>Thus one narrative tells of the Thunderbird pitted against its prey, the whale which kept trying to elude capture, and this escalated to such turmoil that it uprooted trees, and no tree ever grew back again in the area
At least to me that last entry points even more towards an earthquake origin of the story.
Both subsidence and raising of elevations can happen during earthquakes. We commonly see these in coral deaths as the article above, or in tree deaths when land subsides under water.
At least to me that last entry points even more towards an earthquake origin of the story.
http://www.tectonics.caltech.edu/outreach/highlights/sumatra...
Both subsidence and raising of elevations can happen during earthquakes. We commonly see these in coral deaths as the article above, or in tree deaths when land subsides under water.