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Geology Pictures of the Week, March 30 - April 5, 2008: No Longer the 12 Apostles
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Posted on 04/03/2008 7:10:51 AM PDT by cogitator
I don't remember how I found this out, but I recently heard that one of the picturesque coastal stacks in the famous "12 Apostles" group on the Australian coast had fallen. So herewith are two pictures. The first is the classic view; the second is the new view with the missing stack.
The 12 Apostles
The 11 Apostles
Actually, there may have been 12 Apostles awhile ago, but I don't think there are that many now.
Here's a page about the national park there and another photo-documentation of the collapse. It sure looked solid in the first picture...
Port Campbell National Park
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: australia; coast; crash; stacks
Erosion happens.
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posted on
04/03/2008 7:10:51 AM PDT
by
cogitator
To: 2Trievers; headsonpikes; Pokey78; Lil'freeper; epsjr; sauropod; Miss Marple; CPT Clay; ...
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posted on
04/03/2008 7:12:05 AM PDT
by
cogitator
To: cogitator
I’m sure global warming caused it to fall.
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posted on
04/03/2008 7:12:23 AM PDT
by
ladtx
( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
To: cogitator
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posted on
04/03/2008 7:18:54 AM PDT
by
Tolkien
(Freedom comes with the Highest of Costs. The Cost of Blood)
To: cogitator
Is the name of the fallen Apostle Judas Iscariot?
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posted on
04/03/2008 7:40:04 AM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
To: NCC-1701
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posted on
04/03/2008 10:23:02 AM PDT
by
urabus
To: cogitator
Wow, from the park link it says there were witnesses to the collapse. Talk about a once-in a-lifetime sight.
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posted on
04/03/2008 10:58:53 AM PDT
by
GATOR NAVY
(Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.)
To: cogitator
Unbelievable photography here. Thanks for sharing it.
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posted on
04/03/2008 11:40:26 AM PDT
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
To: GATOR NAVY
Wow, from the park link it says there were witnesses to the collapse. Talk about a once-in a-lifetime sight.Wow, indeed!
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posted on
04/03/2008 3:44:50 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(The fence is "absolutely not the answer" - Gov. Rick Perry (R, TX))
To: cogitator
'London Bridge' on the Great Ocean Road, before collapse.
several tourists were stranded, none hurt.
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posted on
04/03/2008 8:06:42 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(a fair dinkum aussie)
To: cogitator
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posted on
04/03/2008 8:08:28 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(HILLARY CARE = DYING IN LINE!)
To: NCC-1701
They should expect two more rock formation to take this one’s place.
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posted on
04/07/2008 6:09:00 AM PDT
by
demshateGod
(the GOP is dead to me)
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