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Sigmetnow

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Melting permafrost flowing like lava in Tibet
« on: September 10, 2017, 02:46:18 PM »
This video is circulating on Wechat & Weibo, melting permafrost, flowing like lava in #Tibet.
https://twitter.com/Lhatseri/status/906175294649753600

I have no other details on this....  :o
« Last Edit: September 10, 2017, 02:55:37 PM by Sigmetnow »
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Re: Melting permafrost flowing like lava in Tibet
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2017, 03:29:50 PM »
There is a link to a paper dated Sept 8.  Can anyone translate?

@Lhatseri no, it happened Sep 7, news: http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1788404
https://twitter.com/shawnwzhang/status/906206651912294400
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Re: Melting permafrost flowing like lava in Tibet
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2017, 05:00:32 PM »
I'll try to get a translation tonight.
That is a spectacular permafrost slide. WOW


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Re: Melting permafrost flowing like lava in Tibet
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2017, 05:45:40 PM »
Using google translate, I got this:

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Yushu a pasture mountain collapsed, turf flow like a river

September 7, Qinghai Yushu. Said the more than a county ranch occurred in the mountain collapse, debris flow wrapped in the destruction of turf on the grasslands of the flow. The disaster caused part of the family economic losses, a car was slightly damaged, the ranch is being relocated.
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Re: Melting permafrost flowing like lava in Tibet
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2017, 07:55:50 PM »
See Dr. Dave Petley's Landslide blog: 
11 September 2017
 A dramatic earthflow video from Dimye village in Tibet

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Whilst the posting links this event to permafrost degradation, this is not clear to me.   
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It is not possible to say whether this is indeed a peat landslide, or something similar in an organic soil, or a permafrost slide.  Unfortunately, I doubt that more information will become available in the near future.  But it is a great video.

Petley's next article includes this quote from a published paper about certain Alaskan landslides near Glacier Bay:
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We hypothesize that degradation of rock permafrost is the primary factor that controlled the timing and size of rock avalanches in the Glacier Bay region.
So: melting permafrost flowing like lava over a cliff.   :D
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