Sirens Of Titan Is My Favorite Kurt Vonnegut Sinply For The Beauty Of The Harmoniums. I Think A Kite

To elaborate on the "pretty sure" part:

The Lituya Bay 1958 wave measurement is a little wacky because the 1750 foot height is the height of the trimline where trees were removed opposite the landslide. That's a measure of runup, where water gets pushed higher up the slope by momentum than the actual wave crest, which was probably more like 490 feet tall (still bonkers)!

So it's possible the Greenland wave is actually taller if they're measuring the wave height, but I'm guessing the quoted number is probably also a runup measurement based on trimlines or other evidence which likely puts the Greenland wave in second place. But also it's kind of a nitpick because like, it doesn't matter if the wave in open water is lower if you'd still have to vertically evacuate almost 1/3rd of a mile to get out of the way!

Washington post article link

A landslide in Greenland created a 650 foot megatsunami and the wave made a seiche in the fjord that lasted for 9 days! The seiche created a mystery seismic signal detected worldwide.

I'm pretty sure that's the second largest wave recorded in history behind Lituya Bay (depending on how you measure stuff). That's taller than the space needle!

It seems like the slide may have been destabilized by glacier melt due to accelerating warming in Greenland.

hopefully they never take away the way you can drag the little post icons around the screen on the android app

Imagine being the only person alive who can say this

Babysitting these children for my friend

This stuff always fucked me up when I was doing my Geology degree. Like, you'd be out there at field camper or whatever and you'd see a bunch of rocks and whatever, like they're cool rocks and there's a lot to learn about them but they're rocks very detached from any kind of normal experience.

But then once in a while you'd come across something that looks like it was buried yesterday and suddenly you're transported a billion years ago to a calm stream creating ripples in the soft mud of its bed. Or a reef from the Jurassic with hundreds of shelled animals just chilling. Or the cobbles on the side of a river that was flowing 10 thousand years ago. And there were animals and plants and bacteria just chilling there, doing their thing, just like you're doing today in the same spot (which may have been on the other side of the planet to the degree locations have any meaning in geologic time).

It's amazing we have any record of these periods of time, let alone enough to actually have a pretty good idea about what they were like! So cool

ftr I am forever going to be bitter that the post I wanted to be "let's talk about extinct ecosystems and how cool they are!" got derailed into yet another post just talking about a single taxon like the millions of other posts on palaeoblr

#sunrise #peeking #maine #atlantic