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To: Dead Corpse

There’s a local beach where you can see bluffs of strata heaved up at about 45 degrees. That occurred about 14 million years ago, I believe. Atop them are a number of feet of sandstone...former ocean bottom, a hundred feet above current sea level. In the intertidal zone are some large cedar stumps, from trees that lived a few hundred years ago, that were dropped below current sea level in a big earthquake in 1700. Cascadia Subduction Zone. Hell of a ride.


26 posted on 11/19/2024 11:13:03 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

Weeeee!!! Plate tectonics and interglacial events FTW!


35 posted on 11/19/2024 11:26:37 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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