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"MICHIGAN CITY – A ground-penetrating radar survey found dozens of anomalies in a large sand dune along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Northern Indiana where an Illinois boy was buried under 11 feet of sand last summer.
But scientists still aren’t sure what caused the dune to swallow the youngster.
National Parks Service geologists are reviewing the report, which shows that Mount Baldy at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore contains 66 anomalous spots where there’s something other than sand beneath the dune, lakeshore spokesman Bruce Rowe said. Some of those spots are probably tree stumps or holes, but at least six of the anomalies are metal objects, he said.
“All national parks have some dangers within them,” Rowe told WSBT-TV. “ The thing that’s different here with Mount Baldy is we really don’t know what’s going, on so we really don’t know what to warn people about.”
The 126-foot-high dune has been closed since July 12, when then-6-year-old Nathan Woessner, Sterling, Ill., was buried for more than three hours. The youngster survived and returned home after being hospitalized for two weeks.
The report on the dune’s composition was compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which used ground-penetrating radar to inspect the dune after the boy’s ordeal.
Scientists from all over the nation have scrutinized the dune to try to determine what created the apparent sinkhole.
Researchers with the National Park Service’s Geologic Resources Division in Colorado are expected to give their analysis to park officials by the end of February. They’ll also make recommendations on additional research or testing to be done."
http://ux.indystar.com/story/news/2...s-found-in-dune-where-boy-was-buried/5344603/
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But scientists still aren’t sure what caused the dune to swallow the youngster.
National Parks Service geologists are reviewing the report, which shows that Mount Baldy at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore contains 66 anomalous spots where there’s something other than sand beneath the dune, lakeshore spokesman Bruce Rowe said. Some of those spots are probably tree stumps or holes, but at least six of the anomalies are metal objects, he said.
“All national parks have some dangers within them,” Rowe told WSBT-TV. “ The thing that’s different here with Mount Baldy is we really don’t know what’s going, on so we really don’t know what to warn people about.”
The 126-foot-high dune has been closed since July 12, when then-6-year-old Nathan Woessner, Sterling, Ill., was buried for more than three hours. The youngster survived and returned home after being hospitalized for two weeks.
The report on the dune’s composition was compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which used ground-penetrating radar to inspect the dune after the boy’s ordeal.
Scientists from all over the nation have scrutinized the dune to try to determine what created the apparent sinkhole.
Researchers with the National Park Service’s Geologic Resources Division in Colorado are expected to give their analysis to park officials by the end of February. They’ll also make recommendations on additional research or testing to be done."
http://ux.indystar.com/story/news/2...s-found-in-dune-where-boy-was-buried/5344603/
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