[meteorite-list] A Blast From Heaven?
From: GeoZay_at_aol.com <GeoZay_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:40 2004 Message-ID: <44.38f3e062.2d049db5_at_aol.com> -------------------------------1070810037 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 12/4/2003 8:57:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov 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 -------------------------------1070810037 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><HEAD> <META charset=3DUTF-8 http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charse= t=3Dutf-8"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>In a message dated 12/4/2003 8:57:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, baalke_at_z= agami.jpl.nasa.gov writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue=20= 2px solid"><FONT face=3DArial>>>At one place, Jervis <BR>Bay, waves ap= parently surmounted a headland 420 feet high. "Only a <BR>bolide could do th= is," says Bryant, using a technical term for a <BR>sky-bursting cosmic missi= le.<<</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>Well...I've read sometime in the past that land slumping off various is= lands 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 ap= parently 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.</DIV> <DIV>George Zay</DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> -------------------------------1070810037-- Received on Sun 07 Dec 2003 10:13:57 AM PST |
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