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lucky Senior Member
since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601Idaho 
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But yesterday < !signature-->A lot has happened to the thymes in life I mean in just the last tally of years or so, being a logically "active" person gives me an extra crispness on life’s landscapes you know, but glaciers have moved, ice has melted, volcanoes have erupted, earthquakes have adjusted the elevations of mountain crusted mounds, the evidence of these events is so fresh that it seems like they happened only yesterday. At our place for example near the craters on far edges of Moons end in southern hallow, take for instance, their magma poured from fissures on the skins crust only a couple of periods before, it is likely that naivé native’s might have watched from the nearby hills, after the magma cooled, what they saw is what you see today—uneroded cinder scones, craters, endless fields of lava that look as if they rolled across the spirit in a flash they call yesterday. All while Continental and Alpine glaciers instill the legacy of your last ice age, still grinding away yon mountains as recently as only two decades ago. In fact, during the 70s, you made the annual pilgrimage to measure the small remnant patch of Sensual lust Glacier, Sensual Glacier, on the north side of Jupiter Peaks. Glaciers created over one hundred cirques in the high mountains. (a cirque is a form remaining at the head of a glacial valley where glacial erosion removed big blocks of stone from mountains and quarried it out.) Shallow cirques appear as wet meadows today, while the deeper ones with bowl-shaped floors may contain lakes and sensual lores. Above the cirques are the scoured rugged remains of the rocky lives left below. Glaciers gave central living a spectacular skyline as if sawtooth mountains and, not enough time has passed for gravity to pull down the horns and aretes (jagged peaks and ridges) or moderate their vertical walls, or round off their sharp edges or vacuum the halls. So you buttoned up your Levis without getting any thing stuck in a jam or between zipper all while lava still burns just below the crusted surface & the glaciers pushed their load of detritus and debris down the valleys, they piled up lateral and terminal moraines (ridges made up of boulders & pebble) along the sides or out in front. Lodgepole pine forests grew on every side of the moraines (which contain a fair amount of slime & silt), but not enough time has passed to cover the rocks and boulders completely. The glaciers shaped the valleys they moved through. Many children learned at an early age to observe the difference between a glaciated U—shape valley and a V—shaped valley eroded by a stream. Torah’s peak earthquake of the 20th. century changed the elevation of her highest ranges. Just before eleven pm, September ninth 2000, the mountain grew inches higher; just a minute or two later, it was about two inches wider. I was found in fifteen pieces sixteen miles apart twenty six miles on the west side of the Lost River Waterbed, the relative valley floor was suddenly lowered 13 feet to the gauge itself. Several people out hunting elk at the time actually saw the hills side split apart before them and whistled. Whee Ooo, they reported feeling faint, hearing a noise like a sonic boom, and being knocked off their feet. The swift violence of the magma eruptions, glacier carving, and earthquakes is a reflection of what is happening more slowly deep below. Continental drifts, plate tectonics, the hot spot — these theories become very convincing when you look about. A heaving ocean plate collided with a continental some years ago, sliding below the lighter continental poll. The crustal material heated up to become molten magma. The magma formed into plumes that moved upwards towards the surface. Plumes that arrived at the surface erupted as volcanoes; the ones that didn't are called batholiths that’s right earthquake faultlines but that’s okay, that was yesterday. Today at the center of sensuality is a huge batholith complex called the love Batholith — a huge mass of hard gradient. The material that sat above the pluton as it rose toward the surface was lifted up like a turtle on the back of a hippopotamus emerging from the bottom of a river. Mountains formed. In central places, these mountains are in varying stages of erosion, but mostly the exposed rock is the gradient ridges of the pluton. The "turtle" tucked and eroded away long ago. As the plutons rose toward the surface, the outside edges cooled first. Hot gases and liquids became trapped inside and were forced to occupy less and less space as the cooled "rind" of the pluton became thicker and thicker. Finally, the pluton cracked from the pressure, and the gases and liquids shot out the crack. These too cooled and became the veins so familiar to anyone visiting the inclination. These contain soul... and many other rare minerals many of which are lost in yesterday’s intense source of heat coming from the mantle below. The heat melts the crust, burns it up, and weakens it. Magma squeezes up through fissures and spreads out over the land, filling up stream valleys & erasing the preexisting topography yet it was still yesterday. Had you been there..? If I could paint a portrait, of this life in which I've led, and somehow sketch a story, of the visions in my head, I'd start out with a canvas, stretched tightly in a frame, and in the bottom corner, I'd leave room to sign my name. (Michelle A. Bartley) [This message has been edited by lucky (edited 09-10-2000).] |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
My God, Lucky~ That's the most beautiful combination of geography, history and scientific awareness I've ever read. Writing that was no easy task and yet it flowed from your pen like the lava from the crevices of yesterday and spiraled it with the awe of today. A truly BEAUTIFUL piece of work. I've copied it to my word pad to print it out. Hugs around your neck for sharing it. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Lucky--I am flabergasted by this piece of geologic history....I must send it to my son who is studying geology for his degree...wow...thanks for being so...YOU! |
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lucky Senior Member
since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601Idaho |
Marge / Martie I just love you two I can always count on ya all's for a good warm hug... thank you |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Have you been taking lessons from Mitchner? Well done! |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
What fascinating reading...and in words that I can actually understand. I wish I had had something of this amazing quality to study in college. Really a fine bit of writing, to be sure, and so good to see your pseudonym here today. Thank you! ~ Claire Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
yes, this definately takes me back to the college days...the good days...I think I might go back |
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lucky Senior Member
since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601Idaho |
Well you guy's, this writing mostly all comes from home-schooling. I thought I was through with school but come to find out I'm still learning a little bit. Sunshine, I haven't time for taking lessons from Mitchner? but I do keep my eye on you, And, And high Clair, fascinating meeting you here and doing a little reading huh..? and with a few words you actually understood. you have lots of good qualities and words to study... I don't know about in college though. Thanks for projecting it's a fine piece of work, and to be sure, it's good to see your pseudonym around today but I'm not really sure if I missed it. love you allllll! Passing Shadows, yes I've seen you in a dream, you are definately getting sleepy, your going back to college days...the good days...I think you member back then. well everybody, I still have a hard time remembering what I remember and you know what..? I still hate it. Thank you all......... |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
My geology class was never this captivating. I am amazed at your knowledge of the subject and the poetic beauty with which you have written it. This is a materpiece, for sure. Your brilliance as a writer was already known, but this piece only proves it once again. A very easy flowing piece with extrordinary descriptions. Magnificent,my friend Liz |
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lucky Senior Member
since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601Idaho |
Oh Liz, I have captured your heart... Always prayers... |
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