SpookyGeology

 · ** Scary Stories of Mammoth Cave [|www.cavebooks.com/book_review0.html#scary]   ** · ** Spooky Gulch [] ** · ** The Virtual Cave [] **  Images from caves all over the world. This site tells the story of caves in words and pictures: what's in them and how it got there. Caves are split them into four underground realms //. // ·  **How to Create a Haunted Cave of Wonders [|www.associatedcontent.com/article/381971/how_to_create_a_haunted_cave_of_wonders.html?cat=25]  ** · **Scholastic Unit on Caves []  ** · **See more on cave biology (talk about creepy critters!) at [] and []. **  <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Wahweep Hoodoos []  ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">
 * Spooky Science: Geology **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Caves [|www.csiro.au/scope/episodes/e117.htm] **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">What is spookier than a cave? <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Caves are natural openings within the earth that usually extend deep beyond the reach of light. They are found in many types of rock, but are most common in limestone and gypsum. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Water that Was: Glacial Lake Missoula [] **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Glacial Lake Missoula was a prehistoric [|proglacial lake] in western [|Montana] that existed periodically at the end of the last [|ice age] between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago. The periodic rupturing of the ice dam resulted in the [|Missoula Floods] – cataclysmic [|floods] that swept across [|Eastern Washington] and down the [|Columbia River Gorge] approximately 40 times during a 2,000 year period. One mystery that remains to be solved is whether Glacial Lake Missoula provided all or just part of the water that swept across the Northwest during the ice floods.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Water that Was: Unearthing the Many Secrets of Glacial Lake Missoula [|www.umt.edu/urelations/vision/2003/28glacial.htm] **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mystery of the MegaFlood (NOVA) [|www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/megaflood/lake.html] **
 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Ghostly Images in Water Vapor <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> []   **<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">AIRS is a facility instrument whose goal is to support climate research and improve weather forecasting. This animation of the water vapor moving across the earth’s surface shows ghostly patterns as the vapor moves across the globe. <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * Hoodoos** [|**http://www.nps.gov/brca/naturescience/hoodoos.htm**] Hoodoos are tall, isolated rock formations that are common in dry regions of sedimentary rock. The defining feature of either one of these is that its shape is bizarre or fantastic. And a proper hoodoo (the word is the same as //voodoo//), it seems, must look like an image of the spirits that populate the voodoo cosmology—that is, it needs to be spooky. That's a curious eruption of folklore in a scientific glossary, and just another reason to love geology. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Forest Rings [|www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/science/forest-rings.html] **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Forest rings are annuli of sparse growth amid dense stands of trees both inside and outside the rings. The barren rings -- some 2,000 have been found -- appear light-colored against the dark green of the healthy forest growth. At first expanding rings of fungus infection were suspected, something perhaps like the fungus that creates those fairy rings on lawns. But no fungus has been found on the tree roots. These circular depressions support mainly peat and tamaracks. What causes these ring-shaped depressions?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">See also **** Spooky Science: Physics ****<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> for **** Spooky Astronomy **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">