Recoding The End Of A Geological Epoch

"Gibraltar Falls."

The Mediterranean basin has been a desert for a million and a half years;

but the Gates of Hercules have opened;

Atlantic currents, sucked toward the gap between Europe and Africa, clash and recoil;

their chaotic white and green violence crumbles cliffs, overwhelms valleys, flows off rock, gouges mud and covers miles of shore with spume;

an eight-mile wall of water bellows between continents;

rising spray covers the torrent which makes clouds with wheeling rainbows;

it is unsafe for aerial observers to breathe the thick, cold, salt fog for many minutes;

Feliz flies above, making a full-sensory recording of the entire century-long inflow for other Patrol members to experience.