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You'll have to go to the actual page (link below) if you want to click on the small image to see the big image (7 MB). I wasn't going to blow up my browser to do that!

Topography of the Kunlun Fault

New lava flow images at the USGS Kilauea Eruption Update page.

When the heck is Mauna Loa going to erupt again?

1 posted on 07/15/2002 8:13:58 AM PDT by cogitator
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To: kayak; Miss Marple; CPT Clay; capitan_refugio; SuziQ; GingisK; Lazarus Long; d4now; Cuttnhorse; ...
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2 posted on 07/15/2002 8:15:30 AM PDT by cogitator
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To: cogitator
In the future, please be certain to include me in your pings for this.

Thx, 'Pod

3 posted on 07/15/2002 8:32:35 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: cogitator
Does anybody know if the Kunlun fault system is part of the Indian micro-plate and Eurasian collision boundary? If I remember my structural geology (too many years ago) of the area, this was a continental-continental land mass collision. Some of the results was the exceptionally high Himalayan Mountain chain and the high elevation of the Tibetan Plateau. This was due to the isostatic "bouyancy" of the subducting continental crust (as compared to subducting, dense, oceanic crust).

Anyway, the 8.1 magnitude quake is very consistant with estimates for potential on segments of the San Andreas Fault, and with similar major strike-slip transform boundaries.

4 posted on 07/15/2002 12:44:40 PM PDT by capitan_refugio
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