Hi Tracy, Tks. for your interesting info. I would like to know more about that island in the Azores (?) being watched for a possible massive landslide. If my memory is right, I think that I read (quite sometime ago, some 2 yrs ago or so), about something similar - but refering to one of the Canary islands - not the Azores? Could you please confirm? Best wishes, regards,
Jos� ----- Original Message ----- From: "tracy latimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A Blast From Heaven? > 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 > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Shop online for kids' toys by age group, price range, and toy category at > MSN Shopping. No waiting for a clerk to help you! http://shopping.msn.com > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
