the Anchorage

the Anchorage

Fata Morgana

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Freya Rohn
May 16, 2024
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It’s easy to forget you live near a coastline in Anchorage. Inland channels fill to shallow depths by centuries-ground glacial silt, so fine it’s called glacial flour. Made from slow deep time, tops of mountains drained into the sea over eons.

As a result, these inlets experience extreme tides, the push and pull of the Moon magnified by a narrow channel…

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