The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 209, Issues 4-6National Geographic Society., 2006 - Geography |
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... fault . It hasn't spawned a major earthquake since 1868 . Sometime soon , it could go . Then the fault runs underneath the stadium . One map shows it splitting the goal posts in the north end zone . It races downfield , barrels through ...
... fault . It hasn't spawned a major earthquake since 1868 . Sometime soon , it could go . Then the fault runs underneath the stadium . One map shows it splitting the goal posts in the north end zone . It races downfield , barrels through ...
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... fault , and came up with the key concept of " elastic rebound . " The surface of the Earth isn't perfectly stiff . It bends . Land at some distance from a locked fault will slowly stretch in oppo- site directions , but the fault itself ...
... fault , and came up with the key concept of " elastic rebound . " The surface of the Earth isn't perfectly stiff . It bends . Land at some distance from a locked fault will slowly stretch in oppo- site directions , but the fault itself ...
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... fault trace , the University of Missouri geologist can discern a faint fracture , a line that slants across the trench wall from upper left to lower right . The line isn't perfectly straight ; it jogs and splays . Along with other clues ...
... fault trace , the University of Missouri geologist can discern a faint fracture , a line that slants across the trench wall from upper left to lower right . The line isn't perfectly straight ; it jogs and splays . Along with other clues ...
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Inside Chernobyl 32 Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded blanketing | 36 |
Glen Canyon Revealed 64 A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest | 72 |
COVER U S soldiers patrol devastated Market Street in San Francisco | 120 |
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