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Postby barcelonacvr » Jun 20, 2006 8:23 pm

[No, not at all. I wish I had a picture but...

they were "pendulums"(no, they did not sway) of mud the consistency of chocolate pudding (I was able to put my sketch pencil into them 4-6 inches). I would say the largest ones were about 2' in diameter and a foot tall with a "stem" from the ceiling, 1-2 feet long. Really kind of wierd.

Overall, I would say there were about 50 of them in a cave that was 582' long. I just looked at the map and saw that the drafter left them off entirely.

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Postby Teresa » Jun 20, 2006 10:09 pm

I concur with the others: Sinter in the US usually means rock deposited from thermal waters--usually silica based. However, I've read enough stuff about travertine/tufa to realize that something like Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone (calcareous) is also referred to as sinter. Sinter usually implies some popping, splashing sorts of deposits, (an iron furnace or a welder can generate metallic sinter) as opposed to nice quiet cold flowstone accumulations.

Then again the difference between travertine and tufa seems to be in the eye of the beholder.
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Postby George Dasher » Jun 21, 2006 1:55 pm

I hate to do this, but I'm going to try to move this post back to the original thread.

You can use your own symbols if you like, or you can totally make up symbols if you like. It is totally ok, AS LONG AS you put a legend on the map.

But you're probably better off using the "standard" symbols most people understand. Or at least most of them anyway...
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Postby graveleye » Jun 21, 2006 2:45 pm

George Dasher wrote:I hate to do this, but I'm going to try to move this post back to the original thread.

You can use your own symbols if you like, or you can totally make up symbols if you like. It is totally ok, AS LONG AS you put a legend on the map.

But you're probably better off using the "standard" symbols most people understand. Or at least most of them anyway...


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Postby cob » Jun 28, 2006 8:04 pm

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Nope... not quite, tho similar. I think I will just have to go back and take some pictures and post 'em. They were quite wierd, and I cannot come up with a way for them to have formed.

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