A couple of them are clearly individual geologic structures (folds). Others are things I can't easily figure out from Google Earth.

I'm sure it does, I'm basing this off of one of the recent-ish Coptic Pope's statements and mostly thought it was kind of funny.

...faster than the weathering front advances.

This is why geologists *love* road cuts, but a stream that's actively incising into bedrock would also work, or something like a cliff face that's been scoured by a glacier. Places where rockfalls happen, basically.

Kind of rock matters less than topography and erosion rates.

The weathering front mimics and exaggerates topography, more or less, and mantles fresh rock with a layer of saprolite.

If you're trying to get a fresh exposure of something, you want a hilltop/slope where erosion is happening...

Grain boundaries also get involved, which matters for weathering, but I don't think that matters on human timescales for flow?

More fundamentally, no map or line will ever be able to delineate ‘safe’ from ‘dangerous’ - risk is a continuum and we need to move to system that recognizes this instead.

The defense that this was just an adjustment based on better data is self-serving BS.

We do *not* know what the 100-yr flood level is - even if we had perfect DEMs.

Even if we had perfect historical data, non-stationarity means we don’t know what the level is *now*, let alone in the future.

First, that the camp owners successfully petitioned to move the flood map line away from the most at risk cabins is unconscionable:

I really didn't think this story could get any worse, and then it turns out the flood was well on its way, and the ADULTS told kids to... go back to bed?!? And pray about it?!? They killed those kids.

Weathering isn't quite the same thing as aquifers/groundwater.

Weathering fronts extend well into the surface of most rock. Would need to know more about where you're collecting to say more.

(And apparently they very much do.)

I believe that's the official position of the Coptic Church on their dialogue with the Catholic Church going by Pope Shenouda III's statements--they're trying to correct those unrepentant Nestorians....

Nestorians: Assyrian Church of the East--and if you go by the Miaphysites, all of the Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox churches.
Monophysites, prefer to self-describe as Miaphysites today: too numerous to list, biggest being the Ethiopian Orthodox and Coptic Churches.

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