Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen. Image: Traveler100 (Wikimedia, used under a CC BY-NC 3.0)
1 posted on
07/15/2014 4:22:50 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Must have been quite a Flood.
3 posted on
07/15/2014 4:25:01 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
To: SunkenCiv
Some of the largest tsunamis known have been generated within closed waters where the amplitude of the wave is created because of the constriction of the geography. In 1958 (07/09),
an earthquake caused a landslide into Lituya Bay in Alaska, a constricted fiord bordering upon 3 glaciers in the southern panhandle. The resulting wave reached a height of 1,720 feet (524 m) as measured by the affected foliage. This is the world record for a historical tsunami.
This gives a whole new meaning to that common term, "100 year flood", doesn't it?
6 posted on
07/15/2014 4:43:06 PM PDT by
SES1066
(Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
To: SunkenCiv
“Chalcolithic Catastrophe”
Sounds like a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor.
To: SunkenCiv
This whole copper thing has fascinated me for years. When I was a Kid I was taught that some WOG discovered it in his camp fire. Wilhelm Von Loon.
So I conducted an experiment, while working for a very large company that gave me little to do under slack supervision.
I built a furnace of refractory brick, several bricks stacked in a circle with a small opening on side. The crucible was a 6” steel cap.
I took some scrap copper and tossed into the pot and applied 3000 degree heat from an H2O2 torch. No melt after Eight hours.
13 posted on
07/16/2014 11:19:54 AM PDT by
Little Bill
(EVICT Queen Jean)
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