Geologist Simon Cox explains some of the processes and features of the landslide, including some mysterious 'dust bubbles' at the base of a mud waterfall.
This seems to make the whole process of old things getting buried under meters and meters of material, as time goes on. Never really made a lot of sense out of it, pretty much simply accepted it as fact. I also see this as part of the natural cycle of rocks getting pushed up, falling back down, eventually getting pummeled into sand, etc, some forming parts of soil, the rest getting recycled back into the Earth, only to get pushed back up through volcanic and tectonic activity.
Just more proof that air has mass.. Push it hard enough and it will push back. In 1965 we had a local mega slide. Half a mountain came down and went half way up the mountain on the opposite side of the valley. Unfortunately an earlier Snow slide had come down and blocked the highway stopping traffic. The lucky ones turned around and went back to the nearest stops. Those who stayed probably never heard (it was dark out) the 47 million cubic meters of rock and mud that roared down at an estimated 100+ miles per hour riding a cushion of compressed air. Just like a hover craft. I remember as a small child, driving through the area only weeks after a temporary road had been run through. crawling around rocks the size of houses. knowing only 2 bodies were ever recovered the rest where left buried where ever they were. Before you call bullshit, check out "Hope or Hope/Princeton slide" and see/hear for yourself.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Aigd-_En5z0.html This Week in History Season 2 Episode 18 - The Hope Slide Royal BC Museum ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gRRNS3xE12U.html 1903: 90 seconds of terror in the Frank rockslide (CBC 2003)
1:02 dirt thats dry enough to have dust puffing out of it, flowing like mud or concrete. i dont know if its awesome or scary to see dirt act like that.
Cannot locate it in the short term, but have you noticed the difficultymof mixing chocolate powder with hot water? I get lots of these sorts of bubbles which seem very reluctant to mix .
Recently a tunnel from Queenstown to Milford Sound was not allowed because it would have deposited 1/2 million tonnes of rock into a river. But nature does that all the time
i think they might be trying to minimize the amount of debris going into the river. if too much debris clogs the river the valley might turn into a lake and towns will be under water.
It's amazing to see alluvial fans in the landscape and a whole neighborhood developments plopped down on it like it's solid ground....I guess if you're a gamblin' man it's a fair bet...
There can be no telling when thousands of tons of debris will just decide to let go and flow down the well-worn slide pathway. You saw it flowing like concrete. Nothing can stand in its way.
Didn't really see any landslide there.. cameraman little too late perhaps. I will get my camera and show volcano eruption that happen 46 years ago... :)
