ?????ÿ
