Eli3 Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Balls: http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100809/bc_slide_flood_risk_100809/20100809?hub=BritishColumbiaHome 2nd largest landslide in Canadian history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonG Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 (edited) Mr Brayshaw said it well almost a year ago (http://www.clubtread.com/sforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=32743): "Capricorn is nasty because the glacier tongue up there is right at the volcanic/granite contact and there are piles of steep unconsolidated glacial sediment as well as massive bedrock instability. The average return period for surprisingly large debris flows is one to two events per decade. Devastator Creek might be more well-known but even Capricorn has the possibility to block Meager and send a floodwave down the Lillooet when the dam breaks... When I was working up there we would gun it to the fastest possible speed when driving across the Capricorn fan, even on rainless days." Hey Drew, do you have a lottery number for me to play? Edited August 10, 2010 by Heinrich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Yup, called it. See also here http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/972022/Massive_Landslide_off_the_Meag#Post972022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bstach Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 2nd largest landslide in Canadian history Which was the largest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 2nd largest landslide in Canadian history Which was the largest? The one that created Grand Coulee and the Scab lands. Then again that was before the French trappers and the Hudson Bay Company [img:center]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Channeled_Scablands_during_flood.jpg[/img] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
num1mc Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 The one that created Grand Coulee and the Scab lands That was a flood, the worlds largest. Not a land slide, earth flow, slip or debri torrent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murraysovereign Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 (edited) 2nd largest landslide in Canadian history Which was the largest? I would guess either the Hope Slide, or maybe the Frank Slide. Frank was certainly deadlier, but Hope might have been physically bigger. Smallest would probably be Al "Landslide" Passeral, who won his riding in northwest BC by a single vote. Legend has it the NDP opponent and his wife had not got around to voting, otherwise the result would have been an equally small landslide the other way. Edited August 11, 2010 by murraysovereign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Largest known in Canadian prehistory, and possibly in North America, was the one that made Valley of the Rocks near Assiniboine: c. 140 million cubic meters http://feww.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/valley-of-the-rocks-avalanche-deafening-thunder/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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