Re: Tectonic News

[don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>]

Or, it may not have failed. Yet. :)

Don

--- Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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> Danvarner@aol.com wrote:
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>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ethiopia_new_ocean;_ylt=AneUAYww7Apyj_7TJnHNGSas0NU
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