tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post2072000435679381062..comments2023-09-07T18:57:41.344+01:00Comments on Early Modern Whale: At the site of 'The Miracle'DrRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351695058512676554noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-5907162916220388102015-09-23T21:06:22.193+01:002015-09-23T21:06:22.193+01:00Perhaps DrRoy you're not on the edge of your s...Perhaps DrRoy you're not on the edge of your seat waiting for follow-ups, but I walked around the Wonder today. I thought the little gorge was modern - judging from the fence posts overhanging the edge. It must have been much narrower quite recently. I thought maybe a source of handy building material?<br /><br />The whole Wonder must have been a general slump of the hillside. There's a lane just below with a suspicious dent in it, and the long ridge line above has a gap in it at this point. Unfortunately, no one around to ask.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08667199377870140732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-12518053431924745162010-09-30T23:15:02.432+01:002010-09-30T23:15:02.432+01:00A further reference to this landslip can be found ...A further reference to this landslip can be found in Fuller's Worthies, in the section on Wonders in the entry for Herefordshire.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11407225486965487981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-67085562025197416092010-09-30T23:13:27.167+01:002010-09-30T23:13:27.167+01:00Another reference to the landslip can be found in ...Another reference to the landslip can be found in the entry in Fuller's Worthies under the heading Wonders in the entry for Herefordshire.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11407225486965487981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-11671431851854013502010-06-23T10:02:22.507+01:002010-06-23T10:02:22.507+01:00Why, thank you: that link leading to the Baring-Go...Why, thank you: that link leading to the Baring-Gould novel was very well worth following. I have been a poor attender at my local geological society in the last year or so, but do have a project going to speak to them myself one day about geology as it appears in literature: I will certainly check out some S B-G. I had vaguely heard of him, but never of Desmond Bagley. So, thanks for that too.DrRoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01351695058512676554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-41363949603829691352010-06-22T15:58:26.073+01:002010-06-22T15:58:26.073+01:00Very interesting. Somehow I managed to miss your g...Very interesting. Somehow I managed to miss your geology & literature series until now. You might be interested in this post - <a href="http://segalbooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/seaton-and-sabine-baring-gould.html" rel="nofollow">Seaton, slips and Sabine Baring-Gould</a> - which focuses on the appearance of the 1839 Bindon Landslip in Baring-Gould's 1900 novel <i>Winefred, a story of the chalk cliffs</i>. There must be quite a long list, going up to modern times with Desmond Bagley's <i>Landslide</i>, where the climactic event is a landslide caused by liquefaction of a bed of thixotropic 'quick clay'.Ray Girvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.com