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- Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
- Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!markw
- From: markw@meaddata.com (Mark Wasson)
- Subject: The Mystery of the OWL
- Sender: news@meaddata.com (Usenet Administrator)
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:02:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.170207.9622@meaddata.com>
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- I picked up a copy of January 1993 Earth magazine and came across a
- story called "The Mystery of the OWL" (by Ellen Morris Bishop). OWL
- is defined as the Olympic-Wallowa Lineament, a 350-mile "crenelated
- gash" that passes through eastern Oregon and Washington, from the
- Snake River Plain to the Olympic Peninsula, and the term OWL is used
- thoughout the article. Minor earthquakes occur along the OWL's
- faults.
-
- Satellite photos and topograpical images show an alignment of hills,
- valleys and dissected mountains, but it is not understood why these
- features line up. Researchers "know what the parts of the OWL are,
- but they don't know what the OWL is as a whole." ... "The least
- understood part of the OWL is its northern stretch in Washington."
-
- This undoubtedly has absolutely nothing to do with Twin Peaks, but I
- like the coincidence. Recall that Major Briggs said that the Air
- Force turned its deep space monitoring to the ground around Twin
- Peaks. It turns out that there actually is a 350-mile long OWL
- under the ground of Washington State.
-
- (By the way, this was the first time I had seen the magazine, and I
- picked it up for articles on the Rockies and on sand dunes. The
- magazine made a really good first impression - clear, concise writing.
- I'd recommend it.)
-
- Mark
-