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Kyle Harris

Re:Golf in/around DuBois, PA?
« Reply #25 on: March 19, 2006, 07:02:23 PM »
Thanks Wayne,
do you know anything of their geological origins? Incredibly regular features on such a grand scale!

That Phila air must be good for you!

FBD.

Martin,

The appalachain mountain chain is something that I could go on for decades about (my family is a coal mining family). The mountains were basically formed when two ancient plates collided and cause a rumpling of the terrain. This was post "Pennsylvanian Period" which was the mass extinction of plant life a few million years ago, so the upheaval threw the coal viens on a vertical plane - and therefore strip AND deep minable.

Marty Bonnar

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Re:Golf in/around DuBois, PA?
« Reply #26 on: March 19, 2006, 07:08:25 PM »
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Martin,

The appalachain mountain chain is something that I could go on for decades about (my family is a coal mining family). The mountains were basically formed when two ancient plates collided and cause a rumpling of the terrain. This was post "Pennsylvanian Period" which was the mass extinction of plant life a few million years ago, so the upheaval threw the coal viens on a vertical plane - and therefore strip AND deep minable.

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Cheers Kyle.
This is the kind of stuff the web was meant for!
I am infatuated with geology and geography. I can't look at a bit of land without feeling the need to dig a big hole to see what's underneath! ;)

FBD.
The White River runs dark through the heart of the Town,
Washed the people coal-black from the hole in the ground.

Kyle Harris

Re:Golf in/around DuBois, PA?
« Reply #27 on: March 19, 2006, 07:11:16 PM »
Martin,

The Susquehanna River cut just north of Harrisburg, PA (on the way to heaven.... err... State College) is one of the most fascinating areas in the world for geology and geophysics as a few million years of geologic history is exposed from the river cut. The Blue, Sharp, and Second mountains are all in close proximity in this cut.

Also the home of the largest stone arch bridge in the world: The Rockville Bridge - former Pennsylvania Railroad mainline. Still used by Amtrak and I just crossed it this past week on my way back home from Penn State.

JohnV

Re:Golf in/around DuBois, PA?
« Reply #28 on: March 19, 2006, 08:57:03 PM »
FBD,  I obviously concur completely with Mr. Pazin's comments.  If you can come to see one of us, you better see both. ;)

Kyle,

The WPGA officiates at the Rutherford every year and teaches rules workshops to the golf teams, but the administration at PSU won't join the WPGA because they make a little more money off the students by joining the NCPAGA.  Oh well.

Maybe we've met, PGM students help with the scoring and officiating at the Rutherford.  :)

Kyle,  The only year I've been up there for the Rutherford was 2003.  My boss, Jeff Rivard, usually handles that one.

Kyle Harris

Re:Golf in/around DuBois, PA?
« Reply #29 on: March 19, 2006, 09:02:04 PM »
FBD,  I obviously concur completely with Mr. Pazin's comments.  If you can come to see one of us, you better see both. ;)

Kyle,

The WPGA officiates at the Rutherford every year and teaches rules workshops to the golf teams, but the administration at PSU won't join the WPGA because they make a little more money off the students by joining the NCPAGA.  Oh well.

Maybe we've met, PGM students help with the scoring and officiating at the Rutherford.  :)

Kyle,  The only year I've been up there for the Rutherford was 2003.  My boss, Jeff Rivard, usually handles that one.

I was there too. Scoring, though.

David Lott

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Re:Golf in/around DuBois, PA?
« Reply #30 on: March 20, 2006, 02:42:54 PM »
Martin: The Mountains are the Alleghenies, a part of the Appalachian chain that runs from Maine to Georgia along the east coast. They are said to be the oldest mountain range in the world, dating back to the tectonic collision of Africa and North America about 470 million years ago. This collision caused the uplift and wrinkling that created the regular banding that you see, and the hundreds of millions of years of erosion has caused a regularity in shape of the slopes. Once these mountains were as high or higher than the Hymalayas are now.

The mountains are quite lovely, and in many places still quite a wilderness. They were crucial to the success of the English colonies in North America, as they provided a barrier to the harsh winter weather that comes in from the northwest, a refuge for the native americans displaced by the colonists and protection (for the English) from the French, Spanish and Indians that dominated the area west of the mountains. The so-called French and Indian War of 1763, in which George Washington first came to prominence, was caused in part by the fact that the British settlements were starting to push west through the mountains.

When you visit, you may note some similarity to the mountains of northern Scotland, though unlike in Scotland the Appalachians are still heavily forested. They are owned in relatively small private landholdings, rather than the large tracts that I understand to be the case in Scotland. There is also a lot of public ownership and a famous hiking trail that extends from Maine to Georgia.

Here's a link to a good geologic discussion from Bucknell University, located in Pennsylvania. http://www.bucknell.edu/Academics/Colleges_Departments/Academic_Departments/Geology/Geology_of_Central_PA/Geologic_History.html

David Lott

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