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Rocks That Move… Mystery Solved!

The rocks which move across The Racetrack playa in Death Valley have been seen moving… video added to the blog post:
…continued:  http://activesole.blogspot.com/2014/08/racetrack-sailing-stones-witnessed.html
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Mstery solved: the rocks on The Racetrack in Dath Valley have been seen moving! http://activesole.blogspot.com/2014/08/racetrack-sailing-stones-witnessed.html

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32 thoughts on “Rocks That Move… Mystery Solved!”

  1. Yes! Has to do with mountain peaks and this the strech of land being like a wind tunnel. Water seeping from the earth causing a layer of ice and then causing the rocks to slide across the l land. Something like that.

  2. +David Runyon The movement rate is discussed in the research reports referenced on the Web site for the Sailing Stones Research Initiative (http://www.racetrackplaya.org/), and in the videos on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrWB_dkM4JuKMofChYAWj9Q
    It's slower than you might expect, a few meters per minute.
    You can see it at 2:58 in their longest video "How rocks move" too: http://youtu.be/MgZ_hlyiKgY?list=PLlLN6Bdq3jrnO9lgcOF8Jvcdy6anx3GDO

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