[meteorite-list] Signal Mountain (IVA), Baja California

[Robert Verish]

Graham,
Here s a link to a Youtube video showing what I described:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeB-e3yBIho&feature=related 
Regards, Bob V.

---- ensoramanda at ntlworld.com  wrote: 

Looks like similar rockfalls and dust clouds on Mars too..!

amazing shot...

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_016423_2640


---- Robert Verish  wrote: 
 On Easter Sunday afternoon Moni Waiblinger and myself were hiking in the Yuha Desert near Ocotillo (just north of the US-Mexican Border) when the M~7.1 earthquake struck south of Mexicali.  You couldn t be any closer to the epicenter and still be in the US.  Needless to say, this was the strongest earthquake that I ve experienced.
 
 But what I saw AFTER the quake was equally amazing.  Clouds of dust were rising up from most of the canyons in the nearby mountains, the result of rock-falls and possible landslides.  The mountain to the south of us in Baja (which I call Signal Mountain ) was covered in a cloud of dust.  Images of this phenomenon were shown on the local San Diego TV News stations (still looking for a link of this image - my images were too obscured by dust).
 
 I m wondering where the Signal Mountain iron meteorite was actually found, and whether these recent rock falls might possibly unearth additional masses of this iron?  -- Bob V.
 
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