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WTC bedrock / Manhattan schist

This is exactly what the bedrock under the towers looked like before being melted: .... http://geology.about.com/od/more_metrocks/ig/metamorphics/NYCschist... .... After being melted , the rock looked like gray ice cream with a white

swirl. I would suspect the white swirl is melted mica and other quartz. I guess you would call it glass at that point.

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Comment by Danny White on July 31, 2011 at 10:52pm: I'm a little worried about the source of this one .... Silverstein Properties .... but it looks like good info: ....

http://www.wtc.com/media/videos/Glacial%20Features%20of%20NYC%20Bed...

Comment by Danny White on July 31, 2011 at 9:22pm: nice color layout of the bathtub and building locations: .... http://old.911digitalarchive.org/crr/documents/1424.pdf

Comment by Danny White on July 31, 2011 at 6:33pm: I'm going to have to rethink the melted rock idea, after finding this article with outcrop photos of the Manhattan schist found in Central Park. .... http://people.gl.ciw.edu/ecottrell/glaciers/Glaciers_in_NY_Intro.pdf .... The swirling feature in the schist is a result of "folding" under intense heat and pressure as a glacier moves over sedimentary rock. The semi-molten sedimentary rock is kind of

"rolled" I guess to make the swirls. I used to

have a similar schist (packsaddle schist) in my yard, which had similar swirls in places .... now that I think about it. I went

outside and looked at some packsaddle schist samples in my yard ... Uh oh .... I'm researching the huge hole inside the slurry

wall on the south-east corner next to building 2 which was 200ft long, and varied from 40-70ft deep ..... There was severe damage to the slurry

wall at that point, but I don't think river water could enter there ...

There was actually quite a

bit of damage to the slurry wall, as it turns out. Something like 40% was relatively undamaged. ... Well, I just wanted to

try to get the "melted rock" thing straight. Sorry for the confusion. I'll have to do my homework before I open my

mouth next time. I'm no geologist, just trying to make sense of this stuff. I'm having to learn it as I go. There is some

very interesting geology going on around Manhattan for anyone interested in that sort of thing.

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