![]() ![]() The Cooper Research Team went to Tena Bar in March of 2009 and found that the beach had undergone severe erosion. This lead to the Washougal Wash-Down Theory - that the money had taken several years to travel by natural processes to Tena Bar, where it was buried either with or sometime after the dredging that deposited the clay layer. Palmer interpreted that this clay layer was deposited by the dredging operation in 1974. ![]() He found several distinctive sand layers and several feet down, a clay layer, all of which were below the level of the money. This is a standard procedure to geologically understand the stratigraphic layers in the sand and map the depositional history of the beach. He proceeded to examine the area where the money was discovered and then dug an exploration trench from the waterline, east to a point high on the beach near the money. Leonard Palmer an expert on sedimentation was called in. In 1980 when three bundles of money was found just beneath the surface of the sand on Tena Bar, associate professor of geology at Portland State University, Dr. The rubber band lifetime constrains the arrival of the bills on Tena Bar to less than one year. Interpretation: The rubber bands could not have remained intact over the several years they took to reach Tena Bar as would be required based on the Palmer Report.įurther interpretation: The clay layers beneath the beach are in fact natural occurrences indicating that the Cooper bills were not deposited there after the dredging. Interpretation: Palmer's original report claiming the clay layer was a result of the dredging was inaccurate.įact: The rubber bands were found intact on the bundles of cash.Įxperimental fact: All experiments testing rubber band survival in nature determined they did not last 12 months. Fact: Modern day Tena Bar is severely eroded and exposing natural clay layers that run the length of the beach.įact: The Palmer Report discovered and interpreted a buried clay layer as man-made from the dredging operation. ![]()
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