Marso 15, 2012

Chalkfall.

Massive collapse at the White Cliffs of Dover.

30 komento:

john ayon kay ...

Great sense of humor in the comments, esp. "One small landfall will not change anything about England. Just a bit more beach to fight them on...

Revenant ayon kay ...

I blame global warming.

edutcher ayon kay ...

Love the headline:

Now France is even further away

Just what many Englishmen have wanted for centuries.

WV (no kidding) "onCons" Battle cry that strikes fear into what PB&J uses for a heart.

Tim ayon kay ...

Revenant said...

"I blame global warming."

Why not?

Al Gore surely will...

David Blaska ayon kay ...

No blood for chalk.

Crimso ayon kay ...

"Now France is even further away"

Still smarting from 1066.

Michael ayon kay ...

Will the landowner get his property taxes cut? This is the UK so the answer is no. In fact rhey might well sue him to put the cliff back where it was.

MadisonMan ayon kay ...

First the Old Man of the Mountain, and now this.

Curious George ayon kay ...

France actually got closer.

Synova ayon kay ...

Wow.

"I blame global warming."

;-)

I blame gravity.

Rusty ayon kay ...

I found the photograph of the Supermarine Spitfire much more interesting.

Indigo Red ayon kay ...

This is how continents get smaller without rising seas.

traditionalguy ayon kay ...

The culprit is the two very real winters of record freezing weather from global cooling in Europe.

Water seeping into cracks freezes, expands and spalls off the rock.

chickelit ayon kay ...

I applaud this. It freshed up up the look. The older facade was looking grungy.

kcom ayon kay ...

It might be "massive" but if you look at the pictures it's about 0.0000001% of the volume of just that section of the cliffs. I don't think they'll be disappearing any time soon.

Curious George ayon kay ...

Hey finally a post were the "Collapse comments" link makes sense...

Methadras ayon kay ...

I blame mass sheer forces and possibly plate tectonics, but then again, I live in the real world.

SteveR ayon kay ...

The Law of Uniformitarianism is a real bitch

Christy ayon kay ...

Sentimentalist I am. Sorry to see a millions-upon-millions of year old graveyard for small sea creatures fall to ruin.

Synova ayon kay ...

I thought that uniformitarianism was (not a law) the assumption that a process observed now is the same as the process that can not be observed that left the same sort of remnant... petrified ancient wave ripples are wave ripples, etc.

But I could well be wrong.

In any case, the cliff face reached the place where it had the lowest potential energy.

SteveR ayon kay ...

Synova, you are correct about the definition and it was called a Law back when I had to learn it. In any case it plays hell for Algore who wants everything to reflect of man's influence.

Bart Hall (Kansas, USA) ayon kay ...

If you look, you'll see there's another collapse -- equally large -- beginning just to the east of the one featured.

Freeman Hunt ayon kay ...

Comment at the link:

Do you suppose we might have a few more pictures of this chalkfall from a few different vantage points? I'm not sure I've quite got the full impact yet.

Heh.

FleetUSA ayon kay ...

The Daily Mail is always on the spot with great photographs. I guess they are becoming the "Life" magazine of the web.

rcommal ayon kay ...

As long as there are still bluebirds... .

Mary Beth ayon kay ...

As long as there are still bluebirds... .

I looked at all of the photos and couldn't find any bluebirds. I was disappointed.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

There'll always be an England. No one said anything about how much of it there'd be.

kcom ayon kay ...

"I looked at all of the photos and couldn't find any bluebirds. I was disappointed."

Can Chip be far behind with a challenge like that...

Wally Kalbacken ayon kay ...

That's a shitload of chalk right there.

AlanKH ayon kay ...

It's Bush's fault.

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