[Rockhounds] Rock and Roll!!!

[Axel Emmermann]

I have no time, right now, to dig into this.
My club's mineral fair is coming up this weekend and I have to give a
TV-interview on local TV tomorrow... So preparing for both is a handful
;-)))
I do recall, no source... Sorry about that, reading that one of the major
quakes in the NM-SZ caused an upwards thrust of several hundreds of square
miles of terrain of 11 meters.
I would estimate that it would do the trick?
If it happened in Miami you'd have to drive at least an hour to get to the
seashore.
NM is a nasty one ;-)))
 
Axel


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> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] Namens J Bryan Kramer
> Verzonden: dinsdag 22 april 2008 13:15
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> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Rock and Roll!!!
> 
> I have heard that the Mississippi running backward story has 
> been misinterpreted. A new lake was formed and the river 
> water was running into the lake bed to fill it. That made it 
> locally look like it was running backwards.
> 
> BK
> 
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Axel Emmermann 
> <axel.emmermann at pandora.be>
> wrote:
> 
> >  > > I have a couple of questions. What do you think the 
> water in the
> > > > Mississippi did during those 20 seconds?
> > >
> > > It flowed south towards the Gulf of Mexico.
> > >
> >
> > Not always ;-)))
> > On several occasions (during and after 8+ quakes) it seems that the 
> > Mississippi has been running in reverse direction, bypassing bends, 
> > over hundreds of miles and creating lakes and rapids.
> > Church bells rang from the quake in places as far away as 
> Chicago and 
> > Charleston SC.
> > These kind of quakes are massive and of mind-boggling power 
> and occur 
> > every few centuries or so. They can reshape the topology of 
> state-size 
> > regions in a matter of seconds. People don't like to dwell on the 
> > destructive nature of these juggernauts, especially the people that 
> > live between Memphis and St.
> > Louis or around Reelfoot lake.
> >
> > Axel
> >
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