Posted on 07/09/2009 3:10:20 PM PDT by TaraP
You posted a live link to your AOL inbox email??
They only have one dinky picture.
I know. It was Sarah palin’s anouncement that did it.
Even if the exact cause and timing of the uplift presents a puzzle, I don't think you can really say it's a huge surprise, geologically speaking, that some kind of shift would occur at the base of these cliffs, which show obvious signs of slumping in the geologically recent past.
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, Chapter XIV - Chiloe and Concepcion : Great Earthquake
Maybe there is a Supervolcano down beneath?
I think this is a result of slumping, as speculated in the article, “A huge land mass above the zone might have slipped,...”
I suppose that the mild shaking due to small or distant earthquakes could trigger some kind of slippage in the cliffs. According to the article, the uplift cannot be accounted for by a local fault movement, since this would have been felt locally as a severe earthquake. Also, I think that the area of uplift is very small and isolated.
This sort of impression is typical of the "decadent phase" of modern science. "Decadent" here is a term of art, and refers to the stagnation, or solidification, if you will, in the fundamental theories of science, with the advances occurring in application and "filling in details".
As working scientists work at more and more refined levels, things do get a lot hazier, and one sees only a flat plateau, forgetting the height that has been climbed to attain it.
Where's the WAG in an iPhone? This technology is BTWD of fifties SciFi. Just try reading some.
You would have to compare this map with a sampling of others like it. I checked the “archives” but they didn’t have this type of map in them, that I could see. At any rate, if there’s something big cookin’, we’ll know in due time.
Looks like a good time to head to Homer and pick up a truck load of beach coal.
I would love to see a before and after shot of the whole area.
![]() |
||
· join · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post new topic · | ||
|
|||
Gods |
Thanks fanfan. |
||
· Discover · Nat Geographic · Texas AM Anthro News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · Google · · The Archaeology Channel · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists · |
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/darwin/charles/beagle/complete.html
“...It is impossible to reflect on the changed state of the American continent without the deepest astonishment. Formerly it must have swarmed with great monsters: now we find mere pigmies, compared with the antecedent allied races. If Buffon had known of the gigantic sloth and armadillo-like animals, and of the lost Pachydermata, he might have said with a greater semblance of truth that the creative force in America had lost its power, rather than that it had never possessed great vigour. The greater number, if not all, of these extinct quadrupeds lived at a late period, and were the contemporaries of most of the existing sea-shells. Since they lived, no very great change in the form of the land can have taken place. What, then, has exterminated so many species and whole genera? The mind at first is irresistibly hurried into the belief of some great catastrophe; but thus to destroy animals, both large and small, in Southern Patagonia, in Brazil, on the Cordillera of Peru, in North America up to Behring’s Straits, we must shake the entire framework of the globe...”
I always enjoy reading from Darwin’s Journals. He describes what he sees and tries his best not to step on uniformitarian toes...but doesn’t really succeed.
Actually if this area is near Redoubt, an active volcano, the uplift could be due to a phenomanon call “inflation” in which liquid magma builds up under a land area. The fact that they have not had much in the way of earthquakes suggests that if this is happening, then the magma must be at quite a deep level. Any other volcano buffs had some ideas or info? I think I will Google Redoubt and see if I can find their seismic info.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.