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Date: | Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:59:04 -0400 |
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Quite a few years ago at a SAA meeting, a fellow delivered a paper and slide
show on Easter Island that I attended. Having read Aku Aku as a boy, I have
been a fan of the island all these years. The paper presented evidence for a
hurricane and Tsunami that ripped coastal soil and pushed it deep into the upland
several miles and filled to a depth of about three to five meters of
sediment, palm trees, and rubble. This covered the famous statues up to their necks.
At the time, I found this premise and hypothesis too incredible to take
seriously. Then came the Tsunami in Indonesia this past year and geologists explained
how the surge ripped thousands of buildings into a froth that measured miles
long, several hundred feet wide, ten meters deep and dropped its load at the
inland edge of the surge. This same process repeated in Hurricane Katrina this
past week, as evidenced by satellite photos of Gulfport, Ms that very clearly
showed how an "artifact soup" of sediment, lumber, and bodies ground into the
landscape and deposited miles inland. I now see my folly in not accepting the
premise of the paper delivered on Easter Island.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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