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Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-05 | Page 6 | Geologist Compares Manifestation of Lone Mountain to Cook's Stove

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Date 1933-10-05
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City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Geologist Compares Manifestation of Lone Mountain to Cook's Stove
Type article
Date 1933-10-05
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 6
OCR Text Geologist Compares Comares Manifestation Of Lone Mountain to Cooks Cook's Stove W WASHINGTON Oct 5 s Car R-Car- ff Car Carbon bon mountain Colorados Colorado's seething rumbling and rambling hill hUl is that way because its it's just like a huge cook stove the housewife went off oft and forgot Such was the scientific explanation of John B. B geologist at the national museum here of or this w weeks week's ks latest manifestation of the lone mountain moun moun- tam tain that apparently wants to be a range It and threw down hundreds hundreds hun hun- of tons of rock taking its own top op off olf sixty to one hundred feet so the Colorado accounts said Theres nothing volcanic about It It t said who knows Carbon mountain intimately Durango Is a coal district and near the base of Carbon mountain is a coal bed twenty twenty ty feet teet thick The mountains mountain's heat smoke and smell is due to the combustion of that coal in the ground Coal fires can start naturally by chemical action or by lightning striking Or they ma may start through the carelessness of 01 min rain ers It n would be my guess that carelessness careless careless- ness at some time started the coal beds of Carbon mountain burning As this bed of coal burns to ash everything above bove it has ha to come down Everything above it also has been dried cracked and loosened by the heat Above the Carbon mountain coal there happen to be soft rocks clay and All this is in excellent condition to start moving if it is helped by tor tor- thundershowers late in the season Sometime Sometimes such coal beds burn burrs slowly for tor years th the air needed for tor combustion seeping In slowly through the cracks In the rocks As long as that coal bed continues to burn the mountain will move as the ro rocks ks above are displaced during storms And once It gets to moving it goes a long way Given enough moisture to soften somewhat that baked arid and loosened material it is Js likely to move like a stream
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