Re: [meteorite-list] A Blast From Heaven?

[tracy latimer]

That is correct.  Most of Molokai's north side, for example (where Kalaupapa 
peninsula is now, the site of the infamous leper colony), was a victim of 
one of those huge landslips millions of years ago, and the Hawaiian islands 
have a record of big pieces of various islands cracking off and falling into 
the sea, generating huge tsunamis.  There are marine deposits over 1000' 
high on Lanai that are attributed to such an occurrence.  There is another 
island in the Azores that is being closely watched for just such a 
landslide; it has the potential to wipe out most ports in the Atlantic.

Tracy Latimer


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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A Blast From Heaven?
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 10:13:57 EST
In a message dated 12/4/2003 8:57:57 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>At one place, Jervis
Bay, waves apparently surmounted a headland 420 feet high. "Only a
bolide could do this," says Bryant, using a technical term for a
sky-bursting cosmic missile.<<
Well...I've read sometime in the past that land slumping off various 
islands
can do this as well. Such a place that has done it in the past are the
hawaiian islands. There's a big crack in one of the islands now, that is 
apparently
doing a slow move towards a massive land slide into the ocean. Some of 
these
slides occur totally underwater. From what I've read, there's been quite a 
few
of these to have occurred thru out history.
George Zay
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