[Artemisia] You know you've been in Artemisia when...

[Jeff Webster]

So Therasia,
This short dissertation truly answers all the questions, you do have "rocks 
in your head"
although the "Thousand Eyes" reference was precious.

ducking, running away and looking back over my shoulder all the while,  ;o)

Ulric

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>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:09:47 -0700
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>There's a place on the Snake River, not too far from where Coronation was 
>at, called Thousand Springs.  It's where the Snake River Aquifer discharges 
>out of the basalt-sided cliffs in the canyon of the Snake River near 
>Hagerman, west of Twin Falls.  Let me digress briefly on this aquifer.  It 
>is the largest basalt-hosted aquifer in the world, and also the most 
>prolific.  The bulk of the snowpac that falls on the Beaverheads, Tetons, 
>Grand Targhees and Yellowstone melts and gets sucked out of the forks of 
>the Snake River and into the aquifer.  That's a lot of water, folks, and 
>since most of the world's french fries are grown using this resource, the 
>aquifer is pretty important, not just to folks in Idaho, but to fast-food 
>lovers everywhere.
>
>So what does this have to do with Artemisia?  Well, I'm getting there.  
>Patience, bubula, patience...
>
>As you may or may not know, I spend most of my days at work thinking deep 
>meaningful thoughts about the rocks that host the Snake River Aquifer.  
>That's a lot of rocks, all of the East Snake River Plain, in fact.  You may 
>find it hard to believe that a big boring pile of basalt with some water in 
>it captivates my days, but hey, it beats working for a living...   ;-)
>
>So what does this have to do with Artemisia?  Well, I'm getting there.  
>Patience, bubula, patience...
>
>Now, lately, things have been looking kinda glum around our house.  There 
>was a death in my family recently, and though it was not a great surprise 
>at the end of a long illness, it still managed to throw me for a loop, 
>enough so that I was not able to get to Denver last week to give a paper on 
>that big boring pile of basalt.  I really wanted to give that paper.  It 
>would have been a show stopper.  I have evidence that not too long ago, the 
>Big Lost River had an entirely different route than the one it has today.  
>Now, this route I've found cuts south across the plain, UNDER the Craters 
>of the Moon, where there is no water today, and then southwest to the Snake 
>River.  The place where this abandoned river channel meets up  with the 
>Snake River is at Thousand Springs, where the modern aquifer cascades out 
>of the cliffs and into the river.
>
>So what does this have to do with Artemisia?  Well, I'm getting there.  
>Patience, bubula, patience...
>
>If the hypothesized abandoned river channel is real, it has the potential 
>of rewriting the geologic history of the East Snake River Plain.  I really 
>wanted to give this paper at the meeting in Denver.  I won't have another 
>opportunity to present this research until next May.  To stay productive 
>until then, I need to churn out my results and get them published.  Since 
>last Wednesday, I've taken my presentation materials and converted them 
>into 50 pages of a draft journal article.  I gave my collaborators copies, 
>which most have read.
>
>So what does this have to do with Artemisia?  Well, we're finally there.  
>Here's a quote that everyone noticed from the draft article:
>
>"...there may be channel deposits in the subsurface extending from the town 
>of Arco, under the Craters of the Moon, and westward towards the discharge 
>area of the Snake River Aquifer at Thousand Eyes."
>
>I'm never going to hear the end of this at work...
>
>ttfn
>Therasia von AwesomeTypos
>
>
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