Ridgefield is radioactive!!
So, I was watching the Colbert Report and Colbert was going on about editting Wikipedia and having good fun with that. This got me thinking and I went to Wikipedia to check out Ridgefield.
Check out this geology! Tis uber kickass and I never knew!
A particularly interesting feature is Cameron's Line, named for Eugene N. Cameron, who discovered that rocks west of the line differed greatly from those east of it. This fault line was formed some 250 million years ago by the collison of "Proto North America" and "Proto Africa," and there are still occasional light earthquakes felt along its length.
EARTHQUAKES! Can we have an earthquake day? Seems as likely as a snow day right about now!
However, here is the best part:
Uraninite, a source of uranium, is found here, too. Uraninite, according to Wikipedia: "All uraninite minerals contain a small amount of radium as a radioactive decay product of uranium."
KICK ASS!
Therefore, our town is slightly radioactive. Certainly explains a lot, eh? And the brilliance is that it's too small to be detected but totally still there, messing with our town just enough to mess it up. And turn it in to Ridgefield as it is now.
I <3 Wikipedia!
Check out this geology! Tis uber kickass and I never knew!
A particularly interesting feature is Cameron's Line, named for Eugene N. Cameron, who discovered that rocks west of the line differed greatly from those east of it. This fault line was formed some 250 million years ago by the collison of "Proto North America" and "Proto Africa," and there are still occasional light earthquakes felt along its length.
EARTHQUAKES! Can we have an earthquake day? Seems as likely as a snow day right about now!
However, here is the best part:
Uraninite, a source of uranium, is found here, too. Uraninite, according to Wikipedia: "All uraninite minerals contain a small amount of radium as a radioactive decay product of uranium."
KICK ASS!
Therefore, our town is slightly radioactive. Certainly explains a lot, eh? And the brilliance is that it's too small to be detected but totally still there, messing with our town just enough to mess it up. And turn it in to Ridgefield as it is now.
I <3 Wikipedia!