Geology Bites

Deep interviews with geologists on plate tectonics, volcanoes, lunar magnetism and other hard mechanisms; firsthand research detail.

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Geology Bites 0827

Thinned crust should sink, yet the American West stands a mile high

The evidence for plate stretching is usually buried under sediment. The Basin and Range Province in the United States is the rare exception: the crust has already been pulled to roughly twice its width and is still extending, and GPS, the paleoseismic record and detachment faults let us see it happening.

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