The Montana traveler: Madison River Canyon earthquake area
According to plate tectonic theory, the earth's crust is broken into several large pieces, plates that "float" on the earth's molten core. [...]faulting has produced the short north-south mountain ranges separated by wide valleys that are characteristic of the western United Stat...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Montana : the magazine of western history 2003-04, Vol.53 (1), p.65 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | According to plate tectonic theory, the earth's crust is broken into several large pieces, plates that "float" on the earth's molten core. [...]faulting has produced the short north-south mountain ranges separated by wide valleys that are characteristic of the western United States north of the Great Basin. [...]three great blocks of earth and rock dropped; two of these tipped, causing Hebgen Lake to roll nineteen feet to the north. |
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| ISSN: | 0026-9891 2328-4293 |