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Monday, September 3, 2018

The Market, Energy, And Political Page, T+22 -- September 3, 2018

Pre-market, Sunday night: the Dow, irrelevant, is up 50 points in futures this evening.

From tomorrow's Wall Street Journal:
Speaking of which.

This past week I linked a lot of financial sites to my bank. Wow. I can now afford Starbucks.

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The Book Page

River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea, Colin Fletcher, 1997.

From page 9: The author explains how he decided to raft the Colorado River, from the source to the ocean. And then goes on:
That done, I had to define "the Colorado."

The name originally applied only to the waterway below the junction of the Green and the Grand Rivers.

Then, in 1921 -- the year of my conception -- under pressure from booster politicians in the state of Colorado, the Grand was renamed: the main river and the former Grand became, together, "the Colorado."

But because the Green is 300 miles longer than the former Grand (it also drains a larger area), geographers regard it as the "master stream," and its headwaters in Wyoming as the source of the Colorado. I was happy to go along with the geographers -- especially as all reports had the Green wilder and less spoiled, with a source more befitting a major river.
A great time to review the geology of the Grand Canyon and the timeline of the earth.

Quick: why did the Colorado River cut a  mile-deep gorge rather than a broad valley that most rivers form? The link above answers the question. It also explains why the very small creeks in western North Dakota cut such sharp mini-canyons.

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Seasons In The Sun

Seasons in the Sun, Terry Jacks 

2 comments:

  1. "Seasons in the sun" was one of the greatest one hit wonders of all time. One of the Favs of my youth. Thats for posting it

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