We live in a geologically interesting area - Whangarei Heads. The rocky pinnacles of Bream Head, Mt Manaia and Mt Aubrey are the eroded remnants of Whangarei Heads Stratovolcano that was one of the larger volcanoes in the Northland Volcanic Arc which erupted between 20 and 15 million years ago.
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A line-up of volcanoes: Mt Aubrey, Mt Manaia, Mt Lion and Bream Head . |
Our house is nearby Mount Manaia and below Mount Aubrey.
When we moved here 12 years ago I looked at the boulders atop Aubrey and wondered if they ever fall down. The beach and area below the mountain is littered with massive boulders and volcanic bombs but all look as if they had been there for thousands or millions of years. And then this happened:
Two years later we were to find out. A massive boulder, like the ones on the ridge above our house, on the other side of Mount Aubrey, rolled off and fortunately slid down instead of rolling down and ended up above some houses.
I'd kind of forgotten about this but was reminded of it when seeing this news clip from India today:
Nine tourists were killed in Himachal Pradesh in northern India when their van was hit by falling boulders. The mountain that the boulders fell from looks disturbingly like Mount Aubrey.
7 comments:
Let's hope that god has never been ten pin bowling.
Or it could be revenge of the lost golf balls.
Nay, but seriously folks, I'm sure you'll be okay - they've been up there for years.
"they've been up there for years."
I guess you didn't go to the link and read where one fell down in 2011.
Sorry, I was on a boat using my phone. I couldn't even see the pictures properly.
Yeah, that's what Captain D. I. Jamison and Captain Francesco Schettino probably said.
Who are they?
We didn't study those guys in 3G.
This is where Google comes in handy.
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