User talk:Bbreynolds

Cape Cod Canal
Thank you for removing the plate tectonics comments. I am a civil engineer with a working knowledge of glacial geology, and those statements seemed inconsistent with my on-site observations when I first read the article. I lacked the cite specific geological knowledge and formal education to give me the confidence to remove them; but I had hoped someone would take the appropriate action as you have. Thewellman (talk) 08:07, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

I tried earlier to give you a direct and personal reply, but I guess I do not know the WikiWorld well enough to do that successfully. I have a background in civil engineering, history, and urban planning: a side excursion in Vietnam gave me a fulltime career in computer systems, which I have continued until the present. I am not oriented to the WikiWorld, and have only replied to two articles where I saw a "no way, Jose" error. This was certainly the case with the Cape Cod Canal article. My parents built a house in North Eastham in the mid- 1960s and I crossed over many times until I sold the house from my father's estate in the late 1980s. While working on my Ph. D. in urban planning history, I took at course in coastal geomorphology, and could do the lab work on a daily basis on the Outer Cape. In addition to the Cape Cod Canal book by Farson (Wesleyan 1977), my knowledge of the Cape process is from Morris Davies' Geographical Essays book of 1909 (should have a Dover reprint), Strahler's A Geologist's View of Cape Cod, and Chamberlain's These Fragile Outposts. I can't bring these books to the table tonight, but when I have them all together, I will rewrite the history sections of the article.

Bruce B. Reynolds, Trailing Edge Technologies, Glenside PA Bbreynolds (talk) 22:39, 20 February 2009 (UTC)