Quicksand URLs: http://www.howstuffworks.com/quicksand.htm http://www.word-detective.com/howcome/quicksand.html By the way, did you know that the Old Post Office in downtown STL is build on Quicksand? Yep. Someone who was on the building team (I can't remember who) was from the South were there was a lot of quicksand and he knew that when you put cotton into quicksand it became very hard like concrete in our world today. So the large and heavy Post Office hasn't sunk in decades. Ok, here is a URL about the Post Office too. http://w3.gsa.gov/web/p/interaia_save.nsf/0/6fe1fa3da0aa2516852565d900539fae?OpenDocument http://www.slfp.com/031202City.htm http://www.umsl.edu/~cfh/city00-drey.html this has the info about it being built on quicksand Laura ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jims505@aol.com> To: <MO-STLOUIS-METRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:30 PM Subject: [StL-Metro] Earth Quakes and Quicksand. > The question I asked about earth quakes was supposed to lead up to this > question, but I became so engrossed in the responses on earthquakes I almost got > lost: > > Could the 1811 earth quake have caused pools of quicksand to form as far away > from the Mississippi as Valley Park where the Meramec River flows under I-44 > nearest to St Louis? One of which I was caught in up to my knees in 1945. It > was very near to the site where they were working that rock quarry. (My sister > told me not to play hooky that day.)----Jim > > > ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== > To ask for a lookup or volunteer to do acts of genealogical kindess, visit Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://www.RAOGK.org. > >