CUT TO THE CHASE
With Marshall Masters
The Hammer of Thor: Part 2
YOWUSA.COM, 08-August-2004
(Read Part 1 for Free)
YOWUSA.COM, 08-August-22
Dale Caruso
The
New Madrid Fault Line is not a true fault line as we see out on the west coast.
Instead, it reveals itself in the remains of a rift valley, in the plate basement
rock, now covered by younger sediments. “Volcanic activity weakens
the plates and forms rifts in the plates. The New Madrid Rift, also
known as the Reelfoot Rift, formed 500 million years ago. Existing twenty-five
miles below the surface, seismologists consider it a “failed” rift,
because a successful one would have eventually split the plate. Therefore,
it is actually a zone of seismic activity.” (Stewart and Knox 1995)
It is invisible on the surface. The fault system extends 150 miles southward
from Cairo, Illinois through New Madrid and Caruthersville, Missouri, down
through Blytheville, Arkansas to Marked Tree, Arkansas. It dips into
Kentucky near Fulton and into Tennessee near Reelfoot Lake, and extends southeast
to Dyersburg, Tennessee. It crosses five state lines and crosses the
Mississippi River in at least three places.
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