It's raining in Los Angeles.

I don't care. There's lots of nonsense on the internet. That whole region has been studied for well over a century. Hell I did field work there in the 1960's.

But the fact remains, the course of the Colorado River is well established, going all the way back to over 6 million years ago.
I don't care either.

So where did all the sediment that lies under a lot of the left coast come from.
 
I don't care either.

So where did all the sediment that lies under a lot of the left coast come from.

I don't care either.

So where did all the sediment that lies under a lot of the left coast come from.
There used to be a whole bunch of rivers in northern California. Over the decades the majority got damned up. There are three major submarine canyons that transport the beach sand off the continental shelf and down to the abyssal plain, one is the Monterey Canyon, by, you guessed it, Monterey, the other big one is the La Jolla canyon by San Diego.
These too are very well documented, and studied.
 
You sure about that? Slip into the sea happens at the shore.....where are these cliffs?

California has a history of landslides triggered by rain, including landslides in La Conchita, Montecito, and Bluebird Canyon.


Landslides triggered by rain
  • La Conchita, 2005
    A landslide triggered by two weeks of heavy rain killed 10 people and destroyed 13 homes.

  • Bluebird Canyon, 2005
    A landslide triggered by heavy rain from the previous winter destroyed 17 homes and damaged 11 others.


  • Montecito, 2018
    Mudslides triggered by a winter storm following the Thomas Fire killed 23 people.
  • Rancho Palos Verdes
    A decades-old complex of slow-moving landslides suddenly moved, putting multimillion-dollar homes at risk.



Damn....................you are so astute. Tell me where did all the dirt in the Grand Canyon go? Was it an ancient strip mine or what? It obviously ended up somewhere.....just happens most of the left coast area sits on silt......
I was just looking for a source for this fantasy of yours. The mountains and hills of California are definitely not silt. The Colorado River flows way eastward of the mountains southward into Mexico.

Parts of San Francisco was built on reclaimed land in the bay. That is why they have so much more damage than earthquakes occurring further away from the bay. The ground turns to liquid in an earthquake. I just watched a documentary on the San Francisco earthquake and fire on PBS a few nights back. Did you know that during the earthquake that the land shifted 32 feet northward on the seaward side of the San Andreas fault? In the future what is now downtown Los Angeles will actually be just west of what is now downtown San Francisco.
 
I was just looking for a source for this fantasy of yours. The mountains and hills of California are definitely not silt. The Colorado River flows way eastward of the mountains southward into Mexico.

Parts of San Francisco was built on reclaimed land in the bay. That is why they have so much more damage than earthquakes occurring further away from the bay. The ground turns to liquid in an earthquake. I just watched a documentary on the San Francisco earthquake and fire on PBS a few nights back. Did you know that during the earthquake that the land shifted 32 feet northward on the seaward side of the San Andreas fault? In the future what is now downtown Los Angeles will actually be just west of what is now downtown San Francisco.
Eventually, if the fault lines remain as they are, Los Angeles will be accreted onto the south coast of Alaska.

Figure, 3 to 5 million years from now.
 
I agree. I just used the example from the documentary I watched about slippage along the fault.
We were able to figure out the rate of movement by using the evidence exposed by the Pallette Creek trench. We cut through the fault scarp there and figured out the periodicity of the southern section of the San Andreas from that.
 
Wonderful......documented is still scientific conjecture.

I've see different conjecture.
 
It's like that bunch of rank nut-job Trump was talking too.....They went away feeling that they are doing everything 100% correctly.

It's good Trump brought them to task for the country to see just how retarded they are when they reacted.....It will pay dividends when Trump attaches steel cables instead of strings on any monies sent there.
Yes, Trump is so magnanimous-NOT.
 
Wonderful......documented is still scientific conjecture.

I've see different conjecture.
No, it isn't. Documented proof is documented proof. If I tell you that I can trace sediment that originated from Grand Junction Colorado, all the way down to the Gulf of Baja, that isn't conjecture. That is documented proof. And that has been done many times.

Do yourself a favor and simply look at a topographic map, and then describe a route that takes the Colorado to the pacific.

Good luck, you have several mountain ranges in the way.
 
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You sure about that? Slip into the sea happens at the shore.....where are these cliffs?

California has a history of landslides triggered by rain, including landslides in La Conchita, Montecito, and Bluebird Canyon.


Landslides triggered by rain
  • La Conchita, 2005
    A landslide triggered by two weeks of heavy rain killed 10 people and destroyed 13 homes.

  • Bluebird Canyon, 2005
    A landslide triggered by heavy rain from the previous winter destroyed 17 homes and damaged 11 others.


  • Montecito, 2018
    Mudslides triggered by a winter storm following the Thomas Fire killed 23 people.
  • Rancho Palos Verdes
    A decades-old complex of slow-moving landslides suddenly moved, putting multimillion-dollar homes at risk.



Damn....................you are so astute. Tell me where did all the dirt in the Grand Canyon go? Was it an ancient strip mine or what? It obviously ended up somewhere.....just happens most of the left coast area sits on silt......
hey dell if you live on a cliff or below a cliff in s.california and there is a quake or a heavy rain, your house might be in danger...i dont see how you think this is something new....in all the years i lived there this happens once in a while...
 
hey dell if you live on a cliff or below a cliff in s.california and there is a quake or a heavy rain, your house might be in danger...i dont see how you think this is something new....in all the years i lived there this happens once in a while...
When it rains it pours.
 
yea but the state isnt going to go into the ocean like you seem to think it might...
Wasn't my claim........
.i dont see how you think this is something new....in all the years i lived there this happens once in a while..
Seems like it's a yearly thing, in your state.

Majority of the landslides happen with heavy prolonged rain.

Couple that with vegetation burnt off and there you go.
 

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