Article 1WHJB Ten Minutes in Lituya Bay

Ten Minutes in Lituya Bay

by
Alan Bellows
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Ten Minutes in Lituya Bay:

In 1952, geologist Don Miller was conducting a petroleum investigation in the region surrounding the Gulf of Alaska when he encountered a vaguely disquieting geological anomaly. While surveying a remote fjord known as Lituya Bay, Miller found that the dense, mature forest that surrounded the bay ended abruptly hundreds of feet upslope of the water. ["]

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