Gibraltar Falls: Statistics

"Gibraltar Falls"

The Mediterranean floor is 10,000 feet below the level of the Atlantic;

the inflow is 10,000 cubic miles per year;

this equals 100 Victoria Falls or 1000 Niagra Falls;

the strait is 50 miles wide;

beyond the strait, the channel widens and islands appear although most of them will be eroded;

changed weather will destroy much local life as the Pliocene replaces the Miocene;

the headland that will be Gibraltar is visible;

there is a 20-mile-wide, one-mile-high cataract;

Feliz flies down the cataract and falls into it.