Dean!
HOORAY FOR DEAN!!! ( shout this three times for good measure! )
As much as I like Atlantis and stories of other "happenings", the purpose
of
this list has to do primarily with the hollow earth theory. After a long
draught
someone brings to attention some pretty daunting evidence about colored
snow.
I read on a web site in the last couple years that someone thought that
plankton
had something to do with all of the off color snows found in places in
the high
arctic. I don't buy that story for an instant. If you think about it a
minute, the
only sea based life that takes to the air most anywhere is the flying
fish, and to
the best of my recollection they are not native to the high arctic.
Pollen is on the contrary uses a natural air bourne vehicle of
reproduction.
Many different arrangements are made in nature for their being lifted up
on the
prevailing winds and carried for considerable distances.
However, as Jan pointed out in his impressive volume, the winds
from the
horse latitudes are not usually found to penetrate all the way to the
pole. On the
other hand though, it is quite common to find pockets, areas of air
inversions in
the high arctic where the warm air is high and the cold air is low just
the opposite
of what it should be especially since there is a decided lack of
mountains which
might affect the formation of air flows up high that are warm enough to
glide on
top of other cold air masses below. Given the lighter air and buoyancy of
pollens
in general, what a perfect fit for the polar opening and a rising warm
air plume to
be the distributor of pollen which eventually cools down with
condensation from
the interior warm airs to result eventually in colored red, black and
other strange
colored snow.
Perchance, maybe someone ought to perform some genetic matching
on
the pollens of regionally close flower and plant producing regions of the
outer
northern hemisphere. It might be a stretch, but could a plant of flower
native to
only the interior be identified with this comparison?
Scott
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:31:06 -0300 "Dean De Lucia" <[email protected]> writes:
Members,
Last night I passed around some comments from Nansen about the areas
covered
with pollen which he encountered on the Arctic ice. Just to show you
all
that it was not an isolated incident, I'll include these
commentsfrom page
139 ofGardner's book:" By August first he had reached a point near the Petowik glacier
which lies
just northward of the "Crimson Cliffs" of Sir John Ross. This is so
called
from the fact that on the snow-clad cliffs and glacier surfaces at
this
point Sir John Ross, in 1818, discovered a red deposit which had
fallen
about and mixed with the snow, giving it a reddish color which was
pretty
widely distributed. What was it? For a long time this was a mystery,
but it
was at last proven to be of vegetable origin: now, the point- to be
taken up
in detail later- is simply this: where could any vegetable matter,
either a
pollen from larger plants or a very humble sort of red mossy or
spore like
growth, come from? There is no other case in the whole realm of
botany that
would justify us in assuming that a plant can grow on ice-bergs or
on snow.
A plant requires certain elements and certain temperatures.
Evidently,
somewhere those factors must be in existence. Where, we shall see
later."" Where " is the hollow portion. The pollen falls on icebergs there
and
floats out, or blows out and then sits on the ice.Nansen found his pollen way in the middle, just on the
Siberian-European
side, and the above-mentioned place was close to the Northern tip of
Canada.Dharma/Dean
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