[Moderator's Note: Content unaltered. Excessive quoting (including headers/footers/sig lines/extraneous text from previous posts, etc.) have been removed. Please edit quoted material in addition to removing header/trailers when replying to posts.] > PeterO queried: >Joe wrote: - >>Lightning often hits beaches, and the intense heat >>often produces melted sand (i.e. glass) tubes called >>fulgurites. > >Is the colloquial name "sand dollars" I seem to remember a John Steinbeck >story in which beach sand melted by lightning strikes is mentioned and for >some reason the phrase "sand dollars" springs to mind. The sand dollar is Echinarachnius parma. See http://octopus.gma.org/Tidings/sanddollar.html C *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Oct 31 2003 - 07:59:20 PST
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