Rock fall

  

We've been busy with field surveys recently, but I wanted to share one photo illustrating the impacts of the intense storms in January this year.  We're currently visiting sites that we survey once per year, so we're just now gaining additional insight into the impacts from the winter storms.

This is one example of wave impacts to a rock wall causing it to fracture resulting in giant sharp-edged rocks filling a surge channel.  The clean gray angular rocks towards the middle of the photo are newly fallen off the wall to the left side of the channel.  (We estimate those rocks are ~5 feet tall.) 

Another reminder to be careful near bluff edges and coastal outcrops!