Massive, Violent Landslide Created Zion National Park, Study Says

weather.com ^ | Ada Carr

[norwaypinesavage]

I did it in my head, with out references. That’s why I said “more than”.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[Mike Darancette]

A wall 900 miles high?

And moving 90 miles/second? 340,000 mph?

[SunkenCiv]

...It's believed that the event took place around 4,800 years ago.

Thanks BenLurkin. Of course, since it was 900 miles high and moved at 90 miles per second, and that can't be right, it must have happened only 48 years ago. ;')

[bert]

In my view, Zion lacks the raw beauty of the other Utah National Parks

[SunkenCiv]

Listen to the jingle, the rumble, and the roar... same approximate date:

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[SunkenCiv]

The Saidmarreh Landslide
http://geology.com/landslides/saidmarreh-landslide.shtml

Largest Landslides in the World
http://geology.com/records/largest-landslide.shtml

[shotgun]

Lost me right there. So this mountain range extended out of the earth’s atmosphere?

[blam]

Thanks.

[Farmer Dean]

Worst case of editing and proof reading ever.

[arthurus]

If it hadn’t collapsed our satellites would bump into it. And 90 miles a second? The writer learned his physics and math in Public School, I think. When he looked over the piece before turning it in it probably all looked okay to him.

[shotgun]

I don’t know how these “writers and editors” can allow this stuff to be posted online. Either some one blew this assignment or their trying to get a job as a technical writer for the next IPCC report.

[Rebelbase]

“Miles or meters or feet? Once again, the illiteracy of the media.”

Hey, it passed spell check. What more is there? /s

[Rebelbase]

I’d like to see the debris pile from a collapsed wall that had been 900 miles tall.

[Billthedrill]

I'm guessing there's a problem with the units of measurement there. By my calculations that wall was approximately 12.3 high. And those fragments were smoking along at 7.

They're my units, dang it. They can mean anything I want. If you don't like them, get yer own units.

[piytar]

Envision about a quarter of the moon (mean radius about 1,080 miles) landing on the Earth and then collapsing.

/most journalists are morons

[glock rocks]

The highest peak at Snowbird is 11,000 feet. My kids are ski lift formen. That’s roughly two miles.

Two.

LMAO ... WTF ... etc., etc ...

[JimRed]

I guess proof reading is a lost art.

Reading comprehension has suffered mightily.