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Old 10-22-11, 07:54 PM   #15
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Default What lies beneath?

Ran the water. After about 8-10 minutes, it's at ~63 degrees F.
(62.8 on one sensor & 63.2 on the other).

I have a feeling that it might be due to a large thorium deposit,
since we are sitting in an area that seems to be surrounded by granite.

UMass Amherst Office of News & Information : News Releases : UMass Amherst and Connecticut Geologists Position New England for Success in the Geothermal Power Era


We have some extremely large (the size of small cars) granite boulders in the back yard.
I think these came down with a glacier and couldn't make it up the hill..
The problem is, these are partly sunken into the ground.
But have not sunk any deeper since 1973.. And they should have!
There is a swamp about 15 feet north of them!
With running water on the surface almost all year round.
The ground back there is like mush.Those rocks should be gone..
But, it seems like there is something very solid underneath them..

So, there might be a large granite formation, or bedrock very near the surface.
The house to the west of me (about 45 feet away) was built on slightly higher ground.
But, their ground floor looks MUCH higher, since their basement pit, was never dug..
Their basement floor is right at ground level. Back in 1956, the people
digging out all the basements on this street, gave up on the one next door..

I would not be at all surprised to find out there was a solid granite hill top
just a few feet under our basement floor slab..

NH, aka the Granite State is actually the Radioactive Granite State.
As they found out back in 1962..
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti.../pnas00234-002

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2011AM/fin...act_197051.htm

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