9 Mar
2004
9 Mar
'04
12:13 p.m.
Hi Chuck, The Moqui marbles do have some amazing similarities to the Mars thingies. What bothers me is that I collected some myself many years ago down around Coral Pink Sand Dunes. I'm not quite surrendering, but it looks grim for the blueberries as life argument. What got me is that the marbles seem to be connected to groundwater and iron. We all know about iron and Mars. What if the groundwater is percolating upward, connecting with iron and silica, and forming these things? They would tend to project out, like these seem to, and might even have "rootlets" that are tubes in the soil where the groundwater traveled. It seem reasonable. Best wishes, Joe