Piers Hemy - full marks! Go to the head of the geologic class. I
must go and find that OM3 dust it off and send it to you. (or do we
have enough new members to have another contest)
Gord
On 6-Jun-08, at 11:51 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
>
> Best I know, Jim, moraine is the debris left behind as a glacier
> melts. In
> the case of Moraine Lake, I would guess it's terminal moraine which
> lies at
> 90degrees to the direction of flow of the glacier, as opposed to
> lateral
> moraine which lies along the edges, parallel to the direction of
> flow. Thus
> neither quake- nor landslide-related, but it's easy to see how you
> might
> think so.
>
> --
> Piers
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Timpe, Jim
> Sent: 06 June 2008 18:28
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: China quake photos
>
>
> And isn't Moraine Lake in Alberta of similar origins? At least a
> large land
> slide, maybe or maybe not associated with an earthquake.
>
> Scott: Which lake N of Mt. Rainier? You know, there are still
> standing
> timbers/remnants of shoreline forests at the bottom at Lake Washington
> (South end at least) that are the result of the lahars/mud flow from
> it's
> last eruption.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> Of Scott Peden
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:22 AM
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> Subject: [OM] Re: China quake photos
>
>
> Yes, all the schools that collapsed, why?
>
> As many had stated, they are allowed only one child and many are too
> old
>
> to have another one now, which has to be doubly painful.
>
> There are quake lakes in the Pacific Rim of Fire, but the ones I
> have been
> shown are really old, newest ones are like several hundred years
> old, though
> some were caused by volcanic eruptions and the debris gouging out a
> lake. I
> grew up next to one of those, 30 miles north of Mt
>
> Rainer from it's 1820/54? Eruption.
>
> Chris Barker wrote:
>> It is interesting, and I have never heard of the phenomenon before.
>> Thanks, Chuck,
>>
>> But oh to take away some of their pain -- those poor parents who lost
>> children in all the schools that collapsed.
>>
>> All that sorrow ...
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 6 Jun 2008, at 12:12, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I just stumbled across these this morning. They give a better
>>> appreciation for what's happening than anything else I've seen so
>>> far. The third shot, especially, shows how the "quake lake" is
>>> formed... something I've not previously seen.
>>> <http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/05/after_the_quake.html>
>>>
>>
>>
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