Field guide No. 771
Waterfall severed above a silent pool
Paused partway down.
A tall waterfall pours over a basalt cliff and stops dead in a straight line halfway down, leaving the pool below flat and still. Something switched it off.
Field noteWater that falls keeps falling. This stops in a ruled line in mid-air, and the pool goes without.
- Specimen
- No. 771
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A basalt gorge with a still pool.
- Nearest existing relative
- A waterfall.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
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