This IS geyser related - just figuring out the length of the runoff channel (c:) Udo Freund Ruth & Leslie Quinn wrote: > A message from Leslie Quinn ruthleslie at ispwest.com > <mailto:ruthleslie at ispwest.com> > > So what would be the length of the > Mississippi-Missouri-Yellowstone-Atlantic Creek-Two Ocean Pass-Pacific > Creek-Snake River-Columbia River? If memory serves, at "The Parting of > the Waters" (just north of Two Ocean Pass and intimately connected > with it) it gives the distances as around 1300+ miles to the Pacific > and 3700+ to the Atlantic, which would make around 5000 miles, > although I might not be remembering correctly. On the other hand, the > old saw that a fish could use it to swim from one ocean to the other > isn't really true, as the Lower Falls would be a tough one to jump, > and if you wanted to travel east the Snake has a few of its own as > well. But probably someone having fun with some fractals could throw > all the figures on their heads anyway... > > Weren't we supposed to talk about geysers here? > > Just one of the rabble, > Leslie > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Geysers mailing list >Geysers at wwc.edu >https://mailman.wwc.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: </geyser-list/attachments/20041210/690c2fea/attachment.html>