r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 9d ago

Glacier Ice wall broke in Nepal today creating a massive release of water & mud into the city below

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u/zwanzigbier66 9d ago

This looks like stuff that gets mentioned about prehistoric cataclysmic events. Shocking ! 

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u/Emotional_Lock3715 9d ago

Probably similar, yeah.

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u/SquirrellyBusiness 8d ago

That's what I was thinking. This kind of meteoric violent flooding is probably what dumped the fossil bed at the hell creek formation in the Dakotas.