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Undersea slide set off giant flow
BBC News ^ | 22 November 2007 | Paul Rincon

Posted on 11/22/2007 3:56:49 PM PST by george76

An enormous underwater landslide 60,000 years ago produced the longest flow of sand and mud yet found on Earth. The landslide off the coast of north-west Africa dumped 225 billion metric tonnes of sediment into the ocean in a matter of hours or days.

The flow travelled 1,500km (932 miles) - the distance from London to Rome - before depositing its sediment.

The work, by a British team of researchers has been published in the academic journal Nature.

The massive surge put down the same amount of sediment that comes out of all the world's rivers combined over a period of 10 years.

After blocks from the original landslide disintegrated, the sand and mud travelled hundreds of kilometres suspended in the water, without depositing any sediment on the sea floor that it had passed over.

Dr Talling likened this to avalanches in which the snow travels downslope in huge clouds.

A tiny drop in the sea-floor gradient (from 0.05 degrees to 0.01 degrees) eventually forced the flow to settle into a cohesive mass.

In places, the flow was over 150km (93 miles) wide, spread across the open sea floor.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; antarctic; antarctica; atlantis; bushsfault; catastrophism; doggerland; elaincident; extinction; geologists; godsgravesglyphs; impact; landslide; massextinction; mesolithic; norway; oceanography; scotland; scotlandyet; slide; slip; southamerica; storegga; storeggaslide; storeggaslip; tsunami; tsunamis; undersea; underwater; velaincident
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To: potlatch

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LOL!


41 posted on 11/23/2007 9:55:12 PM PST by devolve (---- -Secret_Asian_Man_&_Dr.No-No_Sorass_-)
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To: potlatch

Thanks


42 posted on 11/23/2007 9:55:15 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: devolve

Shoot, I should have used html to make it more narrow, lol.


43 posted on 11/23/2007 9:58:21 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: george76; devolve

You are quite welcome george!


44 posted on 11/23/2007 9:58:50 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: SunkenCiv

I’m guessing this was caused by the continental drift, when Africa first split off from the Americas. In other worlds, there was a bit of land-floor spreading before sea-floor spreading got started.


45 posted on 11/24/2007 5:40:30 AM PST by Berosus ("The candidates that can't face Fox News can't face Al Qaeda."--Roger Ailes)
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To: potlatch
Can’t even use my own urls now, lol!

SURE you can!!

In the upper right corner you'll find the PAGE icon.

Press it and see the menu.

Select VEIW SOURCE and you'll get the HTML of the page.

You should then be able to find what you need.

(Sorry SNOPES!)

46 posted on 11/24/2007 5:44:03 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
 
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47 posted on 11/24/2007 5:47:02 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: george76
Well, we can only hope California slides into the ocean before they manage to export all their liberals here. :-))
48 posted on 11/26/2007 9:36:53 AM PST by colorado tanker (I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
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The Catastrophic Final Flooding of Doggerland by the Storegga Slide Tsunami
Bernhard Weninger, Kevan Edinborough, Rick Schulting,
Mark Collard, Olaf Joris, Eelco Rohling, and Johanna Hilpert
http://www.academia.edu/437214/The_Catastrophic_Final_Flooding_of_Doggerland_by_the_Storegga_Slide_Tsunami


49 posted on 05/31/2016 12:45:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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