Monday, November 30, 2015
A matter of scale
Limestone is made out of tiny seashells. Layers and layers of tiny seashells, laid down over a mind-bogglingly vast span of time by generations of small critters. Then over another mind-bogglingly vast span of time rainwater will get into the cracks and stay there. In the middle of Iowa, about 74 million years ago, a rock from space bumped into the planet Earth and made a big dent, blowing all the limestone away. The crater is buried, but if you drill a well in Manson, Iowa, you get soft water, while the whole rest of the region has hard water.
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I wonder sometimes from which part of your day you are posting your blog. Does 5:30 a.m. come after a long night, or is it an early beginning? NT
Neither, N. The server is in some freakish time zone.
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