In a message dated 7/28/2007 1:33:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Sounds to me (note caveat, for which our stone experts will flay me) like
some sort of weak (coral poop?) or otherwise poorly-consolidated strata in the
stone , which may or may not have been apparent at the time of quarrying and/or
erection.
Kind of funny that the may-not-have-been-apparent-at-the-time-of-erection
striations are 90-95% in one direction.
Probably just a coincidence. Like the fourth gunshot from the grassy knoll.
yrs Exner
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