A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow
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#4Before anyone gets excited, the landslide occurred in the 12th century or so :(
I was all excited to plan a rock hounding trip to the Himalayas. I even sent out the Sherpa bat signal (it’s a silhouette of me shaving a Himalayan yak), only to find out I’m eight hundred years too late.
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#5Before anyone gets excited, the landslide occurred in the 12th century or so :( I was all excited to plan a rock hounding trip to the Himalayas. I even sent out the Sherpa bat signal (it’s a silhouette of me shaving a Himalayan yak), only to find out I’m eight hundred years too late.
Given it happened well within recorded history I was excited to see if there were any contemporary accounts of the event, but disappointingly the article doesn't cite any, nor does it indicate whether there has been research on that facet. However remote in the Himalayas it may have been, surely such a cataclysmic landslide must have been felt and heard a significant distance away.
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#6Article didn't mention it but lightning is a significant force in mountain erosion too.
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#7Before anyone gets excited, the landslide occurred in the 12th century or so :( I was all excited to plan a rock hounding trip to the Himalayas. I even sent out the Sherpa bat signal (it’s a silhouette of me shaving a Himalayan yak), only to find out I’m eight hundred years too late.
Smaller mountain landslides do occur in modern times. There was one here in Montana in 1959 that killed 27 people and blocked a major river. The effects are still visible today.
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#8> As the rubble crashed down, the energy released would have been equivalent to around six times that of the Tsar Bomba
Interesting, wonder if this Approx 1190 event had a global impact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
Seems that ended in 1250, coincidence ??
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#9Article didn't mention it but lightning is a significant force in mountain erosion too.
I don't think I have ever heard of this, have any more details?
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#10An ancestral mount Shasta in California collapsed sending a debris flow 28 miles covering something like 675sq km