{"id":5046,"date":"2012-07-27T01:08:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T01:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5046"},"modified":"2012-07-27T01:08:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T01:08:40","slug":"the-amazing-vanishing-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/07\/27\/the-amazing-vanishing-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"The amazing vanishing garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/local\/Whidbey-Island-couple-losing-front-yard-piece-by-piece-163787086.html?tab=video&amp;c=y\">Komonews ran a slightly perplexing story yesterday<\/a> about a couple living in Whidbey Island, which lies a little to the north of Seattle in Washington State, USA.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/local\/Whidbey-Island-couple-losing-front-yard-piece-by-piece-163787086.html?tab=video&amp;c=y\">In the link<\/a> there is a video that shows the rather interesting retrogressve failure that is steadily eroding away their garden.\u00a0 With luck and a following wind you might be able to see it below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/local\/Whidbey-Island-couple-losing-front-yard-piece-by-piece-163787086.html?embed\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is not at all clear to me why this should be happening at this site at this time.\u00a0 The owners describe a geysir 25 feet (about 8 metres) high, which suggests very high pore pressures developed in the ground at this location.\u00a0 This presumably indicates a change in subterranean plumbing, but the cause is far from clear.\u00a0 The process now appears to be a set of retrogressive failures that are slowly but steadily devouring the garden.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nwgeology.wordpress.com\/the-fieldtrips\/whidbey-island-glacial-deposits\/\"> There is a good article on the geology of Whidbey Island here<\/a> &#8211; it is formed of glacial deposits that are likely to be highly erodible.\u00a0 Indeed, Whidbey Island has a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecy.wa.gov\/programs\/sea\/pugetsound\/bluffs\/possession.html\"> long history of landslide problems<\/a>, suggesting that one should not be too surprised that a failure can occur at this location.\u00a0 It is unlikely that the owners can do much except wait for the system to stabilise naturally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting retrogressive landslide causing coastal erosion on Whidbey Island, USA<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[134,959,963,48,410],"class_list":["post-5046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-coastal-erosion","tag-landslide-report","tag-landslide-video","tag-usa","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}