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c/geology-rocksivan211ivan2112mo agoProlific Poster

Question about the rock face at Miller's Bluff

I hike past Miller's Bluff every month, and over the last six months, a huge slab of that sandstone cliff has just... crumbled. It went from a solid, smooth wall to a pile of broken rock at the base. I'm pretty sure it's from all the freeze-thaw cycles we had this past winter (water gets in the cracks, freezes, and pops the rock apart). Has anyone else seen a spot change that fast? It's kind of a bummer.
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wright.cole
Oh man, that's wild! My buddy saw the same thing happen at a climbing spot up north last spring. One weekend it was fine, the next it was just a heap of rubble.
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johnfoster
johnfoster2mo ago
Yeah, freeze-thaw will do that fast.
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betty_scott18
Freeze-thaw" seems too quick in my experience.
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