Re: Tectonic News

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

Folks, this article says a rift created in northern Ethiopia by a recent 
earthquake is the beginning of continental rifting.

I don't think so.  That would take more than a single minor fault!

And the Rift Valley is a failed continental rift.   It runs to that 
region.   Occasionally tectonic activity happens along those old failed 
rifts.  

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
villandra@austin.rr.com



Danvarner@aol.com wrote:

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