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Esopus Guitars Launches New Acoustic/Electric Bass
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OK, so I looked at the website again, and the bass includes a “Fully Carved Solid Spruce top with thumb rest carved into the top.”
So what’s all this Brouhaha? Ha, ha, ha.
Apologies, I may have been wrong about the name derivation; there is an alternate Native American derivation cited. Who knows?
For the geology nerds in the audience: the upper Esopus drainage follows the outline of an ancient Meteor impact crater. How freaking cool is THAT??? <Wikipedia>
Circular pattern of Esopus headwaters and Woodland Creek, indicating past location of crater walls
Natural history
The Esopus's upper course was set 375 million years ago in the Devonian period, when the Catskills were still a river delta of low sedimentary beaches and the shallow channels between them to a large inland sea that corresponds to the location today of the Allegheny Plateau. A meteor impact during this time left an approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) wide craterwhose walls correspond to the courses of the upper Esopus and Woodland Creek today. Geologist Yngvar Isachsen of the New York State Geological Survey discovered the traces of the meteor impact, including a higher fault density in the bedrock on the Esopus, in the late 20th century
So what’s all this Brouhaha? Ha, ha, ha.
Apologies, I may have been wrong about the name derivation; there is an alternate Native American derivation cited. Who knows?
For the geology nerds in the audience: the upper Esopus drainage follows the outline of an ancient Meteor impact crater. How freaking cool is THAT??? <Wikipedia>
Circular pattern of Esopus headwaters and Woodland Creek, indicating past location of crater walls
Natural history
The Esopus's upper course was set 375 million years ago in the Devonian period, when the Catskills were still a river delta of low sedimentary beaches and the shallow channels between them to a large inland sea that corresponds to the location today of the Allegheny Plateau. A meteor impact during this time left an approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) wide craterwhose walls correspond to the courses of the upper Esopus and Woodland Creek today. Geologist Yngvar Isachsen of the New York State Geological Survey discovered the traces of the meteor impact, including a higher fault density in the bedrock on the Esopus, in the late 20th century
Is there anywhere we can see/hear one of these? A cursory check of YouTube, etc. didn't turn up anything useful.
