Looking at your models, I'm wondering if by drilling down through the "toe" regions you could get to the buried pre-slide surface, and find anything that would be useful in learning more about the slide, such as when it happened and whether it all happened at once along the whole mountain or was a thing that happened gradually in different places. (How much do we know about that? Do we know if it was a sudden slide that happened in minutes, or a more gradual slumping over years or longer?)
Ah yes...no shortage of big failures in that neck of the woods! I think people take field trips there to see them! The little knob hills in South Richland (Badger Mountain) are about the cooling structural geology stuff you'll ever find. They probly need their own video!
What is the approximate GPS location of this? If you'll share. I'll be in the area in a few months and would like to check it, and any surrounding features that are notable, out.
37.396087N 80.212894W is the intersection of Hall Road and Craig Creek Road. From here and anywhere along Craig Creek Rd to the northeast towards US 311, you can see the foothills below the main ridge that are the slide toe whenever there is a sufficient gap in trees along the road and beyond. Driving up Hall Road towards the top of Sinking Creek Mountain will take you across the slide and give a good view of the toe foothills on the way up. The road cut actually exposes flat-lying sandstones beds that are the backlimb of the toe fold. The Craig Creek Road Appalachian Trail crossing is somewhere around 37.379300N 80.250141W. It's a decent -sized dirt parking area under the trees. Take the trail southbound (which is actually north or northwest on the compass at this point) up Sinking Creek Mountain towards Niday Shelter. Just uphill of the shelter you will hike over the slide toe, across the slide mass, and eventually end up on the ridge where there are large Tuscarora Sandstone outcrops laid bare by the slide.
You should revisit this in long monologue format like your current videos!
Yup! I too would be delighted to see that.
Looking at your models, I'm wondering if by drilling down through the "toe" regions you could get to the buried pre-slide surface, and find anything that would be useful in learning more about the slide, such as when it happened and whether it all happened at once along the whole mountain or was a thing that happened gradually in different places. (How much do we know about that? Do we know if it was a sudden slide that happened in minutes, or a more gradual slumping over years or longer?)
Very cool! Very informative! I love these things!
46°12'50.5"N 119°42'17.6"W
If you want to see a similar landslide without all the vegetation blocking it. Tons of these around the area here.
Ah yes...no shortage of big failures in that neck of the woods! I think people take field trips there to see them! The little knob hills in South Richland (Badger Mountain) are about the cooling structural geology stuff you'll ever find. They probly need their own video!
What is the approximate GPS location of this? If you'll share.
I'll be in the area in a few months and would like to check it, and any surrounding features that are notable, out.
37.396087N 80.212894W is the intersection of Hall Road and Craig Creek Road. From here and anywhere along Craig Creek Rd to the northeast towards US 311, you can see the foothills below the main ridge that are the slide toe whenever there is a sufficient gap in trees along the road and beyond. Driving up Hall Road towards the top of Sinking Creek Mountain will take you across the slide and give a good view of the toe foothills on the way up. The road cut actually exposes flat-lying sandstones beds that are the backlimb of the toe fold. The Craig Creek Road Appalachian Trail crossing is somewhere around 37.379300N 80.250141W. It's a decent -sized dirt parking area under the trees. Take the trail southbound (which is actually north or northwest on the compass at this point) up Sinking Creek Mountain towards Niday Shelter. Just uphill of the shelter you will hike over the slide toe, across the slide mass, and eventually end up on the ridge where there are large Tuscarora Sandstone outcrops laid bare by the slide.